V Shred - Fitness & nutrition guidance

About the app

Are you ready to prioritize your health and fitness? With the innovative V Shred fitness app, now you can. This app makes fitness and nutrition guidance enjoyable, straightforward, and easily accessible. It offers tailored programs that cater to your unique body type and fitness aspirations. You can conveniently access all your workouts, dietary information, and select from a variety of tasty recipes directly on your smartphone. If you are prepared to embark on a journey toward a new version of yourself, then V Shred is here for you.

What's new

We update the V Shred app as often as possible to provide you with various quality of life improvements and bug fixes.

This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes, providing users with an even smoother program experience.

Now carry on smashing those fitness goals!

More details

V Shred: Diet & Fitness is an innovative application designed to empower users with personalized health and fitness routines. Offering a versatile platform, it tailors programs suited to individual body types and objectives, making this app a comprehensive tool for anyone looking to enhance their physical wellbeing. Whether seeking structured workouts or nutritional plans, it provides a wealth of diet information along with a variety of appetizing recipes. Utilize your smartphone to access a transformative fitness journey effortlessly. Should personal development and a healthier lifestyle be the pursuit, this platform stands ready to assist in achieving a revitalized version of yourself.

What Is the VShred Diet?

The VShred diet is an eating plan that accompanies VShred workouts

The diet is primarily constructed around one fundamental concept: That your body type should determine what you should eat. More specifically, VShred builds its meal plans around three body types:

Endomorphs: People who naturally have higher amounts of fat and muscle. They tend to gain weight more easily than other types.

Ectomorphs: People who are naturally leaner. They tend to have gain weight less easily than other types.

Mesomorphs: People who have a natural ability to gain muscle and lose fat.

From there, VShred offers two options for its diet plans: one based on carb cycling, a nutritional practice with a goal of muscle gain and weight loss, and the other on counting macronutrients (or "macros"): protein, carbohydrates, fat.

VShred offers you basic meal plans for these diets and then option to pay for a customized meal plan.

The basic meal plans are low in calories, with some dipping below 1,200 calories a day. Otherwise, the foods on the meal plans include normal, everyday choices that most people can find in a supermarket. Sweet potatoes. Blueberries. Chicken breast.

What Does the VShred Diet Cost?

That depends.

Each program is advertised for between $47 and $99, but there are plenty of upsells, including meal plans and supplements.

Does the VShred Diet Work?

It may, at least for the short-term. But that's not because of any little-known scientific loophole or diet plan engineered for your body type.

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Let's take VShred's first claim: that Harvard-backed weight-loss loophole.

The "loophole" is actually the hormone irisin, which, yes, Harvard studied way back in 2012, but there's been very little published about it from a solid scientific research standpoint since. To me as a dietitian, that's a red flag.

VShred diets also cite TRPV1, a receptor that helps produce brown fat, which is a type of fat that may help burn calories. TRPV1 has also been studied ... in mice and lab dishes; not humans. (Another flag.)

Then let's look at body-type-specific dieting.

“The reality is there is zero evidence to support these body types and zero evidence to suggest you need to eat differently according to someone's categorization of your body to these 'body types,'" says Layne Norton, Ph.D., a nutritional sciences researcher. To put a finer point on it: "VShred's marketing is long on claims but utterly devoid of evidence," Norton says.

To summarize, although VShred does link to studies in marketing material and point to its glowing testimonials as evidence that their diet works, the bulk of that research is preliminary and inconclusive. And, as of yet, no clinical research has been done on the VShred diet specifically.

To step back a bit more, yes, you may still lose weight after going on a VShred diet. But that’s not because of any fancy loopholes or body-type-adjusted plans. It's because the VShred diet is low in calories. Anytime you can maintain a calorie deficit for any length of time, you’ll lose weight.

But just because a diet helps you lose weight doesn't mean it's great for you.