Nutrition: Key To a Shredded Physique

This article isn’t for casual trainees. It’s for those of you that are putting in a serious amount of effort with your training and nutrition. You owe it to yourself to take the 10-15 minutes each week to track your progress seriously, to ensure you get the results you deserve. Without proper tracking data, you […] Read More »

“This is one of the most important articles I’ve ever written. Maybe the most important one in terms of getting this message across to practitioners.” – Alan Aragon It’s my pleasure and honor to share with you this guest article today by mentor and friend, legendary sports nutritionist and researcher, Alan Aragon. Alan opened my eyes […] Read More »

I want to tell you about a powerful tool that often goes neglected among both fitness enthusiasts and people who are just beginning to diet. Imagine that you’re in the following situation: You come home from work. You’re exhausted. You’re hungry. You’ve had a long and stressful day and you just don’t feel like doing anything other […] Read More »

‘To Bulk’ – Gain body weight, with the primary goal of gaining muscle. There is an absence of quality diet advice out there for people trying to bulk. ‘Eat more!’ lacks the detail and finesse to optimize things, ‘Calculate your macros, train hard’ – misses the fundamental point that as we progress, calorie and macronutrient needs change […] Read More »

Lou Schuler is an award-winning fitness journalist and author. Alan Aragon is one of the world’s most influential figures in the modern movement towards evidence-based sports nutrition. They have the best part of 50 years of experience on the right side of this industry between them, and this is their first book collaboration. Knowing the work […] Read More »

You can eat a lot more and maintain most, if not all of your leanness, after dieting. But people screw this up. They either diet blindly without ever thinking how they were going to maintain it, diet too hard for too long and then can’t maintain it, or they mess up a calculation trying to maintain it. When people […] Read More »

There is an idea out there that ‘golden’ macronutrient ratios exist that can transform a person’s physique. The idea was born in bodybuilding forums by people looking at someone else’s body transformation, asking their macro intake, then reverse engineering it to come up with a macro ratio that is assumed to be somehow special. I’m not a fan of this idea. It’s logically flawed and […] Read More »

The purpose of this guide is to offer an easier and more sustainable method to counting your macros than entering every single food and drink you eat, every day, into a nutritional calculator. The trade-off to this is a little more thought up front, but getting this right will potentially make or break your fitness […] Read More »

#1 Calorie Setting, #2 Macro Setting, #3 Micros & Water, #4 Nutrient timing, #5 Supplements Cross your eyes, and imagine the pyramid above is one huge, layer cake and the little red blur at the top is a cherry. Now, if the first four layers are made of mud, shit, snot and sawdust respectively, is […] Read More »

#1 Calorie Setting, #2 Macro Setting, #3 Micros & Water, #4 Nutrient Timing, #5 Supplements It appeals to us that something as simple as changing the timing of things can have a potent effect.  People go mad for any short cut to actually putting in some effort and marketers take advantage of this (flash a […] Read More »