"Prioritize resistance training above all nutrition strategies A researcher with a PhD in nutrition — someone who has devoted their career to food science — concluded after years of study that lifting weights is categorically more powerful than diet for changing body composition. "Resistance training is by far the most powerful tool to change your body composition. It's not really even close." Without the mechanical stimulus from training, even perfect protein intake and calorie management produces only marginal, non-appreciable lean mass gains. Source: Lane Norton, Forever Strong Experience, Nutrition and Body Composition Episode"