TROPONINIQ / COURSES ANNOUNCED / COURSE 02

The complete system for taking a bodybuilder from off-season to stage-ready.

Troponin Contest Prep System

Start 16 weeks out. Follow the system. Step onstage conditioned, peaked, posed, and ready to win.

EDUCATIONAL ONLY / NOT MEDICAL ADVICE / CHECKOUT DISABLED UNTIL PREFLIGHT PASSES

The 16-week prep timeline — Foundation, Acceleration, Precision, and Peak phases, with decision gates at weeks 12 / 8 / 4

The diet system built maintenance-down: deficit, calorie floor, carb cycling, and the six-meal template

Cardio as the second lever — HIIT vs. LISS, steps and NEAT, and how cardio ramps without outrunning recovery

16-week system map

Prep is a sequence, not a panic button.

The scaffold organizes the course around the decisions a competitor has to make from 16 weeks out through show day and the post-show transition.

16-13 weeks out

Setup and baseline control

Start condition, maintenance context, food structure, cardio baseline, check-in standards, and the first adjustment rules.

12-9 weeks out

Fat-loss pressure escalation

Food pulls, cardio progression, fatigue readings, stimulant education, and the decisions that keep prep moving.

8-6 weeks out

Hardening phase

The serious conditioning block: visual feedback, lower-body detail, fatigue pressure, and compliance discipline.

5-3 weeks out

Final push or ready-early transition

How to decide whether to keep pressing or create room to stabilize, fill out, and present better.

2 weeks out

Stabilization

Reduce noise, manage digestion, lock posing, and stop chasing changes that should have been made earlier.

10 days out through show day

Peak week and execution

Water, sodium, fullness, dryness, training, tanning, backstage timing, and final 72-hour decisions.

Post-show

Recovery and rebound control

Food reintroduction, cardio reduction, health restoration, and the transition into the next offseason.

Curriculum

18 lecture-course modules.

18 lectures · 4+ hours · the full contest-prep operating system — diet, cardio, training, peak week, and show-day execution — plus a 484-page companion textbook.

L00
Start Here
Course orientation: how the system fits together, how to use it for your timeline, and the five-layer conditioning model everything else builds on.
17 min
L01
Offseason Exit Strategy
Why prep starts in the off-season: leanness thresholds, maintenance calories, training and cardio baselines, health markers, and the pre-prep readiness checklist.
15 min
L02
Contest Prep Theory
The five layers of conditioning — fat loss, hardness, dryness, fullness, stage readiness — and the flat-vs-fat diagnosis that drives every prep decision.
11 min
L03
The 16-Week Prep Timeline
Foundation → Acceleration → Precision → Peak. The weekly check-in loop, decision gates at weeks 12 / 8 / 4, and what runs in parallel.
14 min
L04
The Diet System
Built maintenance-down: setting the deficit, the calorie floor, macros, carb cycling, the six-meal template, and moving the diet through prep.
14 min
L05
The Cardio System
Cardio is the second lever — HIIT vs. LISS, the 50,000-step floor, low-insulin timing, and the phase ramp that never outruns recovery.
13 min
L06
Training During Prep
Retention, not overload. Keep intensity, trim volume, protect joints late, and land the plane into peak week.
13 min
L07
The Supplement System
The last 5%: protein and creatine non-negotiables, the intra-workout shake, gut health, fat-loss support, and what is a waste of money.
15 min
L08
Enhanced Athlete / PED Education
Mechanism-first education on the enhanced reality of the sport — compound classes, the anabolic-to-androgenic shift, bloodwork monitoring, and honest cost. Education, never prescription.
14 min
L09
The Posing System
Presentation wins shows. The seven mandatories mechanism by mechanism, quarter turns, routine building, and posing as a training variable.
14 min
L10
The Peak Week System
Principles, not a formula: the two-phase model, the water-sodium mechanism, carb loading, compound timing, and reading your own look.
16 min
L11
Tanning, Skin & Presentation
The final layer between your conditioning and the judge: skin prep, base-tan layering, stage lighting, and oils without the glaze.
19 min
L12
Show Day Execution
Hour by hour from wake-up to finals: eat to the look, the backstage bag, the pump-up, and protecting the work instead of rebuilding it.
17 min
L13
Post-Show Recovery
The rebound is the most leveraged eight weeks of the year — the 36-hour window, the controlled reverse, the hormonal picture, and the new higher baseline.
16 min
L14
Contest Prep Solutions Manual
The troubleshooting manual: symptom → cause → fix for stalled fat loss, crashed strength, flat-vs-soft, unexplained water, digestion, and more.
16 min
L15
SuperTrop Prompt Library
Ready-to-paste prompts for TroponinIQ — weekly check-ins, stalled-loss audits, peak-week daily reads, and show-day decisions.
11 min
L16
Tools & Checklists
The printable layer: pre-prep readiness, standing trackers, weekly check-in, decision gates, peak-week worksheet, show-day timeline, rebound checklist.
15 min
L17
Case Studies
Five composite athletes running the whole system end to end — first-timer, started-too-fat, pro qualifier, enhanced athlete, and the great rebound.
13 min

