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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Bodybuilding success isn’t solely defined by your placing.

In bodybuilding, your placing tells only part of the story. Success isn’t dictated solely by medals or stage photos, it’s deeply personal, internal, and often invisible to

You’re probably leaving nutrients on the table (literally) by not eating the right foods together.

Nutrition isn’t only about hitting macros or calories, nutrient synergy also has a role to play. This is an often undervalued concept in t

Don’t let your diet turn to junk just because you’re bulking, or starve of nutrients just because you’re cutting.

One of the most overlooked aspects of bodybuilding nutrition is how food quality shifts when calorie targets change.

Comp prep isn’t meant to break you, but it will challenge you.

There’s a common misconception that the tougher your prep feels, the “better” it must be. But the reality is that extreme restriction, endless cardio, and chasing

Want to add years to your life? Stop overlooking the importance of fibre.

Dietary fibre does far more than just “keep you regular.” Research from large-scale cohort studies (100,000–500,000+ participants, 10–15+ year follow-u

Magnesium is one of the most underrated minerals for driving performance, recovery, and longevity.

Magnesium doesn’t get the spotlight that creatine or Vitamin D do, but it quietly underpins over 300 enzymatic reactions in the body. Yet despit

Cutting water in peak week is one of the fastest ways to ruin your stage look. Yet it’s still one of the most common “hacks” competitors fall for.

Here’s the science:
- Muscles are ~75% water. If you dehydrate, you don’

The biggest regret bodybuilders have is realising they wasted their off-season.

Prep doesn’t build physiques, it simply reveals them. If the off-season is neglected, the stage will expose it.

This is why it’s dangerous to think of it as

The hardest part of bodybuilding isn’t prep, it’s often what happens after.

You’ve spent months (or even years) living with tunnel-vision focus on one goal: stepping on stage in peak condition. But when the lights fade, the tan was

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