Category: Fitness
Strength training helps keep post-menopausal women slim
Women who are past the menopause gain 0.7 kg weight every year. And their waist measurement increases by 0.7 cm each year too. [Am J Epidemiol. 2004 N [...]
Half an hour a day of cardio works almost as well as an hour
For healthy but slightly overweight people in their twenties and thirties half an hour of cardio training a day has almost the same positive health ef [...]
Swop your desk chair for a therapy ball, and keep slim
If you work at a desk job, you'd burn a couple of dozen more calories if you exchanged your chair for a therapy ball, write researchers at State Unive [...]
Rapid weight loss without losing muscle: combine intermittent fasting and cardio
Sports scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago may have stumbled on the best way for overweight people to lose weight. Their study suggest [...]
Fish oil increases insulin sensitivity only when combined with exercise
Some studies show that fish oil protects humans against type-2 diabetes [J Am Diet Assoc. 2010 Jul; 110(7): 1018-26.], others show that a diet that is [...]
Slow reps: strength training with light weights does give results
Strength athletes, who because of injury or sickness can only train with light weights, can still get a decent training stimulus out of their workouts [...]
Cacao flavonoid (-)-epicatechin inhibits myostatin and strengthens muscles
Cacao contains (-)-epicatechin [structural formula to the right], a flavonoid that improves endurance performance in diabetes, animals studies have sh [...]
Endurance training reduces strength training gains in muscle mass and strength
The combination of endurance training and strength training makes fat people slimmer and healthier, and works better than cardio or strength training [...]
Overweight people can best combine cardio and strength training
Obese people who want to exercise will gain most benefit from combining cardio (or endurance) training and strength training. Researchers at the Unive [...]
Caffeine, not pseudoephedrine, makes triathletes faster
Caffeine doesn't appear on the doping list, pseudoephedrine, on the other hand, does. Endurance athletes who think that illegal pseudo-ephedrine will [...]
Supplement containing ECGC, resveratrol and Grape Seed Extract shown to work
If you were to consume 282 mg EGCG, 200 mg resveratrol, 92 mg Grape Seed Extract and 25 mg polyphenols from wed wine daily, you'd lose 3.4 kg fat in s [...]
Whey or casein before and after your workout?
It makes precious little difference whether you put whey or casein in the shakes that you drink before and after a strength training session. Sports s [...]
High dose of biotin sabotages fat cell growth
Large – but not absurdly so – doses of the vitamin biotin reduce the amount of triglycerides in the blood and they reduce fat mass too. Molecular rese [...]
Whey before workout reduces cortisol level, soya protein doesn’t
Yesterday we wrote that strength athletes build up more lean body mass if they consume whey rather than soya protein or fast carbohydrates just after [...]
Post-workout shake with 22g whey works better than one with 22g soya protein
Strength athletes who consume slightly more protein than the recommended amount for non-athletes build up more lean body mass if they drink a post-wor [...]