Included

Built as a course scaffold first.

The first release keeps the implementation conservative: seed data, public landing, catalog visibility, KB awareness, and preflight support. Media, checkout, Firestore enrichment, and SuperTrop retrieval come later.

16-week contest prep timeline

Diet, cardio, training, posing, supplement, and peak week systems

Contest Prep Solutions Manual for troubleshooting

SuperTrop prompt library for check-ins and prep questions

Who this is for

Competitive bodybuilders who want the full operating system behind a pro-level prep
Coaches who need a structured, teachable framework for taking clients to the stage
First-time competitors who want to do their first prep right instead of learning by failing
Enhanced and natural athletes alike — the PED education module is educational, never prescriptive

SuperTrop integration later

This scaffold creates the public course surface and KB awareness only. Future phases can add lesson-specific prompt templates, course-grounded retrieval, check-in prompts, and peak-week prompt libraries after the course shell is stable.

Peak week / show day

Conditioned first. Peaked second.

The course positioning keeps peak week in context: final 72-hour decisions matter, but only after the athlete has actually completed the fat-loss and presentation work required to be stage ready.

FAQ

Launch state and scope.

How is this different from Elite PED Protocols?

Elite PED Protocols is a pharmacology education course. The Contest Prep System is the complete prep operating system — diet, cardio, training, posing, peak week, and show-day execution. The PED module inside this course is educational context; the deep pharmacology lives in Elite PED Protocols. Serious competitors often take both.

Can I buy just the textbook?

Yes. The 484-page companion textbook is available standalone as the Contest Prep System Ebook for $199 — a downloadable PDF with all 18 chapters. The complete $499 course includes the textbook, the video lectures, audio versions, slides, and the printable tools.

Is this for enhanced athletes only?

No. The system is built around diet, cardio, training, and presentation — the levers that decide every prep. One module covers the enhanced-athlete reality as education, never prescription, and the rest of the course applies equally to natural competitors.

Is this medical advice?

No. This is educational material. It is not a prescription and is not a substitute for a licensed physician. The PED education module explains mechanisms and concepts — it never provides sourcing or individualized protocols.

Can I download the videos?

No. All lecture video, audio, and lecture text streams in-app on TroponinIQ.com only. The companion textbook is the one downloadable asset, included with your purchase.

I have a show coming up. How fast can I use this?

The course is organized as a countdown — Start Here, then the off-season exit, then the 16-week timeline module maps every phase to your show date. The troubleshooting manual and tools modules are built to be used mid-prep, the day a problem shows up.

Is there a refund policy?

No — all sales are final. The course is delivered digitally with instant access to every lecture and the downloadable textbook, so purchases cannot be refunded. Watch the free preview lecture before enrolling to make sure it is right for you.

Do SuperTrop / CoachIQ subscribers get a discount?

Yes. Active subscribers see a 20% subscriber discount applied automatically at checkout.

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