Category: Fitness
600mg Ashwagandha daily helps resistance trainers build more muscle and lose more fat
If bodybuilders or other strength athletes take ashwagandha they build up more muscle and lose fat more quickly, write Indian researchers in the Journ [...]
Weekends sabotage weight loss attempts
You're doing your best to lose weight, but it's going so slowly – you just wish those excess rolls of fat would disappear more quickly. An American st [...]
Super-pancake: builds muscles and burns fat
If you make pancakes by adding whey to your batter and replacing the flour with resistant starch, then according to sports scientists at Skidmore Coll [...]
Your body burns more calories after a meal with fish oil
Fish oil supplementation boosts energy expenditure after a meal, so it makes weight loss or maintenance of a healthy weight a tiny bit easier. Canadia [...]
Strength athletes gain more strength by training properly
Almost every strength athlete is familiar with the dilemma: should I train 'properly' and therefore use a weight that is nothing special? Or should I [...]
Rutin boosts endurance capacity
Rutin, a flavonoid found in large quantities in our food and also easily available in supplement form, has been shown in animal studies to be an effec [...]
Aging shrinks your brains; cardio makes them grow
After the age of thirty your brain starts to shrink. The process starts very, very slowly, but as you get older the rate at which this happens starts [...]
Half a gram of rutin a day can fight fat
You may have heard of rutin as a compound that protects blood vessels, but according to South Korean researchers the same stuff may offer protection a [...]
L-Citrulline versus exhaustion
If you take the amino acid L-citrulline [structural formula shown below] in combination with intensive exertion you can postpone the moment of exhaust [...]
Burn more fat with triset strength training
Strength athletes can reduce their fat percentage by doing trisets instead of traditional sets, sports scientists at the San Antonio Catholic Universi [...]
Caffeine raises fat burning after strength training
After an intensive workout the body expends extra energy. Researchers suspect that because of this, strength training can help in maintaining a healt [...]
Lose weight faster with vitamin C
We are all so concerned with the obesity epidemic that we tend to look to high-tech science for solutions. In doing so, however, we forget that we can [...]
Intensive exercise is healthier
Exercise is always healthy, even if you get an awful lot of it. We wrote about that recently. But does it matter whether you do high intensity exercis [...]
Curcumin helps damaged muscle recover faster
Curcumin, the yellow colour in the spice turmeric, has a muscle strengthening effect, and this is most pronounced in muscles that are recovering. Acco [...]
Nigella sativa: might not be a testosterone booster, but is an effective slimming supplement
The seeds of Nigella sativa – perhaps better known as black cumin – contain substances that have been shown to boost the secretion of testosterone in [...]
