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A Set of Elastic Bands W/ Adequate Resistance Can Fully Replace the Gym When You're Travelling - True or False?!

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If you're doing only single-joint aka isolation exercises, you could fully replace your gym with a complete set of resistance training bands. Wouldn't it be nice if all you had to do to be able to continuously make progress in the gym while you're traveling without even having to go there... I mean, to a gym? That's obviously a rhetorical question - a question the results of a recent study from the Norges Teknisk-Nnaturvitenskapelige Universitet in Trondheim, Norway (Iversen 2017), suggests that it can be answered in the affirmative... almost, at least, if you pack one or multiple (in that case with various resistances), elastic bands, whenever you travel. Ah, and no... before you ask, the disclosure statement says the authors have "no potential conflict of interest". Read more about exercise-related studies at the SuppVersity Bands can Make Deadlifts More Effective Chains and Bands Will Boost 1RM Gains Bands Diversify and Improve 'ur Wor...
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Halloween Science - A Short List of Important and Trivial Halloween Figures, Fallacies and Horrific Facts

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You better watch your treat-intake, if you want to wear this "costume" another year ;-) I know you probably expected "healthy Halloween recipes" in this special, but you know that this is not exactly my area of expertise. Ok, ok... Honestly, Halloween per se is not exactly my specialty either. Despite the desperate efforts of the industry to import your not so holy holiday festivities to Germany, the whole idea of dressing up like monsters, vampires, zombies and skeletons to avoid being recognized when you get drunk and laid is something we do in February, in the carneval season, not the night before All Hallow's day. In view of the fact that the majority of you are from the US or the UK and thus probably just trying to squeeze their astral bodies into last year's Halloween costume, I thought it may still be worth to compile a couple of more or less random pieces of "Halloween research". So, here you go: A Playstation is as welcome as a b...
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Adelfo Cerame - Road to The Wheelchair Nationals '12: Bring Your Cucumbers to Vegas! Or, How Intermittent Fasting Can Make a Road-Trip Bodybuilding Compatible

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Image 1: When a bodybuilder heads to Vegas, its either for the Arnold or because he knows the difference between passion and obsession. I don't know what to say, but somehow I think I am kind of jealous. My friend Adelfo is heading to Vegas and I am sitting here in the rainy cold, reading about how he is preparing not for the contest, but for three wild days in Las Vegas! I mean if it were for the Arnold's... but no, it is just for fun! And you know what? That is exactly what it takes to be successful - making bodybuilding your passion, not your obsession. How that works? Well, I guess I will hand over to Adelfo give you his rundown of the fundamentals, like choosing hard liquor over beer and making sure to be in a drunken stupor not before the bar, but before your feeding window closes ;-) Viva Las Vegas! There is no life beyond, but a life with bodybuilding! Las Vegas! That's the place to be... well, it will be for me over the next three days - belated birthday ...
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Adelfo Cerame - Road to The Wheelchair Nationals '12: My Five Simple Tricks for Guilt Free Thanksgiving Celebrations. Plus: Four Dietary Supplements You Should not Miss!

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Image 1: Adelfo on Wednesday before the feast began. We will see how he looks next week ;-) I guess, this blogpost should actually begin with the words " Happy Thanksgiving " in big, bold letters, but for us Europeans - and me as a German, in particular - today is a regular working day. Nevertheless, it is a day to celebrate, because THIS is actually post #600 here at the SuppVersity and I am in fact grateful (and thusly giving thanks) that you, my dear students, readers, followers or however else you want to refer to yourselves, are still interested in my perspective(s) on what is going on in the world of fitness, bodybuilding, sports and exercise science. That being said, I do still hope that all of you (who actually have a holiday) are having a good time with your friends and family , just like my friend Adelfo, who has sent me his weekly contest-prep update and his best wishes to all of you last night, already .... Turkey, pie, ... pie, turkey, ... turkey ... an...
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