Category: Bodybuilding
Microwaves speed up muscle recovery after strength training
Strength athletes who use microwaves for their muscles a day before training recover more quickly from their workout. The treatment has an anticatabol [...]
BCAAs + glutamine may raise your testosterone levels
Strength athletes produce more testosterone, and less cortisol, if they take a handful of caps containing BCAAs plus glutamine every day, write resear [...]
Calcium supplement raises free testosterone levels in athletes
The concentration of free testosterone in athletes after training is higher if the athletes have more calcium in their system. Sports scientists at th [...]
Why it’s worth combining IGF-1 and GH
It would of course be expensive, but in theory there's a lot to be said for combining growth hormone [structure shown below] and IGF-1, writes the Dut [...]
The best carbs for your whey shake are found in honey
It doesn't really make an awful lot of difference which easily absorbable carbohydrates strength athletes use for their protein shakes. According to a [...]
Strength training increases testosterone by 40%
Strength training is really a kind of hormone therapy, write researchers at the Spanish University of Extramadura in the European Journal of Applied P [...]
To-failure set with light weights before your regular sets: more muscle strength, more muscle mass
Bodybuilders and other strength athletes can probably build more strength and muscle mass if, before doing their usual sets, they first do a set of lo [...]
HMB raises bodybuilder’s growth hormone and IGF-1 levels
Supplementation with the bodybuilding supplement HMB – full name beta-hydroxy-beta-methyl-butyrate – inhibits catabolic processes and stimulates anabo [...]
More arginine – more muscles, less fat
Give rats L-arginine [structural formula shown below] in their food and they become slimmer and more muscular. Even if you feed them more calories the [...]
Cocoa boosts nitric oxide
A mere six grams a day of dark chocolate can help reduce high blood pressure in older men and women. The thirty milligrams of polyphenols contained in [...]
More vitamin D, more muscle mass
If you have an optimal amount of vitamin D in your blood – which surprisingly few people actually do – you'll have more muscle mass than if your vitam [...]
Creatine boosts protective effect of resistance training on bone mass
Especially women, but men too, start to lose a little bone mass each year after the age of forty. The pace at which bone breaks down increases with ag [...]
Green lip mussel extract reduces damage to muscles after extreme exertion
If you take green lip mussel extract for a couple of weeks and then subject your muscles to unusually heavy exertion, you can reduce the unavoidable m [...]
The best way to do interval training
Even more explosive exertion, for even shorter bursts, with even shorter rests in between: according to sports scientists at Lillehammer University Co [...]
Extra hour sleep raises testosterone level by 12 percent
Aging men's testosterone decline is largely due to the fact that older men sleep less well than younger men. Endocrinologists at the National Universi [...]