ATP Science, Australia’s “Best” Supplement Company OR just a bunch of snake oil salesmen disguised in lab coats? This opinion piece is intended to shed light on the marketing tactics that many supplement companies’ employ as means to sell their product. Tactics that are arguably misleading and misin...
Client: “I want to lose (insert arbitrary number) of kilos by X date” Coach: That’s great. How do you plan on achieving this goal? Client: “Ahhh, follow (insert popular FAD) diet and be stricter with my eating behaviour” Coach: “Well, that approach hasn’t worked the last 20 times you tried it...
Excuse the title, but no we didn’t eat any rats and that in itself is kinda NEAT! During hypocaloric periods (calorie deficits) we observe decreases in body weight, we also observe decreases in energy expenditure (with lower body weight comes decreased energy need). This response is not surprising g...
Author: James Anthony Dietary fat is a forgotten, sometimes misunderstood and seemingly under-researched macronutrient within the fitness industry.This is excluding those who have been sucked into the keto/high fat craze that will hopefully pass like the rest of the usually unsustainable diets recom...
The following is an insight into the peaking strategy for JPS Head Coach and Australia’s number one u/77kg powerlifter, Sam Schepis devised by his Coach & JPS Director of Science, Lyndon Purcell. —————————————...
Aaron Hoey. An individuals first bulking phase is usually littered with numerous and avoidable mistakes from both a training and nutrition perspective. Issues such as too much training volume or using intensities that result in technical breakdown and injury are common place for the novice. So too i...
If someone knows next to nothing about nutrition, the two things they probably WOULD know are that: Vegetables are good for you Sugar is bad for you From the research we have available, that person is probably only right about one of those points. Can you guess which one? While it seems the mainstre...
NEATly Peeled Brian Minor, MS, CSCS Eat less than you expend. Fat loss really is that simple. However, adaptive mechanisms can make executing that objective an increasingly uphill battle the leaner we become. While body fat is a valuable reserve for energy during food scarcity, our bodies are fascin...
