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Real Growth Hormone for Athletes - Lean Mass ↗, Fat Mass ↓, Water ↑, but Limited Evidence of Performance Increases

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Physique athletes > sprinters > endurance athletes - That's probably the ranking of those athletes who benefit most from GH (ab-)use. Why? Well, its effects on body composition are attractive for BBs & Co, its potential ability to boost anaerobic performance for sprinters and its lack of effect on VO2max limits their use in marathoners to accelerated recovery. If you believe in the claims of the supplement industry, you probably expect extreme gains, significant fat loss and huge performance increases from a boost in natural GH production. Well, guess what: that's another of the lies the industry is based on. There's no "natural GH booster" that will increase the total amount of growth hormone your body produces on a daily basis (early studies also suggest that the effect wears off over time, even if you use the products only every 10 days | Isidori 1981). As reported previously in articles about combinations of various amino acids, some may - if t...
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Eccentric Training Keeps You Gainin' and T & GH Up When, in Weeks 5-10, Traditional Training Stops Yielding Results

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Extra gains, testosterone, and GH in one scientific paper?  That will catch every gymrats interest, right? I know, the name SuppVersity  implies that gains were all, or at least to a significant degree about supplements. In fact, though, they are about busting your ass out in the gym and eating like a freak. And with respect to the former, a new study from the  University of Jyväskylä  in Finland suggests that there is a deeper truth to the former part of this often-heard claim: busting your a** in form of eccentric training, i.e. using the maximal weight you can lift on the concentric and a supra-maximal weight on the eccentric phase of a more will  indeed produce significantly greater increases in maximal voluntary contraction torque (MVC) and (almost) significant increases in muscle gains. Are you trying to optimize your training for gains ? Find inspiration in these articles: What's the Latest on Failure? 36% Extra-Gains W/ Rest-Pause Pyramid-...
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Your Post-Workout Testosterone Levels Can Predict Your Gains - Study Takes Novel Approach to the T ↔ Muscle Link

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GainZ - Are they all about T and we just didn't do the right statistical tests in previous studies to realize that? Only recently one of the longstanding "truths" of protein anabolism has been busted ( learn why the acute muscle protein synthesis response matters more than prev. thought). And now, a new paper in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research (Mangine. 2016), appears to suggest that the lack of effect of exercise induced hormone elevations may have been misunderstood, too. In the conclusion of their study, Mangine et al. point out that the previously used "[t]raditional statistical measures do not adequately assess the relationships between multiple variables that exist across time" (Mangine. 2016). If hormones matter, the  exercise order  should matter, too because it can affect your hormones What's the Right Training 4 You? Hypertrophy Blueprints Fat Loss Support Blueprint Strength Training Blueprints Study: Over...
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Hormonal Response to Exercise, Revisited: A Consequence, not a Determinant of Your Mood, Effort & Performance

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Studies in men suggest no effect of the hormonal response on training outcome - What about women? A news study provides insights that may be relevant for both female and male gymrats. It has been a few years that I last wrote about the "hormonal ghost". Back in the day, Stuart M. Phillips published an excellent paper that debunked the myth of a mechanistic link of post-exercise increases in testosterone, growth hormone, IGF-1 and co., on the one hand, and exercise-induced strength and size gains, on the other hand. And for those for whom Phillip's review of the literature was not convincing enough, Daniel WD West's 2012, which showed none of the expected associations between exercise-induced hormone profiles (first and foremost higher post-workout testosterone levels) and the rate or significance of muscle strength and size gains in a large cohort of young men after weight training, should have been evidence enough to stop believing in "hormonal ghosts",...
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