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.

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.

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.

What’s the deal with food cravings? Are they physiological or psychological, or something else? How to successfully overcome them? Scott and Andy offer practical, everyday ways to succeed.

Scott’s clients JP and Byron—who have lost a combined 170 lbs.—join the show, talking about how they’ve used the Cycle Diet, intelligent workout routines and internal discipline to transform their physiques.

Scott shares observations and useful lessons learned about diet, training, and life in general, during his annual vacation to Aruba… lessons that can be leveraged for personal transformation.