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#4 Micronutrients & Water

The topic of micronutrition may sound boring but you can’t afford to ignore
it. Long-term micronutrient deficiencies will impact your health and torpedo

your training efforts. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be complicated. By

observing a few simple rules of thumb regarding your daily fruit and
vegetable intake you can safeguard against deficiencies.

#5 Nutrient Timing & Meal Frequency

Industry thinking used to be as simple as, eat big, lift big, get big.
The pendulum then swung too far to the right of moderation towards

excessive attention to detail. The new standard became ‘eat many small
meals throughout the day’ sometimes known as a typical bodybuilder diet.

Unfortunately, I now think it has swung too far in the other direction, where

we have the (only slightly less annoying) myth that meal frequency and
timing don’t matter, or even that “calories don’t count as long as you eat

within an 8 hour window” - a natural consequence of people jumping on the

intermittent fasting bandwagon without understanding (or caring about) the
science. As is the case with most of these things, the truth is somewhere in

the middle. We’ll discuss where this happy line of moderation may lie for
you, as well as how and when to adjust.

#6 Supplements

Supplements are the smallest part of the puzzle.
However, they can be useful, so we’ll cover the what, when, and where with

them. We’ll also dive in for a deeper look at some important supplements.

This information is given in order of importance. So, implement it in
this order. The more difficult you make it the less likely you are to be

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