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Bench Press Pre-Exhaustion (PE) Science: PE Works for Triceps, not Pecs & Delts | Plus: DB, Barbell or Smith M.

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The bench press, an effective exercise for both, men and women. This article addresses both: Doing flys, anterior deltoid raises or triceps extensions before classic barbell bench presses to pre-exhaust the synergists and increase the pectoralis muscle activity during the final press, as well as the differential effect of doing bench presses on the flat bench with dumbbells, barbells and/or the smith machine on the pectoralis, anterior deltoid and triceps activity during the bench press and its consequences on triceps activity during a subsequent cable-pulley triceps extension. Learn more about the best  muscle building exercise at the SuppVeristy Optimizing Rest for Size and Strength Gains Alternating Squats & Bench Presses for Extra GAINS! Equipment, Angle, Grip, etc. Affect Your Pec Dev. Full ROM ➯ Full Gains - Form Counts! Battle the Rope to Get Ripped & Strong Up Your Squat by 25% With Sodium Bicarbonate Pre-exhaustion cannot be expecte...

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...

Nine Short Workouts (AM+PM) p. Week Yield Extra Strength, Size and Performance Gains Compared to Volume Matched 3-Day Split, All Differences are Non-Significant, Though

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15 min in the AM, 15 in the PM = Win? For many of you that may sound laughable, but according to a recent study from the University   of Copenhagen  it is at least as effective as three "mammoth" workouts-sessions per week. What kind of trainee are you? Do you hit the gym thrice a week, spend two hours there and crawl out of the gymdoors totally exhausted? Yeah... Well that means you're not the fitness model guy, who trains twice a day for 15-20 minutes only and swears that this is the only way to do it? After all these questions you're probably asking yourself if the answers you gave in your mind were good or bad for ya? Right? Well, eventually, both forms of training can be equally effective. If we take a closer look at the non-significant study outcomes in a recent paper by scientists from the University of Copenhagen (Kilen. 2015), though body composition and strength may in fact benefit more if you train more frequently - even  if the total workout volume...

The Latest Exercise Science: Weights During Pregnancy, Barbells for Bariatric Surgery Patients and Hypertensives, Mouthguards & Performance Garments and Much More

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Performance garments appear to be particularly beneficial for female trainees. I have to admit that there are no real "block buster" studies to talk about. This does not mean, though, that there were not interesting new papers on exercise science at all. Instead of lengthy elaborations on one or two papers I will thus provide you with a concise overview of the most recent papers from the  The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research  - an overview that includes only papers that have already been published. A review of those that are still ahead of print will follow as soon as the server problems over at Lippincott are settled and I can access them ;-) Read more short news at the SuppVersity Exercise Research Uptake Nov '14 1/2 Exercise Research Uptake Nov '14 2/2 Weight Loss Supplements Exposed Exercise Supplementation Quickie Exercise Research Uptake Jan 12, 2015 Read the Latest Ex. Science Update Physical conditioning for NASCAR ...

Exercise Research Update Nov. '14 (2/2): Vibration Training for Athletes, Caffeine Muscle Size & Power, Time to Psyche Up, Myostatin Resp. to Strength & Comb. Training & More

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Vibration training is for lazy men & women, only - right? It cannot speed up the adaptation process in athletes, right? And it certainly has no effects on body composition, right? Not exactly, scroll down and find out why. For those of you who haven't read yesterday's first installment of this research update, I highly suggest you head over now, or after you've read today's follow up on additional vibration training for athletes, caffeine and the effect of muscle size on the strength boosting effects of caffeine, the benefits of and perfect time to psyche up before a sprint event and the muscular myoastatin response to strength, interval and combined training, to make sure you don't miss half this research update. And if you are not interested in any of these news you may still appreciate the bottom line with a brief review of the latest evidence for the differential or identical effects of strength and hypertrophy training on the acute biochemical and ne...
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