Case studys and peer reviewed research on natural bodybuilding contest preparation or taking the body to extremes of body composition are pretty rare so whenever there’s a new study I pretty much always review it. Today we review a case study written by some individuals from Eric Texler’s lab – Eric is a previous guest host of the Barbell 1 show on several occasions. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://www.jissn.com/content/pdf/s12970-015-0083-x.pdf . 

I was taking a look over my friend Andrea Valdez's ebook Beyond the Build and in the process was coming up with many notes on my first experience competing as a bodybuilding. Here are 28 tips in no particular order - 15 yesterday, and 13 today. Enjoy!

I have been having a middle of the night protein shake since about 2009 so I am always interested in research around bedtime nutrition. Everyone always says it’s the main time for the body to recover – so one would think feeding it makes sense, but has anyone researched this? Here comes a brand new study on the topic! John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25926415 . 

I was taking a look over my friend Andrea Valdez's ebook Beyond the Build and in the process was coming up with many notes on my first experience competing as a bodybuilding. Here are 28 tips in no particular order - 15 yesterday, and 13 today. Enjoy!

I was taking a look over my friend Andrea Valdez's ebook Beyond the Build and in the process was coming up with many notes on my first experience competing as a bodybuilding. Here are 30 tips in no particular order - 15 today, and 15 tomorrow. Enjoy!

Matt McGunagle is the CEO of Strength Portal, a highly flexible platform that personal trainers across a range of disciplines can use to create and personalize workout programs, record and track session data, and evaluate client results. Based in Berkeley, California, StrengthPortal was founded in 2013 by three graduates of California Polytechnic State University. One of Matt's partner's has been very helpful with the Barbell 1 website and so I want to give them a big thank you.

Matt was a previous guest on the show and today we catch up and talk about opportunities in online personal training and about confidently taking risks as a young entrepreneur.

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We previously reviewed a study on magnesium supplementation in volleyball players who were not deficient. That was in episode 297. Today we are back at it again and once again it seems there may be something to supplementing with this mineral. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://www.jissn.com/content/pdf/s12970-015-0081-z.pdf . 

I get questions fairly often about how one should implement blood flow restriction training. Is it better than regular strength training and how much of it should they do. We attempt to answer some of these questions today via this research study and some of the commentary afterward. John always reviews the full-text of every article, but you may view the free abstract by clicking here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23278841 .