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Nowadays it seems like everyone and their brother is starting some sort of health & fitness lifestyle. For many people that is weight loss, but for many, it’s all about the gains. Unfortunately, when it comes to both weight loss and weight gain, the market is saturated with equipment...

About Meal Frequency - When you consume food, your body expends energy to digest and process the nutrients in your diet. This is known as the "thermic effect of food" (TEF) [1, 2]. A common misconception is that you need to consume several smaller meals per day to maximize the thermic effect of...

Screwed up your diet ? Here's a mental hack to get back on track quickly!⭕️⁣ ⁣ It has happened to the best of us the first times we dieted, and it happens very frequently to beginners but also "advanced" dieters!⁣ ⁣ When it comes to losing fat, we know that creating a calorie deficit of around...

Part of the reason why some people find it difficult to make fat loss progress is that they do not feel satisfied after their meals. If this is the case, the first thing I would look into is your calorie-intake. - Regardless of how you design your meals, if your calorie target is extremely low...

It's common for people to think that training with high reps helps you get more "toned" and lean muscles. But targeting a muscle group with higher reps won't increase fat loss in that area. - In one study, the participants trained only 1 leg 3x per week for 12 weeks straight. They gained a good...

We know you need a calorie deficit for fat loss. But one of the most common reasons people struggle with creating a calorie deficit is that they are consuming more calories without knowing. In today's post, I will discuss a few potential fat loss barriers and practical solutions. - First, we...

When fat loss is the goal, many people jump to doing more cardio and reduce the amount of strength training in their routine. This post is a reminder that shows why replacing strength training with tons of cardio is not always a good idea. - Aerobic training has several benefits. But these...

We eat food to fuel physical activity and life. But in this day and age, it's no longer realistic to look at food solely as "fuel" for the body. Food is also part of most cultures and people's social life [1]. To put it in technical terms, we eat food for physiological and psychosocial reasons...

by Matt Weik I was reading an article the other day about a study in the UK where they are trying to have their government enforce a policy that restaurant menus would need to have calorie labels for each item. Their thought process is that if people are aware of how many calories they are...

A calorie surplus is obviously the main driver of a bulking phase, however, how large should this surplus be? A recent review by Slater et al. (2019) uncovered the energy costs associated with building muscle as well as the metabolic adaptations that occur during high calorie dieting plus lean...

The macronutrient content of a meal can influence how many calories you burn throughout the day; this is referred to as, “diet-induced thermogenesis.” While this particular study is a little older, it is well-accepted that higher protein meals will induce greater energy expenditure than high...

Every other day intermittent fasting is an extreme calorie cycling strategy where you lower calories every other day. It can help you lose a lot of fat, however can also cause muscle loss if you aren’t careful. - ⛏Dieting is less likely to cause muscle loss if you have extra fat to lose as...

Why is it that cardio is always the hot topic of fitness discussion and seems to be the fix all solution to burning fat? As we have all learned and I have written about in the past that cardio is not the fix all solution when it comes to body compositional changes anymore. New times have...

Going extra hard in the gym and just eating "whatever" isn't really a great idea if you want to make tangible progress in improving body composition. 😬 -- While exercise is an important part of the energy balance equation, remember that it’s only a tool. Although it may add several hundred...

Do you know what you’re eating? . Macronutrients (Macros for short) are the nutrients that your body uses for fuel. The three main macros are protein, fats and carbs. . To lose fat you need to be in a calorie deficit and to optimally build muscle you need to be in a calorie surplus. That being...

Weight*management always comes down to how many calories you eat versus how many you burn. Fad diets all promise removing every carbohydrate you avoid and replacing it with a grapefruit means you just torch fat away. It's simply not right. For a long time, we assumed 3,500 calories makes up a...

People often associate a shredded physique (low body fat) with strength and athleticism. While you may look like ‘you don't even lift’ with your shirt on, being shredded exudes power and physical prowess when you're bare-chested. __ 🎛But what's going on beneath those carved-up muscles? __ 🔬To...

Most men like to eat, and eat a lot. So it's easy to go too far with a calorie surplus when the focus is on muscle gains. But there's a difference between eating enough to fuel workouts, recovery, and hypertrophy, and eating so much that you just look like a fat guy with decent traps. Big arms...

themusclephd 💥You will likely need to be in a calorie deficit to lose a large amount of fat. This study was for 30 days and found that bodybuilders whom ate at maintenance didn’t lose any fat, however very long term animal studies have found a great difference in body composition when done...

NO, MACROS ARE NOT INTERCHANGABLE! A CALORIE IS NOT A CALORIE IN A DYNAMIC SYSTEM. This is a very short-sighted outlook that seemed to have come in tandem with the "just hit your macros" wave. We have individuals that are extremely loose with their macros, and their only goal is to hit X...