Category: Fitness
Strict weight loss diet works better if you bend the rules occasionally
Many dieticians advise clients who are following a low-calorie diet to take it easy on pre-selected days and to eat whatever they want on those days. [...]
Strength training fights belly fat better than aerobic training
Men who do strength training keep their fat percentage lower in the long term than men who run, cycle or do other aerobic exercise. Epidemiologists at [...]
Better NO boosters contain a combination of L-arginine and L-citrulline
Sports supplements with amino acids designed to boost the concentration of nitrogen monoxide [NO] work better if they contain not just L-arginine or L [...]
L-Carnitine makes fasting easier and more effective
Fasting for a couple of days every so often is very healthy, but a lot of people find this really difficult. They feel hungry and tired. Doctors at th [...]
Amount of rest between sets makes no difference to strength progression
If you've just started doing strength training and are short of time, then Brazilian sports scientists at the University of Brasilia have good news fo [...]
Optimal resistance training: choose weights according to your energy level
The most effective way to do resistance training is to use a schedule in which you train using different weights each day. On one day you train for ex [...]
Sinetrol: lose a pound a week with orange supplement
If we are to believe the article that has been published in Phytomedicine, there's a little known supplement on the market that helps those rolls of f [...]
Stressed out? Your cortisol level will explode after training
If you are experiencing a lot of psychological stress in your life – for example because there's been a death in your close family, you're going throu [...]
Fat burner carnitine needs carbohydrates
Going by what's written in physiology textbooks, you'd think that the amino acid L-carnitine [structure below] would be a fantastic supplement. Carnit [...]
Q10 combined with light exercise burns more fat
After taking a capsule containing 30 mg of the co-enzyme Q10 [structure shown below] your body spontaneously burns more fat. At least, if you combine [...]
Short rest between strength-training sets results in more muscle
Bodybuilders and other strength athletes who rest for 1 minute between sets build more muscle mass, strength and speed than athletes who rest for 4 mi [...]
Milk, the white ladykiller
You can't have missed it, it's all over the news media: the epidemiological study that researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden published recently [...]
Two years non-stop creatine without side effects
It's safe to take continuous not-too-high doses of creatine. Neurologists at the University of Munich conclude this from the longest-running, most com [...]
Optimal fruit and veg intake is a pound a day, says meta-study
People who want to live as long as possible should eat about a pound a day of fruit and vegetables. Chinese and American nutritionists draw this concl [...]
Physical exercise delays molecular aging by ten years
If you are physically very active, the chances are your genetic material is ten years younger than it would be if you spent your life as a couch pota [...]
