Editorial standards

1. Scope

The Hub publishes on resistance training, muscle gain, strength, body composition and eating to support training, for healthy adults aged 18 and over. It deliberately does not publish on diagnosis, injury rehabilitation, disordered eating, clinical nutrition or medication. Where a subject crosses that line, the page says so and points the reader to a clinician instead of guessing.

2. One named author

Every page is written and checked by Chris Mann Dip.IOPN, who is accountable for it. Pages are not anonymous, aggregated from other sites, or generated and published without review. Where an assistive tool is used during drafting, the final text, every number and every citation is checked line by line by the author before publication.

3. Claims must be supportable

A page may state a fact, a range or a rule of thumb. It may not state a guarantee. The Hub does not publish invented statistics, invented testimonials, invented credentials, before-and-after promises or claims about rates of progress that published evidence does not support. Where evidence is genuinely uncertain, the page says it is uncertain rather than choosing a confident-sounding number.

4. Numbers are consistent across the library

Training and nutrition figures used repeatedly — weekly set ranges, rep ranges, protein intake, rate of weight change, rest periods — come from one shared internal reference rather than being re-typed per page. That is why the same number appears in the same form everywhere on the Hub. If a figure is revised, it is revised once and every page that quotes it changes with it.

5. Sourcing

Substantive claims are referenced to published position stands, systematic reviews, meta-analyses or primary trials, with a link. Full detail is in the evidence and referencing policy.

6. Safety takes precedence over everything else

Safety limits are not adjustable by a reader, an editor or an advertiser. Pages carry the same standing advice: this is educational information for adults, not medical advice, and anyone pregnant or recently postpartum, recovering from surgery, injury or illness, taking medication, living with a heart, lung, metabolic or joint condition, or with a history of disordered eating should speak to a health professional first.

7. Dates mean something

Each page shows when it was last reviewed. A date changes only when the page was actually re-read and either corrected or confirmed. Dates are never refreshed automatically or bumped to look current.

8. Independence from commercial interests

Advertising and commercial relationships do not determine the Hub’s editorial conclusions. The Hub may display advertising, including within article pages, and may include clearly identifiable promotion or links relating to Bodywise products and services. Advertising and promotional material are kept distinct from editorial content and do not determine the evidence, recommendations or conclusions presented. The Hub does not accept payment from advertisers to alter its editorial conclusions.

9. Corrections

Errors are fixed openly rather than quietly. See the corrections policy, and report anything you believe is wrong through the contact page.