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Are You Still Wasting Money on Amino Acid Blends, When Plain Whey Protein Pumps More Protein Into the Muscle & Turns Endurance into Strength Type Fibers?

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The indoctrination machine of the supplement industry is pretty efficient. At least that's what I gather from the "bro-talk" in my own gym - I guess you know what I mean, right? If there is something free form amino acids products can do that plain whey cannot do, it's increasing the revenue of their producers. No wonder that they are touted as "almost as potent as illegal gear" and sold for prices that make me roll with the eyes. Dozens of patented "optimal" BCAA - leucine : valine : isoleucine - ratios and "superior anabolic blends" ... come on, you are beyond believing every lie you are dished up, aren't you? You never gave in to the temptation? Right you were! A recent study from Japan confirms once more: It's complete proteins trigger complete growth effects, their individual amino acids, which were used in the control arm of a recent (unfortunately) rodent study from the Meiji Company Limited, the Graduate School of A...

True or False: The Occasional Weekend Alcohol Binge Does not Hamper Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy, Will Not Decrease Testosterone and Cannot Impair Your Strength & Recovery

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Brain & muscle get along astonishingly well. Booze & muscle don't. A glass of wine from time to time. That's not a proper rhyme and probably less beneficial for your health than the rave press-released about "French Paradoxes" and the potent health effects of the negligible amounts of resveratrol in red wine would suggest, but it's certainly not as bad as a regular weekend binge - a habit with health consequences that go far beyond the well-known damaging effects on the liver. It has also been associated with reductions in brain volume (Liesdahl. 2013) and acute reductions in grey matter blood supply (Serrador. 2013). Regular alcohol consumption will also increases the risk of stroke (Rantakömi. 2014), messes with cardiovascular health (Ryu. 2014) and disturbs your sleep (Canham. 2014). Better consume protein than alcohol learn why at the SuppVersity Are You Protein Wheysting? Cod protein for recovery Protein requ. of athletes High E...

High Intensity Training + Mesterolone Yield Muscle- and Fiber-Type Specific Size Gains Of Up To 100% & More

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Want to learn more about fiber types? ➫ review past SuppVersity articles I am not telling you a secret, when I say that testosterone alone - in the absence of training - will lead to significant increases in skeletal muscle mass (if you think that sounds like a secret you must have missed my previous article from the "Intermittent Thoughts on Building Muscle" series | read more ). To a certain extend, the same is true for DHT ( learn more ), and - as a recent 6-week rodent study by Karina Fontana, Gerson E. R. Campos, Robert S. Staron and Maria Alice da Cruz-Höfling shows even by the structurally similar, orally bioavailable derivative Mesterolone (aka Proviron ), which produces pretty drastic, fiber-type specific increases in muscle size, when it is administered in super-physiological doses for 6 weeks (Fontana. 2013). AAS +/- HIT = ? Basically the question the researchers from the universities of Campinas (Brazil) and Ohio had in mind, when they came up with the...

Taurine Pumps Up Strength & Recovery in Response to Eccentric Curls. NAC Decreases Peformance & Boosts Fat Oxidation!? Exercise Reduces, Caloric Restriction Increases Inflammation. Carnitine Rescues Fast Twitch Muscle

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Blood glucose alone would not last for 90s of running up the stairs. 80 minutes! That's the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and the impressive timespan you could (theoretically) fuel your energy demands during exercise at 70% of your VO2max from your muscle glycogen stores. The latter hold the energetic equivalent of ~1,500kcal and are thus an almost 40x larger reservoir of energy than the tiny amounts of glucose that's floating around in your bloodstream (data based on Gleeson. 2008). If you had to rely on that alone, you would pass out after 2 mins of the previously mentioned exercise at 70% VO2max. Obviously no workout is going to be fueled 100% exclusively by glucose/glycogen, so that you can still use the amount of energy your body stores in the fat cells (~93,000kcal) and in form of tissue proteins (~49,000kcal) and keep running for another 7,400 minutes or 5.13 days... theoretically Enough of the figures let's get to some recent research results Yo...

Classic Beats Super Slow; Single 198 Second Sprint More Time Efficient Than Work-Matched HIIT; Exercise Better Than THC; Metformin + Cardio + Lifting = Anti-Obesity Triplet; Self-Efficiacy & Training Adherence - Plus: More!

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This is just a random selection of the unlimited movement patterns your body has been designed to execute - don't make the mistake and rely on only one of them! The amount of really interesting, let alone revolutionary new studies on the effects of different exercise modalities is not exactly high, to say the least. I am not quite sure, what the reasons are, but as I have stated before, part of it certainly is that you cannot monetize on the results by producing patentable drugs based on your findings and will thus have a hard time to find sponsors / get funding. It is therefore no wonder that many published papers are spin-offs of small scale trials that have been conducted as part of dissertations. Others simply use rodent models, which may provide relatively reliable data, when it comes to the effects of running on a treadmill, but are not exactly what I would want to see, when it comes to weight lifting or any other of the myriad complex movement patterns our bodies can , b...

"80-85% 1RM, 6-10 Reps"? Changes in Muscle Fiber-Type in Response to Classic, Super Slow and Light Training Confirm "Old School Training" Rules and Will Always Prevail!

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Image 1: If you don't want to be strong and look good naked, you better not train like "old school" like Arnold, Franco Columbu (img), Dave Draper, Frank Zane & Co. Although, I do assume that you just dropped everything, went home from work early, or simply did not leave the house at all to be able to listen to my appearance on Carl Lanore's Super Human Radio , yesterday, I know that sometimes more important things (whatever that may be) get into one's way and will thusly give you a second chance, today (click here to download the podcast )... well, so far for the humorous part of this post. Assuming that by now, you did listen to the podcast you should remember that I promised to have something about exercise and strength training in the news, today. And as Carl will probably assert, Super Humans usually stick to their promises, although - and I did mention that yesterday, as well - the number of significant studies, i.e. studies that do not involve ...
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