Clarida has a brand new coaching coach for the primary time since John Meadows’ passing
Final up to date on April tenth, 2025
Two-time 212 Olympia champion Shaun Clarida’s coaching routine has been redesigned. He tapped IFBB Professional and former rival John Jewett to run his programming for the remainder of the 2025 season, a daring transfer he believes will repay on the 2025 212 Olympia.
I’ve discovered the fitting particular person. He’s harking back to John Meadows.
—Shaun Clarida
Jewett is Clarida’s first coaching coach in seven years since working with the late John Meadows. “Lots has modified,” Clarida shared. With time to get better after putting seventh on the 2025 Arnold Classic Males’s Open contest, “The Big Killer” is ditching his instinctual exercise tendencies for a extra concrete philosophy.
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Excessive Quantity and Restoration
Whereas Clarida clawed his approach to success with no coach for years, he instructed the change may give him new life atop the title image, the place he’s struggled the previous two Olympias to beat Keone Pearson’s density, and conditioning.
The change of tempo and concentrate on restoration has already yielded outcomes three weeks in, as Clarida said, “My physique is slowly getting stronger, greater, and my numbers are going up on the gymnasium.” Extra units equal better time under tension to capitalize on progressive overload features. (1)
Along with the next set volume, Clarida mentioned Jewett places extra inventory into basic actions slightly than stunning the system with six or seven totally different workout routines. It interprets into shorter gym sessions. Clarida finishes exercises in an hour as an alternative of virtually two.
I’m getting right into a groove.
—Shaun Clarida
Jewett’s system contains Clarida conserving a coaching journal to log his lifts and progress, which they imagine would be the distinction in his coaching trajectory.
Bodybuilding is commonly thought of a person sport, however a well-balanced crew is likelier to garner success on the highest degree of competitors. Clarida’s nutrition and supplementation stay captained by Stefan Kienzl. With Jewett by his facet, Clarida’s optimistic he may carry a brand new look to the 2025 Mr. Olympia, scheduled for October 9-12 in Las Vegas, NV.
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Reference
- Bernárdez-Vázquez R, Raya-González J, Castillo D, Beato M. Resistance Coaching Variables for Optimization of Muscle Hypertrophy: An Umbrella Evaluation. Entrance Sports activities Act Residing. 2022 Jul 4;4:949021. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2022.949021. PMID: 35873210; PMCID: PMC9302196. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9302196/
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