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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 ...
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Pre-Hypertension Ain't Benign: Up to 80% Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity W/ "High Normal" Blood Pressure and Less! Plus: Foods & Supps to Reduce Your BP

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"High normal" is misleading - there is no such thing as a "high normal" BP "Ah, that's not so bad!" If that's what your doctor said, when he last measured your blood pressure and said "129/84" when he looked at the display of the Sphygmomanometer he must have been living beneath a rock for the past decades. If that sounds familiar, it may be useful to show him a recent meta-analysis of pertinent papers from the early 2000s - a metapa-analysis like the one Yuli Huang and her colleagues from the Department of Cardiology at the Nanfang Hospital at the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, published in BMC Medicine a couple of days ago (Huang. 2014). "Pre-hyper-tensive? Pah that's not me!" If you just thought that, I'd hope that you are right, but honestly... in view of the fact that 3 out of 10 US citizens have a blood pressure in the 129-139 / 84-95 mmHg and against the background that the latter h...
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Baking Soda For Stressed White Blood Cells: 0.3g/kg NaCO3 90min Before an Anaerobic Workout Protect Your Immune Cells From "Stress" and Oxidative Damage

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Image 1: Pure baking soda is not (yet?) a staple of the supplemental arsenal of many athletes. The scientific evidence with regard to its immediate ergogenic effects is ambigious and the mere presence of the word "sodium" in "sodium bicarbonate" scares the hack out of those athletes (bodybuilders and figure competitors) who may benefit most from a few grams of this potent alkalizer. "Sodium"! This word alone is usually enough to scare bodybuilders and fitness athletes to death. "Sodium!? Isn't that the stuff that makes me look bloated?" The answer is easy: No! While sodium will help you retain enough water in your body to perform in the gym , the amount of sodium you ingest usually has little impact on the amount of water you will be holding, only when you start modulating your sodium intake, your body will react with changes in the renin-andiotensin-aldosterone system and you will be fluctuating "nicely" back and forth from su...
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Olive Leave Extract Equally Effective at Lowering Blood Pressure as ACE Inhibitor Captopril

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For those who read yesterday's news on the negative effect of caffeine on exercise induced blood pressure response, it might be of interest that no more than 500mg of Olive ( Olea europaea ) leaf extract may well counteract the negative effect of caffeine intake and help with triglyceride levels, as well. In a double-blind, randomized, parallel and active-controlled clinical study ( Susalit. 2010 ) an international team of scientists found that after a run-in period of 4 weeks continued subsequently by an 8-week treatment period supplementation with Olive ( Olea europaea L. ) leaf extract (EFLA®943) at 500 mg twice daily was equally effective in reducing blood pressure as the ACE inhibitor Captopril , which was given at the dosage regimen of 12.5 mg twice daily for the first two weeks and (if necessary) at 25 mg twice daily for the rest of the treatment period: After 8 weeks of treatment, both groups experienced a significant reduction of systolic blood pressure (SBP) as well ...
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Can Vinegar Increase Resting Energy Expenditure? In Mice it can!

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Apple cider vinegar is sometimes recommended to improve digestion, all claims that it also helps with losing body weight have yet hitherto remained unsustainable. Now, the results of a recent study by Japanese scientists ( Hattori. 2010 ) suggests, that acetic acid, a main component of all types of vinegar increases resting energy expenditure in acetic acid treated mice: In this study, we investigated to determine whether a single oral administration of AcOH would increase EE in C57BL/6J mice treated with 1.5% AcOH. The AcOH treatment group had significantly higher oxygen consumption (VO 2 ), EE, and fat oxidation (FAT) than the water treatment group. Interestingly, this is only a follow-up study to previous investigations, in the course of which the same group of scientists found that acetic acid positively affects hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and hypertension, and that AcOH administration suppresses body fat mass and up-regulates the genes involved in fatty acid oxidation. So...
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