Our Evidence Based Nutrition Science Blog

Here I will define ad libitum dieting as eating without tracking your macronutrients. Can you do this and get contest/photoshoot lean? Good question. There are well known and respected figures in the fitness industry such as Menno Henselmans who have managed to successfully apply ad libitum dieting to get down...

In the world of bodybuilding many will argue that you cannot truly prep someone for a bodybuilding competition without having done one yourself, and I can imagine many Triathlete coaches would say the same about competing and coaching in triathlon. While this statement isn’t fully true as science is science...

In the fitness industry the awareness of an individual’s calorie intake has been a hot talking point for some time, and rightly so. By elevating calorie balance over food choice when talking to people, we have potentially reduced the chances of people resorting to binging on the foods that are ‘naughty’ when they cave in, and we’ve got real about why we might not be losing weight.

On nutrition blogs you will see a lot of about the macronutrients: how to set a macronutrient-tracking based diet, the benefits of optimising muscle protein synthesis, carb cycling and lots more. You don’t see so much about micronutrients, though. This is likely because the topic isn’t all that sexy; after all, it’s not like Vitamin B6 is going to get you really lean or manganese is going to help you hit your next deadlift PR.

Celebrities are a strange breed and, for some reason, when we read about a celebrity doing a thing, no matter how ludicrous or potentially dangerous it could be we swallow it hook line and sinker. Why? How is it that the general public will pay attention to something that a...

A long-time favourite house music track of mine is Ultra Nate, Free. Within this track are a set of words that, at this stage in my life have so much meaning… Cause you’re free to do what you want to do. You’ve got to live your life, do what you...

Upon completion of the BTN Practical Academy (Active IQ Level 4 Qualification in Nutrition Coaching) you are a qualified nutrition coach able to practice and help clients with their nutrition and lifestyle. Because of this, some of the biggest questions I get asked as manager of the BTN Academy are:...

As a coach specialising in fat loss, the vast number of my clients have been female. This is not unusual and is in fact the norm in the industry – women are far more likely to seek a personal trainer whereas men tend to avoid asking others for help unless...

There are two kinds of coaches, broadly speaking: There are shit coaches. This is, unfortunately, the majority in my experience. This isn’t usually due to the coaches themselves, though it often is. It’s due primarily due to the low quality of Level 3 PT courses, the lack of support that...

OK, so my last blog here was kinda long, and wasn’t really aimed at fitness people. I’m going to try to make up for that now by writing something for you nutrition-y folks that’s a little shorter and to the point. We’ll see how that goes… A while ago I...