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Real Growth Hormone for Athletes - Lean Mass ↗, Fat Mass ↓, Water ↑, but Limited Evidence of Performance Increases

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Physique athletes > sprinters > endurance athletes - That's probably the ranking of those athletes who benefit most from GH (ab-)use. Why? Well, its effects on body composition are attractive for BBs & Co, its potential ability to boost anaerobic performance for sprinters and its lack of effect on VO2max limits their use in marathoners to accelerated recovery. If you believe in the claims of the supplement industry, you probably expect extreme gains, significant fat loss and huge performance increases from a boost in natural GH production. Well, guess what: that's another of the lies the industry is based on. There's no "natural GH booster" that will increase the total amount of growth hormone your body produces on a daily basis (early studies also suggest that the effect wears off over time, even if you use the products only every 10 days | Isidori 1981). As reported previously in articles about combinations of various amino acids, some may - if t...
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Eccentric Training Keeps You Gainin' and T & GH Up When, in Weeks 5-10, Traditional Training Stops Yielding Results

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Extra gains, testosterone, and GH in one scientific paper?  That will catch every gymrats interest, right? I know, the name SuppVersity  implies that gains were all, or at least to a significant degree about supplements. In fact, though, they are about busting your ass out in the gym and eating like a freak. And with respect to the former, a new study from the  University of Jyväskylä  in Finland suggests that there is a deeper truth to the former part of this often-heard claim: busting your a** in form of eccentric training, i.e. using the maximal weight you can lift on the concentric and a supra-maximal weight on the eccentric phase of a more will  indeed produce significantly greater increases in maximal voluntary contraction torque (MVC) and (almost) significant increases in muscle gains. Are you trying to optimize your training for gains ? Find inspiration in these articles: What's the Latest on Failure? 36% Extra-Gains W/ Rest-Pause Pyramid-...
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Hormonal Response to Exercise, Revisited: A Consequence, not a Determinant of Your Mood, Effort & Performance

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Studies in men suggest no effect of the hormonal response on training outcome - What about women? A news study provides insights that may be relevant for both female and male gymrats. It has been a few years that I last wrote about the "hormonal ghost". Back in the day, Stuart M. Phillips published an excellent paper that debunked the myth of a mechanistic link of post-exercise increases in testosterone, growth hormone, IGF-1 and co., on the one hand, and exercise-induced strength and size gains, on the other hand. And for those for whom Phillip's review of the literature was not convincing enough, Daniel WD West's 2012, which showed none of the expected associations between exercise-induced hormone profiles (first and foremost higher post-workout testosterone levels) and the rate or significance of muscle strength and size gains in a large cohort of young men after weight training, should have been evidence enough to stop believing in "hormonal ghosts",...
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Training in Hypoxia Makes You Stronger, Bigger & Leaner | Short Rest Doubles Energy Expenditure During & After Ex. | C+E + NSAID + Whey + Cold Water for "Instant" Recovery

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The less you rest, the more you burn. If you're looking for the latest exercise science news, look no further! In today's installment of the short news you will learn about the effects of different rest intervals on the acute metabolic effects of "battling the rope", the effects of 5-week resistance training in hypoxia on the hormonal response to exercise and muscle strength and exercise metabolism. Sounds great? Well, in that case let's get to the study designs and results without further ado. Squatting will always remain the most versatile muscle builder & fat shredder Optimizing Rest for Size and Strength Gains When Rodents Squat, We Can Learn A Lot! Farmer's Walk or Squat? Is Strong- men T. For You? Full ROM ➯ Full Gains - Form Counts! Cut the Weight, Add the Vibe - Vibration Plates Up Your Squat by 25% With Sodium Bicarbonate The Effects of Rest Interval Length on Acute Battling Rope Exercise Metabolism (Ratamess. 2015)...
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HMB Powers Abdominal Fat Loss Prowess of Resistance Training - Is This a Result of HMB Increased GH Increases?

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Will HMB help you to finally see your abs? Only recently a study from the Jeremy Townsend et al. reported that the provision of β-Hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate free acid will increase the growth hormone response to resistance training (Townsend. 2015). Now, we all know that the growth hormone response is not, as some people may still believe, a measure of the total amount of muscle the subjects will gain. Instead of discussing the results of this acute-phase study, I will thus deal with the results of a recent study from the  Institute of Exercise Physiology and Wellness at the  University of Central Florida (Stout. 2015), instead. Don't forget to building muscle & strength . Fat loss alone is not enough to look good naked Tri- or Multi-Set Training for Body Recomp.? Alternating Squat & Blood Pressure - Productive? Pre-Exhaustion Exhausts Your Growth Potential Exercise not Intensity Variation for Max. Gains Battle the Rope to Get Ripped & Stro...
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