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Jack Radford-Smith
April 27, 2024

The Secret Weapon of Bodybuilding Champions: Unleash Your Grit

Jack Radford-Smith
April 27, 2024

The secret weapon of bodybuilding champions!

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Jack Radford-Smith
April 27, 2024

6 Hunger Hacks You NEED to Know: Stop Food Fixation and Manage Cravings

Jack Radford-Smith
April 27, 2024

Managing hunger encompasses more than just resisting the temptation to eat.

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Jack Radford-Smith
April 6, 2024

Forget Fad Diets: The 4 Core Nutritional Principles You NEED for Success

Jack Radford-Smith
April 6, 2024

Forget the fads and quick fixes that dominate social media. Continued success comes from prioritising core nutritional principles that will establish a strong foundation in achieving your heath and fitness goals!

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 26, 2024

2025’s Best Supplements for Muscle Growth and Strength

Jack Radford-Smith
March 26, 2024

When it comes to A-listed ergogenic aids, these two supplements are top of the list.

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Jack Radford-Smith
March 6, 2024

How To Calculate Your Macros (Protein, Carbs, Fat & Fibre)

Jack Radford-Smith
March 6, 2024

Your step-by-step guide to macro math!

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Jack Radford-Smith
February 20, 2024

Stop Fearing Gluten, Dairy & Fruit

Jack Radford-Smith
February 20, 2024

The quality of a diet isn’t determined by what you exclude... but rather the variety of foods that you choose to INCLUDE!

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Jack Radford-Smith
February 17, 2024

8 Nutrition Facts Everyone Should Know

Jack Radford-Smith
February 17, 2024

Don’t be in the dark, in denial, or oblivious to the consequences certain choices have and how they will influence your progress long-term.

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Jack Radford-Smith
February 17, 2024

Your Guide To Ab Training (Six Pack Abs)

Jack Radford-Smith
February 17, 2024

Abdominal training involves more than a few sets of bodyweight crunches at the end of your session. Check out the tips in this article to more effectively grow your “six pack muscles” (rectus abdominis):

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Jack Radford-Smith
February 17, 2024

4 Simple High Protein Meals (Dietitian Approved)

Jack Radford-Smith
February 17, 2024

Reaching your total protein intake is an essential aspect for maximising muscle growth!

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Jack Radford-Smith
February 17, 2024

Things Not To Say To Bodybuilders

Jack Radford-Smith
February 17, 2024

Let’s teach other’s how to better understand and verbally support the athletes in our community and put an end to the insults!

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How Fast Should You Bulk? A Training-Age Guide to the Right Rate of Gain

The right rate of gain during a bulk depends on training age, current body composition, and how close you are to your genetic ceiling. A guide to matching the pace to the person, with specific monthly gain targets for beginners (1 to 1.5 percent of bodyweight per month), intermediates (0.75 to 1 percent), and advanced lifters (approximately 0.5 percent) at common body weights, plus the specific failure modes when the pace is miscalibrated for training age.

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Strength Training and Longevity: What Lifting Does Beyond Building Muscle

Strength training is one of the most underrated health interventions available. A walk through the specific outcomes it influences beyond aesthetics and muscle gain, including approximately 15 to 20 percent lower all-cause mortality risk (up to 40 percent when combined with aerobic exercise), preserved muscle mass across the aging curve, increased bone mineral density at the spine and hip, better balance and mobility with reduced fall risk, improved insulin sensitivity and metabolic health, and sustained independence into later life.

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A Practical Food List for Every Macro | Carbs, Protein, Fat, and Mixed Sources

A practical food reference list grouped by macronutrient contribution: carbohydrate-primary foods, protein-primary foods, fat-primary foods, and the mixed sources that contribute to more than one macro at once. Use this as a quick lookup for building macro variety across every food group, whether cooking at home, eating out, travelling, or adjusting a meal without overthinking every ingredient.

