Genesis Zone

So thought I would share a piece of work by one of my mentors and go to guys for nutritional advice, Kyle Webber aka 'The Physique Coach' and owner of Nutrivolve. Now this is aimed more at those that have competed or looking to compete, refeeds can be a god send but also if abused can be the difference between you placing or not, or in worst case scenarios not even making it to the stage after 12, 16, 20 weeks of dieting. How To Structure Refeed Meals Hey there! If you’re reading this, then chances are that you’ve either competed in a physique based competition before or are looking at getting on stage sometime soon!  Now before you get into it, I want to take this opportunity to give you some advice. Throughout my years as a full-time coach, I’ve specialised in bringing beginner physique athletes to a high level of physical development. Now; there are a few essential things that you MUST do (in my opinion) in order to reach a higher level.  Your goa...

Thought I would write a series of pieces on various training methods that I have employed over the years and also those that I have put into clients programs. I never ever give a client a training program that I haven't tried and tested myself as I want to know exactly how it will make you feel and the pro's and con's of them, both mentally and physically. To start with I thought I would write about one of my favourite training techniques - Daily Undulating Periodisation or DUP for short. Now it sounds very technical DUP just by the name alone, when the reality is its anything but complicated. To simplify it further lets break it down into easier to understand pieces; Daily - We are literally talking about days, see it's not rocket science so far is it... Undulating - A word some may or may not of heard of before but undulating means a flowing motion, up and down in a wave like pattern. Now if we refer that back to training it means reps and sets progressing in...

So, here I want to discuss what I believe is optimal, but I'm not going to provide all my reasoning here, just explaining what I believe is optimal. High Training Frequency - This is optimal, I used to be of the opinion that if your on cycle, due to protein synthesis you don't need to keep training frequency as high. Here's where the problems can arise. Frequency of a lift is important, more practice of a movement, the more efficient you become, simple. Eventually this will cause issues, your only going to be able to repeat a movement daily for so long. For example 3 sets daily is a lot more management then 21 sets in 1 day. Long term though, you'll run into the constraint of injuries due to movement repetition. Also, you should never go below a frequency of twice per week. Training of a muscle more frequently will provide benefits, such as increased satellite cell profileration, muscular swelling (remain pumped looking constantly). So training each lift twice per w...

Back Day 1 All exercises are rest paused, no supersets today, 3 rest pause sets , 10 deep breaths, 2 overall sets per exercise. Up weight if you hit targets. Zbar Row 8-5-3 Single arm dumbbell row 8-5-3 Narrow seated row 8-5-3 Mid back machine row 8-5-3 Lat pull down 12-8-5 Assisted chin 12-8-5 Lat pull down 12-8-5 Assisted chin 12-8-5 Straight arm pullover on the cable 12-8-5 + CHEST Chest seated press 8-5-3 Seated Cable Flies 12-8-5 LAT STRETCH Machine Shrug 12-8-5 www.genesis-ugl. com www.genesis-board.com

(8am) Meal 1 - 2 whole eggs, 150g lean beef/sirloin (10% fat content), 8g extra virgin olive oil, 15g protein from whey (11am) Meal 2 - 200g salmon, 120g white fish, 70g avocado (1.30am) Meal 3 - 300g chicken/turkey, 150g sweet potato, 30g mozzarella cheese, 1 apple (4pm) Meal 4 - 60g protein from whey, 65g gluten free oats, 100g strawberries, 10g dark chocolate (7pm) Meal 5 - 300g chicken/turkey, 60g rice/couscous, 5g coconut oil (10pm) Pre bed - 60g protein from whey, 70g nut butter Each shake with 250ml Semi Milk www.genesis-ugl.com www.genesis-board.com

When planning your workouts you don't need to account for metabolic stress, only tension and damage. Unfortunately some of the researchers who study this stuff aren't all that bright. The reason why metabolic stress appears to stimulate hypertrophy is because the type of training that produces metabolic stress just so happens to be great for recruiting all available motor units and exposing the slow/moderate twitch fibers to more tension/volume. Performing a light pumping/fatigue set of 30 reps after finishing your heavy 5x5 doesn't cause extra growth because of metabolic stress, if causes extra growth because you've just increased your total rep count from 25 for the slow/moderate twitch fibers to 55 total reps, adding just 1 pump set at the end of your workout more than doubled the volume demands on the low/moderate twitch fibers. Metabolic stress and fatigue themselves don't cause hypertrophy, the real hypertrophy effect comes from motor unit recruitment modulat...

Training Day (5am)Meal 1 : 3 eggs white, 2 whole – 5gr coconut oil, 20gr german wheat flour, stevia, make as a pancake Pre gym meal always to be had 90mins pre – 60g protein from whey, 50g ground rice, 100g banana    Train 8.30am 9am : Workout shake, drink throughout the session in at least 1.5litre of water, start this 15mins pre training –  50g peptopro, 10g citralline malate, 5g beta alanine, 5g creatine, 80g cyclic dextrin (10am) Meal 2 : Pwo/last meal – 150g chicken/turkey, 100g rice, 100g low fat cereal like cheerios/golden grahams/cocopops with almond milk, 200g pineapple (1.30pm) Meal 3 – 165g salmon, 1 whole egg, 8g extra virgin olive oil, 20g protein from whey   (4.30pm) Meal 4 – 300g extra lean beef/rump (4-5% fat content) 100g avocado, 30g light mayo (7.30pm) Meal 5 – 300g chicken/turkey, 100g sweet potato, 10g coconut oil, 40g cashews (11pm) Meal 6 – 40gr from Whey isolate, 20gr of almond bu...

Is breakfast good beneficial or not? Well, I've not come to the conclusion that... It depends. You see a common problem people within the fitness industry suffer from is adrenal fatigue, if you suffer from adrenal fatigue you will not make enough cortisol and this makes it harder to maintain normal blood sugar levels. If you eat a breakfast, between say 6-8AM this can help with this issue, thebenefit of this can last up to approximately 10AM, this is where we get into the realm of balance and passing this should be avoided for health purposes. As mentioned above evening protein intake is important, but then I also recommend periods of fasting for at the most 12 hours with 10 hours being the ideal minimum to support processes such as insulin sensitivity, autophagy and more. It is true that carbohydrates in the morning and post-workout are less likely to be stored as fat.  So here really, the choice is yours, you either can skip it and hav...

Some people seem unsure of which forms of carbohydrates are best for replenishing muscle glycogen stores, well most fruits aren't very good at replenishing muscle glycogen stores because fructose is only capable of replenishing liver glycogen stores. Sugar (sucrose or HFCS) isn't very good either because it's 50% fructose. Only glucose can replenish muscle glycogen stores. Glucose = Can replenish muscle and liver glycogen stores Fructose = Can only replenish liver glycogen stores Galactose = Can only replenish liver glycogen stores Sucrose (and HFCS) = Half glucose, half fructose Lactose = Half glucose, half galactose Starch (complex carbohydrates) = Glucose Fructose and galactose can't directly replenish muscle glycogen stores although they can do so indirectly via dynamic equilibrium (they're converted into glycogen/glucose in the liver and then released into the blood stream where they can be absorbed by your muscles) although this process ...