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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The binge-restrict cycle often begins with innocence and good intentions.

For example, someone wakes up without hunger and decides that eating without appetite would be counterintuitive, so they delay their first meal. On paper, it makes sense. In p

Would you rather be hungry with bloating… or hungry without it? Because either way, you’ll be hungry at some point in prep.

Many “prep-friendly” diet foods contain ingredients the gut can’t fully absorb or process. The

Most people don’t have a slow metabolism.
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It’s no secret that losing body fat takes effort, structure, and consistency. But for many, the real challenge isn’t understanding what to do, it’s doing it accurately and repeatedly

You can’t out-train poor fuelling.

Hypertrophy is performance-driven, the better you train, the stronger the signal for adaptation. Pre- and post-workout nutrition are what allow you to express that training potential. When you train fasted, y

You can’t diet your way out of a bad starting point.

No matter how disciplined you are, if you start prep too heavy, you’re already playing catch-up. Beginning 25 to 30 percent above stage weight means your entire prep becomes an uphill

Stop comparing calorie numbers when your physiology, recovery, and output aren’t the same.

It’s easy to assume that the athlete eating more food is in a “better” position during prep or a dieting phase… but that’

The healthiest foods on the planet are also the most misunderstood.

Despite what social media trends might suggest, the diet that supports longevity, metabolic health, and performance isn’t solely defined by what you exclude, it’s mainly

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