Category: Sports
Creatine keeps inactive muscle strength up
Broken your arm recently? Has an injury stopped you from training for a while? Or just no time to train? If you're worried about losing muscle bulk an [...]
Endurance athletes prepare better for races with a low-carb diet
Endurance athletes who are preparing for competitions may achieve better results if they cut their carbohydrate consumption right down, and replace th [...]
Brewer’s yeast boosts endurance capacity
Supplements that contain lots of piece of genetic material – or nucleotides as theyr'e called – enhance athletes' endurance capacity, according to a h [...]
Strength athletes don’t need at-failure sets to achieve growth
Even if strength athletes don't squeeze all the reps possible out of their sets they can still give their muscles the growth stimulus they need, and b [...]
Whey improves endurance athlete’s stamina
The tens of thousands of wonderful readers of this free web magazine are familiar with whey as an easily absorbed protein that promotes muscle recover [...]
Court hearing for CrossFit researchers
The American sports scientists Steven Devor and Michael Smith are being taken to court. In November 2013 they published a study on the effects of 10 w [...]
High frequency training works just as well as low frequency training
Bodybuilders gain just as much strength and muscle mass by following a traditional split schedule as they do if they train all muscle groups in one se [...]
Endurance athletes perform better if they eat almonds instead of cookies
Endurance athletes perform better if they ban cookies and other starch and sugar-loaded foods from their diet, and replace them with almonds. A human [...]
Resisted sprints make athletes faster and more agile
If you want to become faster and more agile it's worth adding resisted sprints to your training: 20 to 40 metre sprints that are made more difficult b [...]
Strength training increases success of attempts to quit smoking
People who stop smoking are more often successful if they start strength training at the same time. Researchers at Brown University in the US think th [...]
Allopurinol helps prevent football injuries
We can imagine that football clubs might soon be asking their costly football players to take allopurinol, a medicine for gout. Our prediction comes a [...]
Sleeping longer makes athletes faster
If athletes force themselves to sleep two hours longer every day, their reaction speed increases and they get faster. Sleep researchers at Stanford Un [...]
Sodium bicarbonate for strength training?
Imagine: a gym near you organises a competition in which you have to do as many reps as possible of bench presses using your own bodyweight. In a case [...]
Citicoline speeds up damaged nerve recovery
Citicoline – alias cytidine-5'-disphosphocholine – is a legal smart drug; it's a precursor of phosphatidylcholine and acetylcholine. According to an a [...]
Pycnogenol reduces muscle cramp in athletes
It's not completely convincing, this Italian study on the preventive effect of the supplement Pycnogenol on muscle cramp and muscular pain. But still: [...]