Category: Science
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 [...]
Aloe vera as a slimming supplement
Too fat? Take two aloe vera capsules at breakfast and another two with lunch. Do that for two months and guess what? You lose almost a kilo of fat an [...]
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 [...]
The unusual anabolic effect of Ajuga turkestanica
There's a kernel of truth in the hyperbole-ridden ads for ThermoLife's bodybuilding supplement E-Bol. [thermolife.com] E-Bol contains an extract of [...]
Strong muscles = strong immune system
The riper the age you reach, the worse your immune system functions, and it declines more each year. At a certain point it becomes so weak that a sim [...]
400-mg capsule of L-ornithine improves sleep
If, every evening before going to sleep, you take a capsule containing 400 mg L-ornithine, the quality of your sleep will gradually improve. You'll f [...]
Royal Jelly maintains testosterone levels during modest steroid cycle
Royal Jelly helps maintain testosterone levels while using anabolic steroids in moderate amounts, Iranian researchers discovered when they were exper [...]
How many times a week strength athletes should train muscle groups?
As far as American sports scientist Brad Schoenfeld can tell from the literature, bodybuilders and fitness fanatics make more progression by training [...]
Green tea inhibits cortisol synthesis
Green tea is a cortisol inhibitor, and it may well be a very effective one. Pharmacologists at University Medical School Schleswig-Holstein in German [...]
High-intensity cardio too much for obese people
They are wildly popular, the fast but high-intensity fitness training sessions that gyms advertise to lure new members. The promise of a fitter, sli [...]
Building muscles without testosterone
If you've got no testosterone in your body you can't build up muscles, say the textbooks. Not so, say sports scientists at the University of Maryland [...]
You benefit from strength training just as much in your 60’s as in your 30’s
If men in their sixties start doing strength training they don't build up just as much muscle mass as men in their thirties do. But we shouldn't exag [...]
Supplement with lactic acid and caffeine makes athlete’s muscles bigger
If you and I even vaguely resemble the lab rats that sports scientists at Ritsumeikan University in Japan use for their experiments, then it would s [...]
Soya protein + HMB has same anabolic effect as whey
There are now a respectable number of studies that show that whey has a slighter stronger anabolic effect than soya protein. But researchers at Aarh [...]
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 [...]