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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Support from the right supplements can be valuable, especially alongside consistent routines and good sleep habits.

In an ideal world, sleep quality is built on the fundamentals first such as light exposure, caffeine timing, relaxation, routines, an

Elite athletes aren’t solely defined by genetics.

Elite performance is often spoken about as if it’s something you either have or you don’t. Good genetics matter a lot, but they are rarely what separates athletes once everyone in t

Planning ahead is still underrated in bodybuilding.

Many athletes still treat comp prep as a straight line from point A to point B. The strategy becomes centred on scale weight rather than the physiological state the athlete is trying to preserve.

Comfort is a poor compass for bodybuilding progression.

Like any high-level sport, bodybuilding demands tolerance of discomfort across multiple domains. Training close to failure, managing hunger in a deficit, or completing cardio when energy is low

Diet quality is mainly built through inclusion, not exclusion.

Nutrition has slowly become a game of exclusion. The problem is that physiology cares more about whether nutrient needs are being met, consistently and over time.

When you exclude foods

Glycine is often underestimated as a sleep supplement.

Rather than acting as a sedative, it appears to support sleep by facilitating normal physiological processes involved in sleep regulation, including the small, brain-controlled reduction in core

Some of the outcomes that matter most in bodybuilding never get judged.

External outcomes in bodybuilding are noisy by nature. Some variables will always sit outside your control, no matter how well you prepare.

What tends to be far more stable are

We’re excited to introduce Talia, our newest dietitian here at The Bodybuilding Dietitians team.

Talia is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and physique coach with a strong foundation in nutrition science and psychology. With a background in

Many people overcomplicate their post-workout nutrition.

At its core, the goal of your post-training intake is simple: restore some of the fuel you used, support muscle repair, replace fluid losses, and set yourself up to eat well for the rest of th

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