Sleep and Muscle Growth
Luke Tulloch
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According to studies, sleep is a sure-fire path to building more muscle and preventing muscle loss during a diet. It enhances recovery and improves performance in the gym....
The Microbiome, Probiotics and Gut Health
Luke Tulloch
The article below is adapted from a podcast episode transcript, so please forgive any spelling or continuity errors. You can listen below:
Why is the human microbiome important?
All right, so I think first up...
10 Simple Healthy Lifestyle Tips For Everyone
Luke Tulloch
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How can I be 100% healthy?
Unfortunately, this is the wrong attitude to have. Health is not always something tangible. You can’t be 58% healthy. The reason why is because...
Training For The Average Gym-Goer
Luke Tulloch
The article below is adapted from a podcast episode transcript, so please forgive any spelling or continuity errors. You can listen below:
What I want to talk about is the primary considerations for training the general...
Training Volume For Strength and Hypertrophy – A Guide in Plain English
Training Volume Definition - What is training volume?
One of the primary variables we need to think about when training for strength and muscle growth is how much training to do in the first place. We need a way...
Does Insulin Make You Fat?
Luke Tulloch
The article below is adapted from a podcast episode transcript, so please forgive any spelling or continuity errors. You can listen below:
Insulin in a nutshell - it's a hormone. It's secreted by some cells on the pancreas called the...
Everything You Need To Know About Diet Breaks and Refeeds
Luke Tulloch
In this article I'm going to outline what diet breaks are, why we might want to use them, and how to implement them. This is something that is extremely topical at the moment in the fitness industry, but I get a lot of...
Fatigue Masks Fitness
Luke Tulloch
As I write this, the rugby World cup 2019 is getting towards the pointy end of the competition. While the top teams in the world have never been closer on paper, there have been some seriously one-sided results. This morning I watched a great Irish team...
Decompress
The world of mindfulness and meditation is taking off these days. No longer do you have to be a hippie or a worldly Buddhist to spread the good word of Zen; all it takes is a simple download of an app to tell you to sit still for ten minutes.
But that’s getting beside the...
Doing Everything and Ending Up with Nothing
The fitness world is a funny place. You tend to get extremes of human behaviour existing within the same fluorescent-lit warehouse at the same time despite seeming opposite to each other. Scanning a gym floor will show you people fighting every...
How Metabolic Adaptation Can Hinder Your Fat Loss
Part Two – What To Do About It
In the previous article, I played Herald of Doom and delivered the bad news about how adaptive thermogenesis coming over uninvited to empty your liquor cabinet and kick your dog. We established how our...
Losing weight is a big problem as far as your brain is concerned. As captain of the ship, its job is to make sure you survive long enough to pop out as many kids as you can and that means stocking up on as much fuel as you can hold on to. Can’t make babies if you can’t even get out of...
