The Improvement Season Podcast
Jul 23, 2026 · 35 min · 13 segments
Join Magic Mike and Steve Hall as they share personal updates, training insights, and travel preparations in this engaging episode. They discuss resilience, training progress, travel logistics, and…
Anyway, what was I saying? So I'm hot and feeling a little bit like on edge, but generally pretty good.
And yeah, I'm just, I know I need to eat more for my scale weight to go up and I'm just not bothered at all.
I think I'll end up coming back from this trip, like five pounds lighter or something, which then will put me very like 10 pounds above stage weight or something ridiculous like that.
But anyway, yeah, I think it's a combination of the heat is killing my appetite a little bit and then being well recovered from prep and having been in a gaining phase so long and then just being a body composition my body is very comfortable with.
But it's weird to think my croats that you know I love, I just have not been looking forward to eating them particularly at all.
Whereas I couldn't remember, there was a longest time I was like post-workout, I was like,
yeah, I
Yeah, I guess I shoveled this down and I'm like, I should change this to something a little bit easier to eat.
But I'm just like, you know, and you can't be bothered to change what you're eating.
I don't know if you have any thoughts on it, but then update me on how you're doing.
Yeah, no, I had a first thought on, it's kind of with that, like those little things that test your like calmness.
It kind of just again made me think of like when you're in the gym and it's just like maybe that extra rep or that extra set that is just kind of... it's just building your resilience almost and comes back to, well, it's not exactly the same, but that kind of pressure is privilege.
Anyway, what was I saying? So I'm hot and feeling a little bit like on edge, but generally pretty good.
And yeah, I'm just, I know I need to eat more for my scale weight to go up and I'm just not bothered at all.
I think I'll end up coming back from this trip, like five pounds lighter or something, which then will put me very like 10 pounds above stage weight or something ridiculous like that.
But anyway, yeah, I think it's a combination of the heat is killing my appetite a little bit and then being well recovered from prep and having been in a gaining phase so long and then just being a body composition my body is very comfortable with.
But it's weird to think my croats that you know I love, I just have not been looking forward to eating them particularly at all.
Whereas I couldn't remember, there was a longest time I was like post-workout, I was like,
yeah, I
Yeah, I guess I shoveled this down and I'm like, I should change this to something a little bit easier to eat.
But I'm just like, you know, and you can't be bothered to change what you're eating.
I don't know if you have any thoughts on it, but then update me on how you're doing.
Yeah, no, I had a first thought on, it's kind of with that, like those little things that test your like calmness.
It kind of just again made me think of like when you're in the gym and it's just like maybe that extra rep or that extra set that is just kind of... it's just building your resilience almost and comes back to, well, it's not exactly the same, but that kind of pressure is privilege.
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