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Why Your Gaining Phases Keep Failing | The Cycle That Cuts Bulks Short

Why do so many lifters spend years in the gym without building meaningful muscle? A guide to the self-reinforcing cycle where fear of fat gain repeatedly cuts the gaining phase short before muscle actually builds, the psychological asymmetries that drive premature phase termination, and what a productive gaining phase actually requires in terms of surplus size, duration, and tracking approach.

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Can You Take Bodybuilding Seriously and Still Have Balance?

Balance in bodybuilding rarely looks like a 50/50 split, and it doesn't need to. A 90/10 framing that lets a high standard in the sport coexist with the rest of life, with practical examples across training, nutrition, sleep, and social events, and guidance on how the ratio shifts across improvement seasons, contest prep, and different competitive levels.

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Know Your Macros | How Protein, Carbs, and Fats Distribute Across Common Foods

Almost every food carries all three macronutrients, not just one. A visual reference showing how protein, carbohydrate, and fat actually distribute across common protein sources, carbohydrate sources, and fat sources, with the practical implications for building meals around specific calorie and macro targets. The article covers ten common protein sources, thirteen carbohydrate sources, and twelve fat sources across three stacked bar charts, with guidance on matching source selection to fat loss, muscle gain, and general dietary variety.

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How Many Calories Should You Eat? Why the Answer Is More Individual Than You Think

Two people with the same height, weight, age, and gender can have calorie requirements that differ by 1,000 or more calories per day. A walk through the six variables that shape individual maintenance, why comparison charts and calculators tend to miss the mark, and how to identify your own maintenance more accurately than any equation can through 2 to 4 weeks of personal tracking data.

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Post-Workout Nutrition for Lifters: How to Structure the Peri-Workout Window

The anabolic window has been softened considerably by the research, but the meal around training remains a genuinely valuable opportunity to refuel and get quality nutrition into the day. A practical guide to structuring the six-hour peri-workout window, the protein and carbohydrate targets that support recovery, the plate-building principles that apply to the post-workout meal, and the specific exception cases where speed of digestion genuinely matters.

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The Most Satiating Foods per 100g: A Protein and Fibre Density Chart

Foods that combine meaningful protein and fibre content per 100 grams tend to contribute more to daily satiety than foods that provide very little of either. This is a visual map of common foods plotted by their protein and fibre density, grouped by food category, showing where each sits on both variables and how to use the pattern to inform food selection during fat loss, muscle gain, and general dieting.

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How to Manage Hunger During Contest Prep: A Practical Guide for Competitors

Hunger is inevitable during a contest prep, and the competitors who manage it well tend to accept it as a condition of the sport rather than an emergency. A practical guide covering satiety strategies, the distinction between hunger and food focus, meal structure across a twelve to twenty week deficit, and the specific patterns that make prep harder than it needs to be.

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Everything Worth Knowing About Creatine: Muscle, Brain, and Practical Use

Creatine monohydrate has the deepest evidence base of any performance supplement, with consistent effects on strength, power, and lean mass alongside emerging research on cognitive function and mental fatigue resistance. A complete guide to how creatine works, how to dose it for physical and cognitive benefits, what the water retention actually represents, and why monohydrate remains the recommended form.

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Why Your Tracking App's Calorie and Macro Totals Don't Line Up

The calorie total and the sum of the macros in a tracking app rarely add up to the same number. A guide to the five reasons behind the discrepancy (user-generated entries, rounding, Atwater factor variability, calorie versus kilojoule precision, and hidden energy contributors like sugar alcohols and alcohol) and when the difference actually matters across different phases of training and dieting.

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The Five-Part Meal Framework for Training, Recovery, and Body Composition

Meals can hit macros and still fall short on fibre, food variety, vegetable portioning, fat source rotation, and micronutrient adequacy. A five-part meal framework for lifters and physique athletes that addresses the quality variables macro tracking misses, with four worked examples showing how the framework applies across different meal styles.

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