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Bicarbonate + Beta-Alanine Supplementation, HIT Exercise Performance and Energy Substrates in 71 Trained Cyclists

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If there's one take-home message from the study at hand, it is: While both SB& BA work, it depends on the sport/exercise test if the effects will be significant. If you've been following my articles at the  SuppVersity  for some time, you will know that I have covered beta-alanine and sodium bicarbonate , two of the few ergogenic supplements for which we have enough evidence to assume that they actually work, extensively in the past. You will yet also remember that the synergistic effects you'd expect to see when you combine intra- (beta alanine) and extra-cellular (sodium bicarbonate) H+ buffers didn't show in every pertinent study in the  SuppVersity  archive. Danaher, et al. (2014) , for example, found no effect of combining both during performance test with fixed intensity and volume, while  Tobias et al. (2013) , whose study tested upper body performance and didn't limit either intensity or volume, did - it almost doubled the total work th...
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Cutting Carbs After PM HIIT Workouts Will Make You Cross the Finish Line Before Anyone Else: 3% Faster Time Trial, 9% More Power and Twice as Much Fat Mass Lost in 7 Days

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Don't be a fool. Simply eating no carbs in the PM is not going to yield the same results. It's all about timing it correctly with your workouts... workouts? Yes, bad  news: you got to get off the couch, bro; workout daily: one light, one HIIT day. I've written about the adaptational response to "training low", i.e. doing endurance training on a low carbohydrate diet previously. In January, this year, for example, I have reported the results of a study from the French National Institute of Sport  that showed that strategically cutting carbs in the PM and thus "sleeping low" will trigger game-changing Performance gains in only 3 weeks ( read the article ). Now, the scientists go one better: In their latest study, Laurie-Anne Marquet and colleagues investigated the effect on an even shorter timescale - a timescale that is short enough to consider "sleeping low" as a possible  pre-competition strategy... well, assuming that it would work its ...
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Blood Flow Restriction in Athletes: Did We Get it All Wrong? Must BFR-Cuffs be Worn After, not During Each Set?

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If that's you. It's well possible that you've done it all wrong. Wearing the cuffs after the set may be the way to go! You may have followed up on my recent suggested read in the SuppVersity Facebook News  and read up on the recent scientific debate on the (non-)usefulness of training with cuffs ( BFR-style ). Well, after reading the full text of a recent study by Conor W. Taylor et al. (2015), I have to say: Maybe we have only done it wrong. In their study, the researchers from the  Loughborough University in Leicestershire had their subjects, 28 healthy trained males who were cycling 120 ± 66 km per week, all cuffed up after  each set of a standardized sprint training. That's very dufferent from trying to sprint with cuffs on your legs (and usually reduced intensity) and appears to be - that's at least what the study results suggest - a potential game-changer. You can learn more about BFR and Hypoxia Training at the SuppVersity BFR, Cortis...
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