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Physique Athletes Not Prone to Metab./Hormonal 'Damage', Recent Pilot Study in 15 Male & Female Athletes Suggests

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Even though the study has male and female study participants this study is still more geared towards the men - why else do we have testosterone, but not estrogen measurements? As the scientists point out as early as in the title, a recent paper by Trexel et al. (2017) is indeed (at best) a "pilot study" to "evaluate changes in body composition, metabolic rate, and hormones during post-competition recovery" in "physique athletes". In view of the lack of reliable data from the contest preparations o bodybuilders and other physique-sport athletes, even this "pilot" data is more than worth reporting. That's particularly true, because it is still not clear, as Trexel et al. write whether the "physiological effects of contest preparation persist after competition" and thus whether "they may predispose [...] to preferential gain of fat mass and prolonged, deleterious endocrine side effects" (Trexel 2017) Read about rather...
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Alternate Day Fasting: Well-Researched, Proven to Be Effective. So Why Don't You Use It? Plus: Simple Alternate Day Fasting Blueprints to Get You Beach Ready in 2014

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Alternate , better than intermittent fasting? I know the hardcore "Martin Berkhan Intermittent Fasters" are laughin', whenever they hear about alternate day fasting. What I don't know, though, if whether they will still be laughing, after they read this article, which is a brief summary of the latest research on a way of "dieting" with immediate beneficial effects on body weight, body composition, glucose and fatty acid metabolism that is. For 99% of the population it is also  much more feasible than the classic "everyday intermittent fast" that was popularized by Markin Berkhan's Lean Gains protocol, which has - probably due to lifestyle-incompatibilities and the overall inconvenience - already been abandoned by a lot of its initial fans. So, is alternate day fasting (ADF) the "better" intermittent fasting? Although I guess, I don't have to repeat the basics, it may be useful to initially get this straight: When I am...
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Leucine + B6: 82% More Weight + Twice As Much Body Fat Loss in First 12 of 24 Weeks on -500kcal/day Diet W/ 2.25g Leucine + 30mg Pyridoxine - To Good to Be True?

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Check your nutrition labels, I bet you get 2.25g+ leucine and 30mg of B6 from one of your supps already I am sorry to say that and actually this is usually something that goes into the bottom line, but I do have serious doubts whether the results reported in this study can be replicated in any of you. Yes, it is a human study, but (a) the subjects, 12 men and 12 women, were obese (34.76 ± 2.57) and (b) if the mere addition of 2.25 g leucine and 30 mg vitamin B6 would have such profound effects, everyone who has ever taken a commercial BCAA product would have noticed a doubling in fat loss, already, as almost all of them contain 2.25g+ of leucine and tons of pyridoxine (B6). So what are you saying here? Is this study a fraud? I have no evidence that the study was a fraud and I am certainly not implying this, but you must wonder about the magnitude of the weight loss and fat loss difference between the regular and the NuShape supplemented dieters (-500kcal from baseline energ...
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Adelfo Cerame: Intermittent Carbohydrate Modulation as a Stepping Stone Towards an Anatomy Chart Physique

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Adelfo's goal is to look like an anatomy chart. Now, I don't know about you, but I have seen dozens of anatomy charts that reveal less details of the human physiology than this side-shot which was taken only three days ago. If you read the headline of today's SuppVersity article, first, you will already know that this is not day 4 of the SuppVersity Exercise Science Week , but (finally) another of Adelfo Cerame's guestposts, here at the SuppVersity . You don't have to worry, there's going to be at least some exercise science in the SuppVersity Science Round-Up , which does (business as usual) air on 1PM (EST) live! on the Super Human Radio Network . So, if you want to be among the first to hear the latest about the ameliorative effect of no more than 3g of glutamine on skeletal muscle damage and reductions in immune functions , when you're training like a maniac ( learn more about glutamine) the superiority of protein blends with respect to net pro...
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Bodybuilding for Pekin Ducks: L-Arginine Supplementation Gets Poultry Stage Ready. More Muscle, Less Fat.

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Image 1: Not your usual exercise and nutrition science magazine: The Journal of British Poultry Science ( Taylor Francis Group . 2011) Those of you who have followed the Amino Acids for Super Human Series on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio will be familiar with the manifold benefits supplementation with the conditionally essential amino acid l-arginine has on blood pressure, glucose metabolism, endothelial health, etc. If you also listened to the last installment of the series ( Amino Acids for Super Humans III: The Sulfur Amino Acids ), you will know about my special affiliation with chicken, with chicken. Taken together, this may in parts explain, why today's SuppVersity newsitem is about a study from the Chinese Hubei Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in Wuhan ( Wu. 2011 ). In their study that has been published in the latest issue of the "famous" Journal of British Poultry Science (...
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Optimal Fat Loss - Best Time, Intensity and Equipment: Medium Intensity Aerobic Exercise in the PM at 60% For Obese and >60% For Lean To get Shredded. Vibration Training Won't Help, Though.

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Although I suppose that what I am about to tell you won't settle the everlasting debate on the effectiveness of early morning cardio training on an empty stomach (or even cardio training in general) for fat loss, you may nevertheless be interested to hear the results of a a study which has recently been published in the Journal of Human Sports & Exercise ( Mohebbi. 2011 ). Figure 1: Percentage of VO2Max for maximal (red) and minimal (green) fatty oxidation (main axis) and maximal fatty oxidation (secondary / right axis) absolute values in mg/min/fat free mass (data adapted from Mohebbi. 2011 ) Mohebbi & Aziz recruited 12 normal-weight and 10 obese men for their study and measured maximal fat oxidation (MFO) in the course of a standardized treadmill incremental running exercise , where speed and increment were increased at 3 minute intervals. MFO was determined by VO2 / VCO2 measurements during the last 2 minutes of each exercise stage. With the participants performin...
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