Category: Training
Leucine stimulates muscle growth without training
Supplementation with leucine results in a small increase in the muscle mass of over 65s without them having to train. Researchers at Leeds Beckett Un [...]
Caffeine raises fat burning after strength training
After an intensive workout the body expends extra energy. Researchers suspect that because of this, strength training can help in maintaining a healt [...]
HMB makes athletes fitter and faster
Rowers, runners, swimmers, cyclists and other endurance athletes build up more stamina if they take 3 g HMB every day, write Polish nutritionists at [...]
Heat treatment boosts anabolic effect of strength training
We're not quite sure how strength athletes can apply the principle that Japanese sports scientists have written about in the Journal of Physiological [...]
Muscle growth is the same whether you do high-intensity or high-volume resistance training
Resistance training where you use weights with which you can manage 10-14 reps and take rests of several minutes in between probably results in just a [...]
Small amount of BCAAs and L-arginine prevents cardio-induced muscle breakdown
A cardio session – especially when done after strength training – has lots of positive health effects, but cardio exercise breaks down muscle tissue. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Upbeat cardio session burns more fat
According to the textbooks, in terms of the energy you burn it makes little difference whether you walk or run. It's the distance that determines how [...]
Do your cardio after weight training and burn more fat
If you do weight training and cardio, you probably do your cardio after the weight training. This order of doing things is beneficial, as this way rou [...]
Human study: the effects of 600 mg nandrolone decanoate per week
Little scientific research has been done on the effects of high-dosage courses of anabolic steroids. There have been some epidemiological studies, but [...]
