The Smarter Sculpted Physique: Training | Nutrition | Muscle Gain | Fat Loss

Negative mood can equal bad food choices and vice versa. But temptation can affect mood. Scott unpacks research that suggests good mood leads to healthy food choices.

Would you call a lean 5'9”, 208-lb. man frail? Someone did. Scott got trolled online after publishing his overeating experiment results and now takes his turn responding.

Fantasy over reality. Fad diets promise satisfaction, gratify in the short term, but disappoint in the long term. Scott compares the techniques used by the diet and diet food industry to those used by the porn industry.

Is there such a thing as a trained metabolism? What happens if you go off-diet for nearly a month? Scott intentionally overate during his recent three-week vacation, to test the resilience of his own metabolism. He reports the results back from this experiment.

Why do I keep doing this to myself? Scott shares three practical keys to stopping the cycle of failure in weight loss and physique transformation.

Scott outlines six approaches that consistently lead to weight loss failure, offers alternatives that work, and answers questions from his live audience.

Deprivation diets attract people susceptible to eating disorders, and they are showing up on social media disguised as legitimate weight loss methods. The Coach discusses them and shares tips for how to spot a dangerous diet.

Why does one-on-one coaching consistently deliver sustainable results where DIY approaches fail to transform and then maintain physique? Scott expands on three reasons why.

Special guest Erin Simmons joins Scott for a free-flowing chat about her own past in collegiate athletics, academia, and why she chose to abandon fitness modeling.

Krista Scott-Dixon, PhD., fitness and nutrition coach and author, shares wisdom on professional coaching, and how women and women's athletics are reshaping the industry and world.

Three diet constants continue to appear among Scott's clients who've transformed their physiques, sustain those results, and even continue to improve.

Internationally-renown coach, gym owner, and fitness author Rachel Cosgrove joins Scott in a free-flowing conversation about women and fitness: the industry, issues, goals and transformations.

Coach Lee Boyce joins Coach Scott for an hour-long chat about the ins-and-outs, ups-and-downs of being an expert fitness professional today.

Scott shares the inside scoop on his own history with steroids, what really goes on behind the scenes with steroids in the bodybuilding world, and why he left it all behind.

Ryan Lum, the Happy Healthy Vegan, joins Scott for a friendly chat about fitness, diet and the challenges of honest debate in today's online world.

Scott presents the latest clinical research into the body's internal clock and makes practical suggestions on how to apply it for optimized metabolism and better physique.

Physician and nutrition expert Dr. Michael Greger talks with Scott about his research and offers some basic truths about diet and nutrition.

Scott discusses the benefits of therapeutic testosterone replacement therapy, its effects, the symptoms it treats, and how it widely differs from stacked steroid usage.

Think protein is the macronutrient that satisfies best? Think again. Scott shares peer-reviewed scientific research that says differently.

In this special episode, Scott pays tribute to the memory of his friend and protege, cover model Andy Sinclair.

Scott and JC host a live Q&A session, fielding audience questions about exercise methods, biomechanics, the pros and cons of combining training methods, and the importance of recovery.

Scott and JC discuss how an expert coach can adjust and succeed in today's oft-unfair world of social media marketing without selling out.

Gastroenterologist Angie Sadeghi, MD, joins Scott to talk about gut health and fitness-related topics ranging from digestive and metabolic consequences of physique competition, fad diets, body image, to strategies for getting and staying lean.

JC Santana and Scott continue their conversation on biomechanics and functional training. In this episode, they examine how training methods and intensities should be re-examined to preserve joint health and athletic performance.

Functional fitness trailblazer and biomechanics expert JC Santana joins Scott for a spirited conversation about biomechanics, training methodology, and the challenges of marketing real expertise in today's fitness environment.

Scott opens up and shares his list of 17 foundational conditions and habits necessary for anyone who's truly serious about transforming their physique.

Strength coach and nutrition specialist Dan Garner joins Scott for a conversation about the fitness and nutrition industry, coaching, and what differentiates true experts from the pretenders.

It's no secret that dieting is a popular New Year's resolution. It's also no secret that many people fail to achieve their diet goals. Scott shares a proven approach to dieting that leads to long-term success.

One food. All meals. Several days. The Coach outlines the benefits and guidelines of “mono-meals”: a single food eaten as an entire meal for a few days as a healthy, convenience, gimmick-free weight-control method.

Why and how can some people achieve then maintain physique transformation when others can't? Coach Scott covers characteristics of two opposite mindsets: those doomed to fail and those destined to achieve.

It's the Holiday season and time to start fretting about diet and weight gain, right? Not so fast. Healthy diet psychology celebrates and embraces food during the Holidays.

A study published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology in 2017 found that training to failure slows down recovery, supporting the key tenet of recovery emphasized in Hardgainer Solution 2.0.

Scott's said for years that calorie restriction diets set in motion a metabolic cascade that make a person fatter over the long term. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2011 comes to a similar conclusion.

Scott makes some high-level observations about health, longevity and integrity following his interview with Dr. Thomas Colin Campbell.

Scott shares personal stories from his bodybuilding past to illustrate techniques the fitness and supplement industries use to create the illusion that their products work.

Scott compares repeated diet failures common with fad dieting to the cycle of unhealthy romantic relationships.

Scott reacts to a recent podcast featuring a debate between plant-based diet advocate Dr. Joel Kahn, and alternative medicine practitioner Chris Kresser who promotes paleo and a line of supplements.

Coach Scott shares the specifics of his own recent medical lab results to demonstrate how his body has responded to a vegan diet.

Best-selling author and nutrition scientist Dr. T. Colin Campbell joins Coach Scott Abel for a conversation about whole food-plant based diet, as well as commentary on the myths, business, and politics of nutrition.

Scott's clients are frequently asked what they eat to get so lean and stay that way. Their “high-carb diet” answer often surprises people. Scientific research exposes that fat makes you fat, not carbs.

Perspective helps frame an individual's definition of struggle. Some report “struggles” with diet or fitness goals, while others deal with life issues of sickness or the death of a loved one. Scott doesn't think they compare.

Surf's up!! As a follow up episode, Scott applies a surfing analogy to explain program design and mastery for muscle hypertrophy and physique development.

Achieving and maintaining a lean physique is much simpler than the diet and fitness industries might want you to believe. Scott applies the principle of Occam's Razor to illustrate the point.

What's the best training strategy to build a bigger, more muscular physique? Recent research supports what Scott learned and preached in the real world of bodybuilding: training for strength isn't the quickest path to a more muscular physique.

Every superhero needs a super-villain, even in nutrition dogma. Pop science portrays protein as the hero nutritional macro, with carbs playing the bad guy. Research suggests protein may be the real villain.

Lose weight short term on keto…but at what cost? Clinical research highlights the long-term health and cosmetic downsides of the popular low carb, ketogenic diet approach.

We go nuts for nuts in this episode, discussing how nuts deliver a nutritional punch and contribute to metabolism in a way that few other foods do.

This episode explores how our perceptions shape reality; how personal and cultural expectations shape the standard of perfection and influence our own body images.

HGS 2.0! BOOM! Check out the new tweaks that coach Scott Abel has added to his bestselling workout program, the Hardgainer Solution.

Straight from the Inbox, Scott shares emails from clients around the world, received during only a two-day period, raving about their own "breaking vegan" experiences and success stories.

Research shows that diet affects reproductive health. More than a dozen published clinical studies results support plant-based solutions to sexual health issues faced by both men and women.