In this episode of the JPS Podcast, Jacob interviews Mike & Eric and chats about individual differences in psychology and personality types and how this influences ones lifting career. This episode was supposed to be a round table with Ian McCarthy, but scheduling issues saw him join the call as...
The happenings of one’s insides have rapidly become all the rage in modern fitness. From fermented foods to the complete elimination of food groups, improving gut health is now a huge focal point for health nuts and as expected, many gurus have seen a market open for exploitation. ‘Gut health’… Wha...
Ahhh… Training to failure. The one topic that continues to infiltrate fitness discussions and is often the center piece of debate as to what is and what is not, effective training. From gym floor banter to elaborately designed scientific research, examination of the efficacy of hitting a brick wall...
This is without doubt one of the most remarkable transformations we have seen at JPS. We wanted to share this very raw and honest insight from our hard working client Jess and give you an insight into her journey to highlight many of the trials, tribulations and challenges our client Jess faced on h...
Overtraining is a topic of enormous popularity, both among ‘bros’ (ala “You have to wait a week after training a bodypart, to let it recover.”) and in the evidence-based community (just look to the past three years of continuous discussion of Maximum Recoverable volume). Unfortunately, it rem...
Overtraining is a topic of enormous popularity, both among ‘bros’ (ala “You have to wait a week after training a bodypart, to let it recover.”) and in the evidence-based community (just look to the past three years of continuous discussion of Maximum Recoverable volume). Unfortunately, it rem...
Within in the fitness community, there are a few topics that everyone loves to talk almost endlessly about; training frequency, muscle damage, macronutrient numbers and muscle protein synthesis… Everyday it seems that I am answering questions regarding these topics, either in person or online. Today...
Work ethic is extremely important, but it’s not a substitute for intelligence. Here’s why. There’s no question that maintaining a healthy lifestyle requires real, consistent effort, and the weight of this obligation is only increased for the bodybuilder or performance athlete. However, the fa...
