Jay Ferruggia: Is over-thinking your training and nutrition killing your progress?

Jay Ferruggia Jay Ferruggia is an elite fitness and mindset coach and a pioneer of underground, warehouse-style gyms using unconventional training methods, opening his Renegade Gym in 1996. He’s consulted for sports teams and corporations, including the New York Jets and Giants, WWE, and SalesForce, and worked as an adviser to LiveStrong and Arnold Schwarzenegger.…

July 15, 20240Comments

ByDr Jonny Rees

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Stan Efferding: build muscle, burn fat and perform at your full potential

Stan Efferding Stan Efferding is known as the world’s strongest bodybuilder, being both a world record holding powerlifter and an IFBB professional bodybuilder. He is a leading authority on performance nutrition, and is the founder of The Vertical Diet, a performance-based nutritional framework. He has consulted with hundreds of elite athletes across multiple sports. Follow…

July 15, 20240Comments

ByDr Jonny Rees

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NUTRITION Vanguard

Dr Abbie Smith-Ryan: The big benefits of creatine for women

Dr Abbie Smith-Ryan, PhD Dr Abbie Smith-Ryan is an expert in exercise physiology and sports nutrition. She serves as the associate chair for research for the Department of Exercise and Sport Science, the director of the Applied Physiology Laboratory, and co-director of the Human Performance Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She…

July 10, 20240Comments

ByJoe Warner

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Victoria Felkar: Why is the line between legal and banned PED blurring?

Victoria Felkar Victoria Felkar is an interdisciplinary researcher and instructor working across the fields of kinesiology, medicine, critical studies and the humanities. Here specific research focus explores women's health and female hormone manipulation within sport and medicine. Follow her on Instagram. Visit victoriafelkar.com. Steroids and PED popularity is soaring In a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation…

July 7, 20240Comments

ByJoe Warner

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What is a Ski Erg and should you use one?

It’s said you can’t reinvent the wheel, but can you when it's a flywheel. The Ski Erg machine, invented by world-leading indoor rowing machine company Concept2 in response to skiers mounting its rowers vertically on walls so they could train inside in the off-season, has emerged as one of the most popular and rewarding types…

July 6, 20240Comments

ByJoe Warner

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Dr Tommy Wood: train your brain to stay sharp for life

Dr Tommy Wood Dr Tommy Wood, BM BCh, PhD, is a neuroscientist and performance consultant to world class athletes in more than a dozen sports. A self-confessed “elite-level professional nerd”, he received an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, a medical degree from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in physiology…

July 6, 20240Comments

ByDr Jonny Rees

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Judd Lienhard: Believe you’re an athlete to unlock optimal performance

Judd Leinhard Judd Lienhard is founder of MASS Method, a dynamic workout programme designed to increase movement, athleticism, strength and speed. He is a father, former US Army Ranger, has worked as a speed and performance coach in Austin, Texas since 2012, and lives by his ethos of “Always Be An Athlete”. Follow him on…

July 6, 20240Comments

ByDr Jonny Rees

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HEALTH Investigation

Are men facing a terminal decline in testosterone?

Testosterone has an image problem. To some people, high levels of the primary male sex hormone is a synonym for aggressive or toxic behaviour, or the sinister goal of doped-up Olympians and steroid-fuelled bodybuilders. To others, a low level of testosterone is the cause of every male health problem from dwindling libido to midlife lethargy,…

July 4, 20240Comments

ByMark Bailey

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Steve Cook: Most A-list action heroes are on steroids

Steve Cook Steve Cook is one of the world's most popular health and fitness social media influencers. He is a former competitive fitness model. Follow him on X, Instagram and YouTube. Visit stevecookhealth.com. Steve Cook: The Rock is not natural From The Rock’s famous physique to the Kardashian cartoonish curves, unbelievable bodies are…

July 4, 20240Comments

ByJoe Warner

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Dr Stacy Sims: What women get wrong when training around their period

Dr Stacy Sims, PhD Dr Stacy Sims, PhD, is an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who aims to revolutionise exercise nutrition and performance for women. She has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers, and authored female-focused performance optimisation books, Roar, and Next Level, which challenge the existing dogma around exercise, nutrition, and health for women.…

June 23, 20240Comments

ByJoe Warner

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