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Tribulus is Good for Something: 1.25 g/day Modulate IGF-1 Availability and Alleviate Muscle Damage While Promoting Anaerobic Performance of Intensely Trained Male Boxers

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Tribulus terrestris extracts - While the boxing gloved protect a boxers fists from damage, the TT extracts may protect his muscle. Recent study yields surprising results and insights into the performance enhancing effects of TT and why it may have failed to work in previous studies. Yes, it's (a) not a rodent study, (b) published in a peer-reviewed journal, (c) not sponsored by a supplement company (but the Chinese government), and was (d) conducted not just with untrained and mostly sedentary or "recreational trained" human beings, but even with fifteen highly trained male boxers (national second-level athletes, 2–3 years of training) who were recruited from the boxing team of Shanghai University of Sport Affiliated School of Sports in China. This alone makes the latest study from the Shanghai University of Sport newsworthy. The fact that the scientists actually observed significant and practically effects when they 'fed' their subjects 1.25g of a standardize...

Concomitant Training: Cardio Before or After Weights? Cardio First Triggers 916% Increase in Growth Hormone. Plus: 7x Higher Testosterone & 3x Higher IGFBP-3 Peaks

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Run first, lift second to end your workouts on an anabolic tune. I know, judging the anabolic effects of exercise by the post-exercise testosterone, cortisol, growth hormone and IGFBP-3 response is controversial. On the other hand, Claudio Rosa and his colleagues from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro are right, when they argue that "concurrent training (CT),  is  an  effective strategy to improve both cardiorespiratory and neuromuscular functions (26), as well to induce a high-energy expenditure (2, 21)" (Rosa. 2014) that comes with one significant disadvantage; a disadvantage scientists have labeled stimulus interference . A reduction / reduced increase of testosterone and or IGF, of which Rosa et al. state that they are the "most important  anabolic  hormonal  indicators  associated  with  muscle  hypertrophy" would be one of the many potential reasons for said interference. You can learn more about the optimal e...
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