Exercise & Fitness
Strength vs. Size: How Your Muscles Really Adapt to Training
Early strength gains come from your nervous system, not bigger muscles. Here's how hypertrophy and neural adaptation actually work.
Dr. Robert Davies
Dr. Davies, PhD, MRes, BSc, CPT, FHEA is a physiologist specialising in human health, performance, and nutrition. He has worked in academia and industry as a lecturer and researcher, running clinical trials and authoring journal articles.
Diet & Nutrition
How Ultra-Processed "Junk" Foods Expand Your Waistline
Ultra-processed junk foods are designed to be over-eaten. They are high in fat, salt and sugar, and low in most essential nutrients. Best avoid.
Exercise & Fitness
Muscle Fibre Types Explained: Growth and Function
Not all muscle is created equal, and neither are muscle fibres. Learn more about how they move, look, produce energy and behave.
Diet & Nutrition
Unplugging the Food Matrix for Nutrition and Human Health
Learn why the physical structure of food matters as much as the nutrients in it, and how the food matrix can be used to improve your health.
Diet & Nutrition
Health Benefits of Legumes: Just One Can a Week
Adding just one simple can of legumes a week to your weekly shop can transform your heart and gut health, your wallet, and the planet.
Health & Wellbeing
Beyond Diet & Exercise: 5 Hidden Keys to Fat Loss
There is more to successful weight loss than diet and exercise. Learn how mindset, environment and personality affect your body weight.
Diet & Nutrition
Why Focusing on 'What to Eat' Beats 'What to Avoid'
We believe adding healthy foods generally beats strict diets. Learn how focusing on "what to eat" beats "what to avoid" for changing your diet.
Diet & Nutrition
The Health Benefits of Eating Oats for Breakfast
Oats are popular for a reason. In addition to being cheap, sustainable and hardy, they have several well-known health benefits.
Exercise & Fitness
Overtraining: How to Diagnose & Prevent It
Monitoring and early diagnosis can prevent overtraining syndrome, as can planned training, rest, recovery, nutrition and lifestyle choices.
Diet & Nutrition
Fuel for Muscle Growth: Calories, Protein & Macros
Calories, protein, fat and carbohydrates: the right amounts, at the right time, are needed from the right sources to optimise muscle growth.
Exercise & Fitness
What is Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS)?
DOMS is a muscle soreness that occurs 12–48 hours after intense or unfamiliar exercise, caused by microtears in your muscle fibres.
Diet & Nutrition
Does Eating Fat Make You Fat? Low-Fat Diets & Fat Loss
Low-fat diets are effective for fat loss. However, not all low-fat diets are healthy, and other (equally effective) options are available.