SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

Image 1: Silybum marianum , a medical plant that has been used to treat liver disease for >2,000 years and is a staple in many "post cycle therapy" supplements you can current purchase at your favorite supplement store. Whether or not you are into "performance enhancing drugs" does not really matter. If you have browsed through the range of one of the myriad of on-line supplement vendors, you will have seen them: the "liver protectors" , "supplements for liver health" , or simply "post-cycle recovery" supplements. The most common ingredient, you will see on the labels of supplements listed in these or similar categories, is silymarin , a flavonoid complex consisting of silybin (the most active component), silydanianin and silychristin , which is either extracted or simply contained in a crude extract of the seeds of Silybum marianum , a flowering plant of the daisy family, the manufacturers put into their capsules. While scien...

Actually, it would make as much sense to split this part of the SuppVersity EMG Series in two, if not three individual analyses, as it would to split your leg workout over two if not three days. In practice, however, most trainees go through the grueling torture of the dreaded "leg day" , just once a week and thus I will mirror this practice by writing a similarly gruelingly long blogpost on the best exercises for the major Image 1: The major muscle groups of your legs. Quadriceps, adductors, abductors, gluteus, hamstrings, gastrocnemius & soleus the quadriceps (red) - powerful extensors of the knee joint;crucial in walking, running, jumping and squatting ; strongest and leanest muscle in the human body the gluteus (yellow) - three muscles that make up the buttocks: the gluteus maximus muscle, gluteus medius muscle and gluteus minimus muscle ; the hamstrings (blue) - comprises the semitendinosus, semimembranosus and the short and long head of the bicep...