Snippit Sports Science Podcast

Snippit is made possible by listeners like you. Please help support the podcast: ► https://www.patreon.com/snippitscience    Nutritional strategies of high level natural bodybuilders during competition preparation J. Chappell Simper E. Barker   Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition 2018 15:4 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12970-018-0209-z © The Author(s). 2018 Published: 15 January 2018   Abstract   Background Competitive bodybuilders employ a combination of resistance training, cardiovascular exercise, calorie reduction, supplementation regimes and peaking strategies in order to lose fat mass and maintain fat free mass. Although recommendations exist for contest preparation, applied research is limited and data on the contest preparation regimes of bodybuilders are restricted to case studies or small cohorts. Moreover, the influence of different nutritional strategies on competitive outcome is unknown.   Methods Fifty-one competitors (35 male and 16 female) volunteered to take part in