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Things that Belong into Your Gymbag: A Well-Adjusted Boil & Bite. Study Shows Decreased Cortisol Response After Intense Exercise with Custom-Fit Performance Mouthpiece

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Image 1: An Under Armour Performance Mouthpiece - hitherto not a bodybuilder's 1st choice from the Under Armour line-up; something that may change when Cutler & co get wind of its effects on post exercise cortisol levels ;-) Any (semi-)professional boxers out there? No? Football players? Ice-hockey? Lacrosse? Did you ever think of wearing your mouthpieces in the gym? No? Well, I guess then you have not heard about the surprising performance enhancement the stabilization of your temporomandibular joint by a well-adjusted mouthpiece may have on exercise performance and recuperation, have you? Studies into the effects of mouthpieces on exercise performance date back to the late 1970's and early 1980's, when Stephen David Smith published two studies on the effects of mouthguards and jaw posture on strength and exercise performance in the New York State Dentist Journal ( Smith. 1978 ; Smith. 1982 ). In spite of that, a proper, experimentally verified explanation for th...
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Acoustic Gear: The Right Music at the Right Time Can Double your Endorphin and Growth Hormone Levels, Increase Norepinephrine By +50% Over Baseline and Make You Feel Like the King of the Gym...

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Image 1: Attention reading SuppVersity posts and following respective advice may have desirable ergogenic (side-)effects ;-) Does your life rock? No? Did your last gym session suck? Yes? Well, maybe you just don't inject the right gear into your auricle (ear). We all know that listening to music can profoundly influence the way we feel. In the course of the last 20 years scientists from all around the world have been investigating how these musically triggered emotional changes relate to hormonal, neurocrine and even immunological changes and mechanisms and have found, time and again, that music "provides the simplest solution" for symptoms such as pain and hyperactivity, in the treatment of which, "[t]oday, an emphasis has been placed on pharmacological substances" ( Gangrade. 2011 ). Even the idea to substitute your stimulant-loaden preworkout supplement with a full dose of techno music is thus not as outrageou...
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