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How long will it take to regain lost muscle (eg, during lockdown)?
How quickly can I regain muscle (and how quickly will I lose muscle)? During the pandemic in 2020/21, the gyms were closed and so most of us stopped weight-training completely....
13th Jul 2022
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Does having muscles REALLY ‘torch’ body fat?
“Pack on the muscle and torch that fat!!” “Turn yourself into a fat-burning inferno!!” So scream the headlines and advertisements from just about every muscle and fitness mag you lay eyes...
10th Jul 2022
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Why Tim Ferris’s ‘The 4-Hour Body’ is Impossible
Why you won’t achieve ‘the 4-Hour Body’ Tim Ferris’s bestselling book ‘The 4-Hour Body’ includes a chapter called ‘From Geek to Freak’, in which he claims to have gained 34lbs...
7th Jul 2022
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The Big Insulin Myth
In a paper published in 2018, titled ‘Is there an optimal diet for weight management and metabolic health?’, the authors rather refreshingly concluded that ‘Human beings prefer things to be...
4th Jul 2022
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The Tim Ferris ‘Slow Carb’ Diet
Tim Ferris’s book The 4-Hour Body aims to tell us how to achieve maximum results with the least amount of effort required. Essentially, he attempts to give us the ‘minimum...
28th Jun 2022
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What’s the best rep range for building muscle?
For optimal muscle building (hypertrophy), most sets will fall somewhere between five and 20 reps per set as long as each set is performed close to failure. Failure is defined...
25th Jun 2022
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What percentage fat before I see my abs?
One of the questions we get asked very often (by men) following a DEXA scan is: “what percentage body fat do I have to be before I see my abs?”...
22nd Jun 2022
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Netflix Game Changers – Fact or Propaganda?
This blog contains two responses to the Netflix film Game Changers from Bodyscan consultants Kevin Garde and Rob Webster. Kevin is a Nutritionist and Founder of PRISM Nutrition. Rob is a...
19th Jun 2022
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