Extreme Nutrition - News & Articles

A Big Breakfast for Big Gains
Breakfast although probably the most over looked meal of the day is also, alongside your post workout meal, the most important. After hours of fasting your body is primed to absorb and utilise far more nutrients than it is able to at other times of the day. Blood glucose levels… »read more

WADA 2009 Prohibited List
The World Anti-Doping Code THE 2009 PROHIBITED LIST INTERNATIONAL STANDARD The official text of the Prohibited List shall be maintained by WADA and shall be published in English and French. In the event of any conflict between the English and French versions, the En… »read more

The Extreme Experience
I have been with Extreme for as long as a month, and if people tell you a month isn’t long enough to tell if a product is good, or of it works, they are wrong! I don’t want to sound sycophantic, or like your typical salesman trying to flog his wears to you, because that’s no… »read more

In The Beginning
For what ever reasons at some point in or lives we either just plain slack off and get lazy or have a hard time finding the time to get into shape and lead a healthy lifestyle. Some have actually never really even stepp… »read more

IFBB Pro Paul George interview by Lee Blyth
It’s April 14th, I’m sitting in the foyer of Pudsey Civic Hall in Leeds, the venue of the NABBA North East show. Opposite me sits Paul George, he’s got a nose piercing, a goatee beard and blonde Mohica… »read more

Extreme Athletes at the UKBFF Britain
We only had two Extreme competitors in this show both of which did fantastically well. First we had Venetia in the Ladies Physique Under 57kg class, this was only her second ever contest so she didn't… »read more

The GPC World Powerlifting Championships, Ghent, Belgium
It’s amazing how quickly twelve weeks of your life can come and go when preparing for a large sporting event. I can remember being twelve weeks out from the 2006 GPC world championships, thinking twelve sessions of each lift left,… »read more

Building a Bigger Bench: An alternative to the Flex Approach
Tell someone you train and inevitably the first question they’ll ask you is ‘What d’ya bench?’ Promptly followed by ‘Show us your six pack’, to which I reply ‘It’s in the fridge’. In… »read more

The Best of Both Worlds
Utilising the powerlifting movements to build yourself a bigger, stronger physique By Liam Armstrong (Jnr BNBF Mr Scotland, BDFPA British Champion & Record Holder (deadlift)) Chest day in my gym is like a Saturday at the supermarket, only difference… »read more

The competition diet is the most difficult part of contest preparation.
A workout may last an hour or two but dieting is 24 hours a day. You must have willpower if you intend to be successful at this. It is also expensive. Quality food, protein powders, MRP's (meal replacements) and supplements add up quickl… »read more



Keeping Motivated for Success
How many of you fall back into old bad habits after rea a certain goal you’ve accomplished? Do you diet hard to get in shape for a holiday or for a contest then blow all your hard work after the event by pigging out? I can admit that I a… »read more

The Low Down on Fats
Believe it or not, these are the good guys, you need fat in your diet, but here is the catch: there are good fats and bad fats. Keep in mind that 86% of the young-developing brain of a 6 year old is comprised of fat. As an adult, 60% of… »read more

10 Points To A Better Diet
I have many clients asking me about diets and the same questions keep cropping up time after time. There are as many diets as there are questions and each diet seems to create more questions. Is the Atkins diet safe? Does it… »read more

The Bitter Facts on Artificial Sweeteners
In this carbohydrate rich society we live in, one thing is true, we Westerners love our sweets. In recent publications in leading medical journals, it has been acknowledged we are the fattest generation the world has ever seen. Diabetes in c… »read more

Glycemic Index And Carb Utilisation
KEY POINTS 1. The glycemic index (GI) of a food represents the magnitude of the increase in blood glucose that occurs after ingestion of the food. 2. GI tends to be lower for foods that have a high fructose content, exhibit high amylose… »read more

Understand Whey And Its Properties
When it comes to protein intake, bodybuilders tend to be quite savvy. Many can tell you precisely how many grams of protein are in an egg or a chicken breast. They take the meaning of the word protein literally, with the per… »read more

The Many Roles of Glutamine in The Body
Glutamine is the most plentiful nonessential amino acid in the body and plays a number of important physiological roles. Glutamine is, no doubt, the mother of all aminos. It is required in mega-quantities to maintain the proper function of your immune system, kidneys, pancreas, gal… »read more

Understanding the Importance of Hydration
75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population) In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger. Even mild dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%. One glass of water will shu… »read more

Protein Power - The Essential Ingredient
Every bodybuilder who wants to build serious muscle eat a lot of protein, protein is the most important element in your physique enhancing programme. Muscles are basically protein and water, without these 2 nutrients in plentiful and steady supply you restrict your ability to grow. Before makin… »read more

