Jack Radford-Smith

January 9, 2025

Unconventional Tips For Bodybuilding Success

Jack Radford-Smith

January 9, 2025

Improving as a physique athlete and successfully pursuing the sport of bodybuilding requires far more than just nailing your daily training and nutrition.

If you want to thoroughly enjoy your journey and achieve more than just a muscular physique then it’s important to strive for overall self-improvement!

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Body Recomposition Guide | How to Build Muscle and Lose Fat at the Same Time

Body recomposition, building muscle and losing fat simultaneously, is more achievable than most people realise and slower than most content suggests. A dietitian explains who it works for, how to structure it, and how to track progress when the scale is barely moving.

The Best High Fibre Foods: Ranked by Fibre Content and Calories

Fifteen whole foods ranked by fibre and calorie content per 100 grams, with data from the Australian Food Composition Database and practical guidance on hitting daily fibre targets across different dietary goals.

How Hard Should You Train? Using RPE and RIR to Guide Your Sets

RPE and reps in reserve are practical tools for quantifying how close to failure a set is, giving coaches and athletes a shared language for prescribing and monitoring training intensity. A guide to the scale, where most sets should land, and why accuracy improves with experience.

The Nutritional Consequences of Excluding Food Groups From Your Diet

Excluding a food group removes a cluster of nutrients that are often difficult to replace. A dietitian examines the evidence on dairy, grains, fruit, lean animal protein, and vegetables, and explains what each exclusion actually costs nutritionally.

The Health Risks of Visceral Fat and the Evidence on How to Lower It

Visceral fat surrounds your internal organs and influences insulin sensitivity, lipid metabolism, and cardiovascular risk in ways that subcutaneous fat does not. A dietitian explains what drives its accumulation and what the evidence shows about reducing it.

Eight Practical Ways to Make Fat Loss Easier and More Sustainable

Fat loss requires a calorie deficit, but the variables that determine whether that deficit is sustainable go well beyond food intake alone. Eight practical strategies covering daily movement, food selection, sleep, meal timing, and life context.

Daily Macro Targets for Muscle Gain, Fat Loss, and Training Performance

A practical breakdown of evidence-based protein, carbohydrate, fat, and fibre targets, and how to adjust each one sensibly depending on whether you are building, dieting, or maintaining.

Nine Nutrition Realities That Change How You Approach Training and Diet

Nine evidence-based nutrition principles that cut through the noise of fitness industry messaging: from fasted training and superfood marketing to realistic muscle gain timelines and the supplements that actually matter.

Four Supplements Worth Taking: A Dietitian's Evidence-Based Guide

The four supplements actually worth taking for lifters and active individuals: omega-3, vitamin D3, creatine monohydrate, and magnesium glycinate. A dietitian explains the evidence, dosing, form selection, and timing for each one.

Is Bodybuilding Unhealthy? The Risks, Benefits, and What Determines the Outcome

Is bodybuilding unhealthy? A dietitian's honest, evidence-based assessment of the risks and benefits of physique sport, covering predisposing factors, the health spectrum, common misconceptions, and practical steps to minimise harm.

The Five Most Common Nutrient Deficiencies for Lifters and How to Fix Them

The five nutrient deficiencies most commonly seen in active individuals: iron, vitamin D, magnesium, calcium, and iodine. A dietitian explains why each one matters, who is most at risk, the best food sources, and when supplementation is worth considering.

Fibre Efficiency Ranked: Which Foods Deliver the Most Fibre Per Calorie

A visual ranking of 20 common whole foods by fibre efficiency, showing which foods deliver the most fibre per calorie and how to use this information to build a higher-fibre diet without overshooting your calorie budget.

Vitamin D Explained: Benefits, Dosing, and What the Evidence Actually Shows

A dietitian's evidence-stratified guide to vitamin D covering its role in hormones, immunity, muscle function, and bone health, along with practical guidance on dosing, timing, and supplementation for lifters and physique-focused individuals.