Posts in "Making Adjustments"

How to Know if Keto is Right for You

Eric Helms, Andy Morgan and Andrea Valdez / Making Adjustments , Muscle and Strength Pyramid Book Excerpts , Nutrition Guides

As part of the promotion for our newly released Muscle and Strength Pyramid books, we’ve decided to take ~5 sections from each and release them as articles. Each one of these articles won’t be for everyone, but I hope you find them interesting, and at least two or three exceptionally useful. For the first one, […] Read More »

Tracking Progress Is Essential – Here’s How to Do It Right

Andy Morgan / Making Adjustments , Nutrition Set-up

If you are putting in a serious amount of effort with your training and nutrition, you owe it to yourself to take the ten extra minutes each week to track your progress seriously. This will help ensure you get the results you deserve. I’d go as far as to say it’s the biggest differentiator between […] Read More »

How to Adjust Your Diet to Successfully Bulk Without Getting Fat

Andy Morgan / Making Adjustments

‘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 »

How to Find Maintenance Calorie Intake After Dieting

Andy Morgan / Making Adjustments

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 »

How to Implement Diet Breaks to Get Shredded Lean

Andy Morgan / Making Adjustments

A diet break is a planned and purposeful break from dieting, anything from one day, up to two weeks. I get all of my clients to take them, as they help prepare them psychologically and physiologically for the next phase of dieting. Adherence is easier, results are better, skip implementing them to your own peril. Everyone […] Read More »

How to Make Adjustments as You Diet to Keep Progressing

Andy Morgan / Making Adjustments

In the previous article, we covered Why You Need To Make Adjustments as You Diet. This is the guide on how to do it. Your diet progress has slowed or come to a stop for 2-3 weeks, diet adherence has been good, you’re sleeping well and there is no additional stress at home or work. So […] Read More »

Why You Need to Make Adjustments to Your Macros as You Diet

Andy Morgan / Making Adjustments

Online macro calculators don’t work – they just provide a starting point from which to work from. So you’ve gone to an online macro calculator, plugged your all your relevant information, out pops a couple of sets of macros for your rest and training days and you proceed happily on your diet. Then, some weeks […] Read More »