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Cannabis, Basketball Shoes With Cushioning and the Brain-Building Effect(s) of Your Beloved Hypertrophy Workouts

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Cannabis is bad for athletes,... well, unless they're asthmatics; and in that case they'd better use beta-agonists, which have welcome previously discussed ergogenic "side effects". It's April and time for another installment of the SuppVersity Short News about sports medicine and related topics. In articles like the one at hand, I discuss a selection of recent studies - usually from a single journal like, in this case, the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport  and often, as in this case, based on papers that have been accepted for publication, already but haven't been published, yet. In today's installment we'll deal with cannabis, shoe cushings and the brain building (BDNF boosting effects) of hypertrophy-oriented resistance training... and, not to forget, the fallacy of taking into account only exercise-induced stressors, when you periodize your training. Read about more or less exercise-related studies at the SuppVersity Alcohol, Mi...
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True Alternate Day Fast Beats Classic Dieting: Max. Fat, Min. Muscle Loss, No 'Metabolic Damage' in 32 Wk Human Study

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This is exactly the way your plate will look during true alternate day fasting. This study is not just about alternate day fasting aka ADF. It is about "true alternate day fasting" - What is that? Well, it's not an official medical term, yet, but if you hadn't read about "alternate day fasting" regimens at the SuppVersity before, you'd probably think that an "alternate day fast" would be a full fast as in "not eating anything" every 48h - like in "Monday, don't eat; Tuesday, eat regularly, Wednesday, don't eat; Thursday, eat regularly..." As of now, only a handful of rodent studies tested (quite successfully, though) these "true alternate fasting" regimen, while human studies often used reduced, but never no energy intakes on the fasting days. That's until now, though! Scientists from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus randomized decently healthy, but obese adults BMI 30 kg/m², age...
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BDNF-Driven Athletic Brain Optimization For Wise Guys: Better Hard, Than Long, But Always Without Interruptions

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Believe it or not, a "smart" brain is not necessarily a healthy brain. Nevertheless, if Einstein had worked out regularly and lived a couple of years (better decades ;-) longer, he may have had a change to figure out the missing link between his Theory of Relativity and the Quantum Theory ;-) "Workout for your brain!" If you were a member of the club of sedentary couch-potato, you would probably be thinking of Dr. Kawashima or similar IQ games on one of your beloved gaming devices. As a diligent student of the SuppVersity and life-long follower of physical culture, you will yet be aware that the imperative "Work out for your brain!" has to be understood quite literally. After all, there have been dozens of studies to show how exercise benefits the brain of young and old, sick and healthy, lean and obese individuals. In this context scientists often measure a peptide that goes by the name brain-derived neurotrophic factor , or short BDNF, which has ...
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Science Round-Up Seconds: Nicotine's Effect on Brain Aromatase & the Consequences, 2D:4D Digit Ratio Predicts Testosterone Response to Sprinting and All the Anti-Obesity & Pro-Brain Effects W/ Just 2 Cups of Coffee per Week?

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Wallaby Lachie Turner (left), Greg Inglis (centre) & Jarryd Hayne (Stuff.co.nz) - who would have thought that the relative length of their 2nd and 4th digit could predict their testosterone response after the sprint? Not you? Well, then you got to check out the first of the short-items at the bottom. Those of you who have listened to yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on Super Human Radio, will have realized that the show did - as usual - take a somewhat different direction than originally planned. Before I get to the actual SuppVersity Round-Up Seconds , of which there actually weren't all too many I consider absolutely newsworthy and appropriate for a written format, I thought I would briefly mention the paper on which I based the hypothesis (remember: this is nothing certain ) that there may be a link between the calcium-influx into the muscle and the strength and hypertrophy effects of performance enhancing drugs (spec. those with a high a...
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Broccoli No Superfood? Female Orgasm, What's It Good For? Can Piperine Make You Lean? Skinfold Thickness, An Exact Indicator of Insulin Sensitivity? Exercise, Cortisol, BDNF, Fatigue, IGF, Pollution, NOPE, EGCG & More!

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Alberto Contador almost certainly wouldn't benefit from the use of a nitrate supplement. 17 seconds and 5 watts! Those are the SuppVersity figures of the week and the performance "increases" which were associated with the consumption of either 0.5 L nitrate-boosting beetroot (BR) juice over a 0.5 L placebo (PLA) drink with blackcurrant juice during time trials and repeated maximal sprints, respectively, in 10 male elite cyclists who are competing at the highest domestic level in a study that was conducted by P. M. Christensen, M. Nyberg and J. Bangsbo from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark (Christensen. 2012). What does sound as if it could make the difference between victory and defeat, was however statistically non-significant and is further evidence of the fact that things that work in rookies are not necessarily advantageous for highly trained athletes (for nitrates benefits have been reported in untrained or recreationally active individuals by e.g. Ba...
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