Stress - How To Overcome A Major Health Hazard
Everyone knows that stress isn't good - that it can get on top of us and effect our wellbeing. What most people don't realise is that stress can effect much more than just our mood or mental state. Stress has been shown to have a detrimental effect on many parts of our body and indeed peoples health… »read more

To Carb or Not To Carb
When you ask 20 bodybuilders about carb intake, you will likely get 20 different theories. Suffice to say, there is a wide variety of opinion on how to manipulate carbs properly to either gain mass or lose fat. To help you form your own thought on this controversial subject, I have compiled a li… »read more

Super-Charge Your Metabolism
You hear people speak of it all the time, they blame it for them being fat and also for being too thin; metabolism What is it? It's the process of converting food to energy (movement and heat). Metabolism happens within your muscles and organs and its result is the burning of calories. Metabolis… »read more

Natural Anablics
Years ago when pictures of bodybuilders and athletes were taken in black and white technology was still in black and white too. The knowledge that is now applied to producing (some) of the supplements you now use to enhance your physique was not available, legends like Reg Park, Bill Pearl, Steve Re… »read more

Body Type Training
People are born with certain body characteristics, some are gender related, (men growing facial hair and women developing breasts are two examples), and some are ethnic characteristics for example Orientals typically not being as tall as Caucasians. Within these ethnic sub-sections there… »read more

Open Your Window
Your feeling a bit sick and are all trembley, you find a bench to sit on so you can gather yourself, your veins bulging with blood after completing your last rep, the burn of lactic acid in your muscle fibres and the trained muscle groups pump… »read more

Protein Per Serving, How much is safe?
There has been much debate on how much protein we can safely digest in one serving or meal, supplement companies all recommend different serving sizes for their products and most references seem to refer to a study done in the 1970's on subjects with pre-existing health problems and how… »read more

Weight & Fat Reducing Diet
The following meal plan can be used when wishing to reduce your fat levels and bodyweight in conjunction with an appropriate exercise program. This particular diet would be suitable for an athlete, boxer, martial artist who has to reduce their weight to make a certain weight class or for… »read more

Mass Building Diet Program
The following meal plan can be used when wishing to build muscle mass, as part of an appropriate exercise programme. MEAL 1 (Breakfast): 4 boiled/poached eggs and 2 slice of toast OR Extreme Meal Replacement and… »read more

Protein Analysis Charts
This article is for information only, it IS NOT questioning the quality or factual evidence shown on each of the product labels quoted. We do not accept responsibility for influencing your judgement when buying protein powder in future. We wanted to show how various different protein an… »read more

Why are Amino Acids Important to the Body?
Yes, Amino acids are beneficial to strength athletes. But they are also important additions to a dietary supplement program for other reasons as well. Amino acids are considered the building blocks that comprise protein. Protein, it follows, cannot exist without the correct combination of amin… »read more

Overtraining and The Immune System
Whenever we get ill we all tend to say we have a bug or a virus, then we often run off to the doctor to try and get some kind of medicine, sound familiar? If we genuinely do have a bug, then the doctor can help by prescribing some anti-biotics which can then kill off the foreign bacteria in our… »read more

Which Whey, Concentrate or Isolate?
It is recommended to have anywhere from 1 - 3 grams of protein per lb of bodyweight on a daily basis. It's also correct that you body can only absorb a certain amount of protein, the rest is excreted and urea levels can get high, hence why we need to replenish protein supplies often with good protei… »read more

Decide, Commit and Prepare
Commit. If your weight and healthy eating goals are important to you, then they must be given some priority in your life. Are you willing to do what it takes to make them happen? Like any challenge, changing your eating habits will take tim… »read more

Trans Fatty Acids
Trans fatty acids, better known as "trans fats" have emerged as the food industry's newest bad boy recruit. Trans fats are formed during a process called hydrogenation, which converts a relatively healthy, unsaturated liquid fat, something like corn oil or soybean oil, into a solid one. One of the m… »read more

Nutrition For Novices
You've just joined a gym, you've been a couple of times and gone round the machines working out what they're all for, you've even picked up the dumbbells to try and get an idea just how much you can handle. The spotty 19 year old that's just gained his… »read more

Saw Palmetto
Saw Palmetto could be one of the most relevant and one of the safest herbal medications around. Originally used by the Native Americans to promote strength, the berries of this plant have now become one of the main herbal choices in, among other things, the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia… »read more

The Extremists
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Tom Blackman
Name Tom Blackman Age 28 Gym you train at and location Prolab Gym (weights) and Next Generation (morning cardio) , Bristol Q.1 Why did you start bodybuilding and did you have any goals of competing to begin with? I originally started training to supplement my Jiu Jitsu… »read more

With a little help from your friends
I have been lucky enough to work with Extreme for just over a year now, and managed to achieve some very personal goals thanks to the experience. After a very disappointing placing at the Welsh UKFBB show, 3rd, a couple of years ago, I have, this year, won the Tall Class at the NABBA Mr Wal… »read more