Structural Balance Theory: Does your Butt Care about your Biceps? [$]
Everything that sucks is good for you. That’s what our intuition tells us. Give someone a piece of food that tastes disgusting and tell them it’s really good for them. They’ll take your word for it....
View ArticleWeight Loss: Fast or Slow? [$]
There’s a reason there are no fat fitness models. Even if you have a chest so massive it puts Schwarzenegger’s to shame, if your gut sticks out further than your chest, the image is ruined. So whether...
View ArticlePartial vs. Full Reps… or Both?
A potentially game changing study has just been published. It may change how you perform your exercises forever. Or it may not. Let’s have a look. The study titled “the efficacy of incorporating...
View ArticleThe Bayesian Bodybuilding Method
This is an interview with First Call Out. It’s 18 minutes long. We interviewed Menno Henselmans to discuss how he combined a scientific, or rather an evidence-based approach, of dieting & nutrition...
View ArticleThe Future of Bayesian Bodybuilding II
As usual, most of what I’ve done in the past months has stayed under the radar. So here’s a short overview of the 7 most important things I’ve been working on. Aside from coaching clients full-time....
View Article60 Minutes on Everything Bodybuilding [Interview]
Want to hear Ian McCarthy picking my brain on all sorts of random topics? Here you go, an hour long interview by Ian McCarthy about a wide variety of bodybuilding topics. The start of the interview...
View Article3 Reasons Your Calves Aren’t Growing
What do Steve Reeves, John Grimek and Reg Park have in common? A) They were all beasts of aesthetic masculinity. B) I don’t know any of them. C) They all had nearly perfectly proportionate calf...
View ArticleAdvanced Bayesian Bodybuilding Techniques
Autoregulatory Volume Training, muscle-specific hypertrophy, genetic assessment by body part, those are some of the more advanced concepts I apply in my program design. In this interview by Armi Legge...
View ArticlePhenibut: The Soviet smart drug
1963, St.Petersburg, Russia – A Soviet Union lab scientist by the name of Perekalin synthesizes 3-phenyl-4-aminobutyric acid, an experimental drug intended to calm psychiatric children. 1964 –...
View Article3 Reasons rows are an inferior exercise for your lats
Ian McCarthy invited me to write a short guest post for his page. Here it is. Post by No Bullshit Bodybuilding.
View ArticleThe high carb bodybuilding dogma [interview]
In this interview by Primal Edge Health, we discuss: – The use of ketogenic diets for bodybuilders. – The need for carbohydrates during resistance training. – The importance of meal frequency. – Fat...
View ArticleCarbs vs. fat research update
It’s not often that revolutionary research comes around, but at the Eleventh International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) Conference and Expo I think it’s safe to say some interesting science was...
View ArticleThe Alar Scare: A lesson from history
In early 1989, the NRDC released a report on Alar, a chemical used to harvest apples. The report estimated that Alar caused cancer and children were at greater risk. This report was based on a...
View ArticleThe natural muscular potential of women
What can you achieve as a female lifter? There seem to be only 2 camps. The general public thinks a woman that touches a loaded barbell will wake up the next day as the SheHulk. People with a bit...
View Article9 Reasons why women should not train like men
Since my article on the natural muscular potential of women went viral with over 9000 Likes and hundreds of shares across social media, my inbox has been flooded with the question “How should women...
View ArticleWhy diets fail and ‘Eat Less, Move More’ is bad advice
It’s safe to say obesity is a problem. Over 2 out of 3 people in the US are overweight and over 1 in 3 is obese. Even with help, most people don’t lose more than a few percent bodyweight after years of...
View ArticleRefeeds, body recomposition and non-linear dieting
Sigma Nutrition Radio interviewed me on the following topics. Refeeds Body recomposition: can you build muscle and lose fat at the same time? Carb cycling Science and Bayesian thinking Circadian...
View ArticleSugar – The Sweet Truth
There are only 2 things that every nutritionist in the world seems to agree on (and we know everyone is a nutritionist these days). Vegetables are good and sugar is bad. But things aren’t so black and...
View ArticleBayesian Bodybuilding meets AesirSports
This interview by AesirSports was more personal than most of the ones I’ve done before. It also includes an update on Cybernetic Fitness. Read the full interview
View ArticleState of the fitness industry, carbs vs. fat, metabolic damage [Interview]
Primal Edge Health interviewed me about the current state of the fitness industry, carbs vs. fat, metabolic damage, veganism and diet pitfalls. I think we go off-topic a few times, but in between the...
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