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Dr. Ashley Dwyer joins Tim Riley to break down how chronic underfueling and overtraining wreck your hormones, what the polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) diagnosis changes about previous PCOS treatment, and what creatine benefits for women actually look like in practice.

Ashley Dwyer went from retail pharmacy to NPC bodybuilding to complete hormonal burnout before she hit 30. Every specialist she saw handed her a prescription instead of asking one question about how she was training or eating. Sound familiar?

Tim and Ashley dig into the real mechanics behind HPA axis dysfunction and thyroid suppression, signs of endocrine burnout that most athletes brush off as just being tired, and why your labs can say "normal" while your body is running on fumes. They cover the four distinct subtypes of PMOS, why carbs and cortisol have a direct relationship your coach probably never explained, and what a legitimate reverse dieting after bodybuilding show protocol actually looks like when it is done right.

If you or someone you coach is under-eating, overtrained, and wondering why nothing is working, this episode has the answers. Subscribe to never miss another episode!

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:55 - College Football and Weight Room Culture

00:07:55 - Retail Pharmacy Life

00:11:15 - NPC Bodybuilding, Orthorexia, and Undereating

00:15:40 - Endocrine Collapse and Conventional Medicine Failures

00:23:00 - Underfueling in Athletes and the Female Athlete Triad

00:28:53 - HPA, HPT, and HPG Axes

00:34:30 - Down-Regulation and Intuitive Eating

00:40:00 - Clinical Intake Process and Reverse Dieting Protocol

00:46:40 - PCOS Reclassified as PMOS and Western Medicine Shortcomings

00:52:15 - The Three Root Drivers of PMOS

00:58:30 - Supplements vs. Foundations

01:04:22 - Three Things, Rant and Rave, and Alternate Careers

01:10:10 - Overrated vs. Underrated and Unsolicited Advice

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Tim Riley and Zack Zillner are back in the Austin studio for a full Q&A episode covering strength and conditioning coach salary debates, NCAA 20-hour rule logistics, shin splints, eccentric quasi-isometrics, AI in programming, NIL culture, and whether Tim could survive a bear fight.

Zack breaks down the operational reality of the NCAA 8-hour off-season rule and the full 20-hour in-season window, and explains why sport skill execution will always beat weight room numbers when practice time is limited. Tim reflects on private sector coaching ethics: when an athlete is already buried under school practices, an extra meal often does more than another squat session.

Q&A covers how to build work capacity, why eccentric quasi-isometrics are mostly social media noise, meathead hypertrophy as connective tissue insurance, sleep tracking anxiety and its effect on athletic performance, in-person coaching requirements before going online, AI tools like Relay for programming templates, NIL and transfer portal impact on athlete work ethic, low-tech athlete monitoring tools, and bucket list podcast guests.

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00:00:00 - Bear Fight Cold Open

00:00:32 - Happy Birthday Zack!

00:03:14 - NCAA 20-Hour Rule Breakdown

00:07:29 - Weight Room vs. Court Time Tug-of-War

00:14:05 - Private Sector Coaching

00:18:05 - Strength and Conditioning Coach Salary Debate

00:37:52 - In-Person Coaching Before Online Coaching

00:44:30 - Managing Shin Splints in Sprint Training

00:47:16 - Debunking Eccentric Quasi-Isometrics

00:51:10 - Meathead Hypertrophy vs. Sport-Specific Training

00:53:37 - How to Find Your Coaching Style

00:57:00 - How to Build Work Capacity

00:58:19 - Sleep Tracking Anxiety and Athletic Performance

01:02:20 - Bucket List Podcast Guests

01:08:04 - Advice for International Coaches Interning in the U.S.

01:09:42 - Biggest Challenges in Basketball Strength and Conditioning

01:12:43 - AI for Strength and Conditioning Programming

01:17:36 - NIL and Transfer Portal Impact on Athlete Work Ethic

01:23:08 - Low-Tech Athlete Monitoring Tools

01:27:07 - Bear Fight Simulation

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Tim Riley goes solo on the Coach Em Up Podcast for a Q&A covering apex competition rules, sprint training for beginners, OCD diagnosis, sobriety, and much more. He shares combine stories, his biggest coaching blunders, and why carbs are still the OG performance enhancer.

He breaks down the viral Hyrox biohazard incident in Beijing and uses it to set the record straight on Apex competition health policy. Then he rewinds to age 26, no car, no phone, no money, walking to his first training job out of a Florida halfway house, and explains how he became the person he is today.

On the business side, Tim talks about how watching physical therapist David Gray build ethical, high-value content convinced him to post consistently and eventually launch Cheat Code, open his own gym, and build Apex from the ground up. He shares his rules for hiring new coaches, the real reason Apex does not use weight classes, and his 2026-2027 expansion targets.

Tim walks through how to improve broad jump mechanics with the Blaine Broad progression, covers sprint training for beginners with a slow-to-fast, low-impact-first framework, and shares his experience training Xavier Worthy. He also recounts two genuinely catastrophic coaching mistakes involving a plyo box and a Swiss ball on a treadmill.

The back half of the episode goes personal. Tim opens up about his OCD diagnosis and how Exposure and Response Prevention therapy finally gave him tools that worked. He also reflects on fatherhood, egocentric bias, and what it actually means to live instead of just survive.

This is a strength and conditioning podcast that does not stay in its lane. That is the point.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:28 - The Hyrox poop incident

00:10:32 - Advice to his 26-year-old self and early sobriety

00:14:48 - Finding venues for Apex and expansion hurdles

00:18:11 - Building influence, business ethics, and launching Apex

00:29:52 - How to improve your broad jump

00:32:49 - Scaling brands and rules for hiring coaches

00:37:13 - Game speed vs weightroom skill

00:40:46 - Biggest coaching mistakes

00:50:11 - Sprint training for beginners

00:54:08 - Apex 2026-2027 road map and international expansion

01:01:38 - Stepping back from full-time client training

01:06:01 - Why Apex does not have weight classes

01:10:41 - Unsolicited advice, lying, and egocentric bias

01:18:20 - Pure OCD diagnosis and Exposure Response Prevention therapy

01:29:11 - Carbs for athletic performance, fatherhood, anxiety

01:37:27 - Managing career transitions and embracing uncertainty

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