Category: Sports
Are squats or leg press better for legs?
If you do strength training to improve your sports performance or your general physical functioning in every day life, you can forget about leg-pre [...]
600mg of Ashwagandha helps with building muscle and burning fat
If bodybuilders or other strength athletes take ashwagandha they build up more muscle and lose fat more quickly, write Indian researchers in the Jour [...]
Boost strength in size in 6 days with Alpha-GPC
Athletes for whom strength or speed is important can boost their chance of success by taking 600 mg alpha-glycerylphosphorylcholine [abbreviated to [...]
Build more muscle with Eccentric strength training
Strength training using extremely heavy weights, with which athletes can only manage the return (eccentric) part of the movement on their own, buil [...]
Protect muscle breakdown with L-carnitine
A daily dose of 2 g L-carnitine protects athletes' muscles from breaking down, according to a human study that sports scientists at the Islamic Azad [...]
Whey protein works better combined with added extras
Strength athletes with a bit of nous don't just consume whey, but mix it with substances like creatine, beta-alanine, HMB and sodium bicarbonate, to [...]
Damaged tendons heal faster with Vitamin B
A hefty dose of vitamin B5 – aka pantothenic acid – speeds up the healing of wounds. Researchers at the French institute Inserm discovered this in t [...]
Chia Seed oil for Endurance athletes?
Some years ago we wrote that endurance athletes perform well on chia seed. This is not the case for chia seed oil, according to an article in Nutr [...]
Strength training + glass of milk + tablespoon leucine = more muscle
You do resistance training and you want to build muscle, but you can't be bothered with all those fiddly protein shakes. Why not just add 4 g leucin [...]
High reps good for building muscle mass, not 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 [...]
Why it’s best to train big muscle groups first and then the smaller muscles
Do your squats first, and then calf presses. Do bench presses first, and then triceps extensions. You train big muscle groups first and then the smal [...]
Eating more than 45 g protein per meal won’t get you more muscle
The results of the study that sports scientists at the University of Mississippi published in Clinical Nutrition may seem obvious to regular readers [...]
Isolation exercises for strength training require longer recovery time
The more isolation exercises that strength athletes use in their workout, the longer their muscles need to recover. Sports scientists at the Universi [...]
Curcumin more glycogen, less lactic acid, more stamina, more strength
Curcumin supplementation may be of interest to endurance athletes. This is suggested by a Taiwanese animal study in which a relatively low dose of cu [...]
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 [...]