Calorie cycling is a method of calorie distribution that mimics real life. If you’re like most people trying to lose weight, your week probably looks like thisYou eat like a bird Monday to Friday, then eat like a bear on the weekend. Result? The scale doesn’t...
This is by far the most common post I see from frustrated personal trainers and nutrition coaches, in the various Facebook groups and forums I frequent. It typically goes like this: My client is adamant they’re eating X amount of calories (usually a number...
This can be quite a hard concept for people to understand, its not a very intuitive thing to think that building up your muscle mass will help you lose weight, but once you understand the mechanisms of how it works, it’ll make sense. Here are the main ways in...
Intermittent fasting Everyone has heard of this by now. There are many different ways to do IF, probably the most well known is the 5:2 version, which is basically choosing two days per week where you fast. Typically on fasting days, you would only eat 500-600...
If you’ve spent any amount of time reading my blog posts, you will already know that I am big advocate of getting all the nutrients you need from whole food before supplementing. However Vitamin D is one of the 24 critical micronutrients for human survival, so...
To continue seeing optimal progress in your quest for ultimate strength and fitness, you will need to employ recovery strategies. A very simple thing you can do is to add magnesium flakes to your bath. Magnesium is a mineral that has a long list of benefits: Improve...
