Category: Science
Bodybuilders know the healthy way to lose weight
Most people who lose weight become less healthy as a result. People who want to become thinner and stay healthy are best off doing that in the bodybu [...]
Dieting is unhealthy
Overweight is unhealthy, but fat people who lose weight may actually become even more unhealthy. That's the devilish dilemma facing millions of fat [...]
Leucine supplement boosts fat burning
Strength athletes who use leucine [structural formula shown below] say that they lose fat as a result. Their claims may be founded. According to an an [...]
The combined effect of whey, creatine and glucose
A shake containing just whey works just as well as a shake containing whey and glucose. A shake containing whey, glucose and creatine is a different k [...]
How safe is Trenbolone?
Thousands of bodybuilders inject themselves with trenbolone despite the fact that we know so little about the side effects of this anabolic steroid. T [...]
6 weeks of fish oil: lose a pound of fat and gain a pound of lean body mass
If you're not afraid to take more than the manufacturer's recommended dose, you can lose extra fat and gain extra muscle tissue with a harmless supple [...]
Strength training with high reps great for building muscle mass, not for building strength
If you do weight training to build muscle mass, you may as well use weights that you can do 30 reps with instead of weights that you can only manage 1 [...]
Study: strength training just as effective without doing sets to failure
Honestly speaking we – the ignorant but pig-headed compilers of this gratis web magazine – don't believe a word of the human study that Australian spo [...]
Taurine doubles testosterone level: animal study
The amino acid taurine is a real testosterone booster, Chinese animal scientists from the Shenyang Agricultural University write in Amino Acids. The r [...]
Two grams creatine works, and it won’t make you heavier
Even though creatine is still the best sports supplement on the market, many athletes don't use it. They are afraid that the energy supplement will ma [...]
Strength athletes train better with citrulline malate
Take 8 g citrulline malate before pumping iron and you'll manage more reps per set. The more sets you manage, the bigger the effect of supplementation [...]
Eleven weeks’ not to-failure training just as effective as eleven weeks’ to-failure
Athletes that do two months of weight training, without sticking it out to the last rep in their sets, make just as much progress as the athletes that [...]
Rhodiola rosea extends life in animal study
Microscopic worms can live 15 percent longer when given small quantities of Rhodiola rosea, write cell biologists from the University of Utrecht in Bi [...]
Two grams ginger reduces muscle soreness by a quarter
You haven't been training for a while, but you want to start pumping iron again. Or you want to experiment with a new training schedule, but you know [...]
Resistance training and cardio training offer protection against burnout
Employees, freelance workers and entrepreneurs are less likely to succumb to a burnout if they do an intensive training session twice a week. Psycholo [...]