BEST NUTRITION ARTICLES

Mindless Eating: How to Make Healthier Choices Without Thinking

Patrick Umphrey / Useful Nutrition Theory

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 »

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 »

‘The Lean Muscle Diet’ – A Detailed Review of Lou Schuler and Alan Aragon’s New Book

Andy Morgan / Nutrition Guides

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 »

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 »

Why The ‘Best Macro Ratio’ Doesn’t Exist

Andy Morgan / Useful Nutrition Theory

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 »

Macro Counting 101: The Comprehensive, No-Nonsense Guide

Andy Morgan / Nutrition Set-up

This visual guide to counting macros will teach you how to build meal plans out of foods that you love. The guide offers 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 just a […] Read More »

How To Set Up Your Diet: #5 Supplements

Andy Morgan / Nutrition Set-up , Nutritional Pyramid of Importance

#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 »

How To Set Up Your Diet: #4 Nutrient Timing & Meal Frequency, Calorie & Macro Cycling

Andy Morgan / Nutrition Set-up , Nutritional Pyramid of Importance

#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 »

How To Set Up Your Diet: #3 Micronutrient Considerations & Water

Andy Morgan / Nutrition Set-up , Nutritional Pyramid of Importance

#1 Calorie Setting, #2 Macro Setting, #3 Micros & Water, #4 Nutrient Timing, #5 Supplements The topic of micronutrition may sound boring but you can’t afford to ignore it. Long-term micronutrient deficiencies will impact your health and torpedo your training efforts. Fortunately it’s doesn’t have to be complicated. By observing a few simple rules of thumb regarding […] Read More »

How To Set Up Your Diet: #2 Macros, Fibre & Alcohol

Andy Morgan / Nutrition Set-up , Nutritional Pyramid of Importance

#1 Calorie Setting, #2 Macro Setting, #3 Micros & Water, #4 Nutrient Timing, #5 Supplements When people in the industry refer to their ‘macros’ they are talking about the three macronutrients: carbohydrate, protein and fat. You may have heard it said that while energy balance determines whether weight is gained or lost, macronutrients determine whether that […] Read More »