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Blood Flow Restriction Training 2020: What's New on Age, Sex, and Contralateral Gains | Plus: Limiting Discomfort!?

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It may sound awesome but eventually training only one arm is no viable long-term strategy. Having learned about the ability of BFR to increase/facilitate contralateral gains in today's SuppVersity  article, you could yet well use it when you're injured and unable to train one of your limbs (legs/quads should work, too).  In today's third installment of the 2020 research updates , I want to take a look at all that's new and interesting in the realms of blood flow restriction aka # BFR . How effective is it? Who benefits? Who benefits the most? Will it speed up or slow down recovery? And why will it help you make gains even on untrained limbs?  Sounds interesting? Well, here you go: My overview of selected new studies investigating the effects of blood flow restriction from early 2020 will answer these and (hopefully) any related questions you may have. "Blood Flow Restriction" aka # BFR is becoming more and more popular - rightly so? BFR, Cortisol ...
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5% Faster W/ 135ml of Red Blood Cells - Transfusion Works Within 2h! Plus: ~1.5g/kg = Optimal PWO Protein Intake for Protein Synthesis in Females - SV November Short News

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Welcome to today's installment of " on short notice " You may remember from the SuppVersity news on Facebook that the use of cobalt supplements can indeed (as it has long been touted and doubted) have similar effects as EPO ( Hoffmeister 2018 ). Yet while the study by Hoffmeister et al. showed that the VO2max correlated significantly with the 2% increase in Hemoglobin in response to the ingestion of  5 mg of ionized Co2+ for 3 weeks, an acute performance-enhancing effect was neither tested nor observed in the German study. That's in contrast to autologous (=your own) blood infusions. A simple injection of only ~135 ml of red blood cells that were previously isolated from 450 ml of your own blood 2h before training or competition will improve your endurance performance by 5%, ... according to the latest study from the  University of Copenhagen  ( Bejder 2018 ). High-protein diets are much safer than some 'experts' say, but there are things to cons...
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Acute Effects of Stretching Before Workouts and Long-Term Effects of Separate Stretches | Plus: Stretch→Hypertrophy?

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I am not aware of studies on intra-workout stretching as joggers do it sometimes. I've recently overheard a discussion about stretching between the two other members of my gym. Both of them were highlighting out how detrimental stretching before workouts was and that, instead, you should do your stretches at the end of your workouts because, after all, you don't wont to lose your flexibility. Oh my, if things only were that simple... Even if we just refer to the few studies on stretching that were published in 2018, it becomes evident that one-size-fits-it-all solutions like "stretch after, never before workouts" are problematic and may even do more harm than good. What will affect your energy expenditure  and how much energy do you expend? Squat is the King of energy exp. (35kcal/min) 3 Revelations About EE While Lifting How Dieting Reduces Your EE via the CNS Reduced EE in Contest Prep of Figure Comp. Synergistic or Antagonistic for Max EE ...
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Beyond Protein Synthesis - Here's What's Really Driving 'ur Gainz | Plus: Exercise & NAFLD, Telomere Length + More

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Unless it's done in excess, exercise is a universal health booster ... and it can make you look great naked ;-) In the latest edition of the short news, I am going to address recently published papers from Exercise and Sport Science Reviews  that shed a new light on the way(s) your muscle grow and suggest that exercise is able to cure NAFLD at least partly due to its ability to activate hepatic autophagy. In conjunction with three studies from the July issue of  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise  that dealt with the link between leisure-time physical activity and telomere length, the underlying reason grandpa (and -ma) are at a very high risk of fall (hint: it's a neuromuscular weakness) and the validity of "use it or lose it" when it comes to the cartilage tissue in your knee. Read about exercise- and nutrition-related studies in the SuppVersity Short News Alcohol, Microbes & International Chest Day Aug '15 Ex.Res. Upd.: Nitrate, G...
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6x1 Min HIIT Before Lifting Shed Extra Fat, Don't Impair 'ur Gainz | Daily AM/PM Training = ZERO Gainz | Alcohol W/Out Acute Effect on Workout Recovery of Trained Women

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While alcohol doesn't impair the regeneration and doing HIIT before weights leaves women's gains unchanged while potentially boosting their fat loss, training twice a day, every day appears to be a good idea only for those who are afraid that they could become "too muscular". Not every study is worth being discussed at length in an article of its own. This is why I've come up with the "Short News" or "Research Updates" - articles like the one at hand in which I address 3-5 studies very briefly. Mostly to give you an idea of the results and make sure that you can say "Yo, I've read about that study, bro" at the gym, when someone tells you: "You know, man, there's that new study showing that alcohol does not exacerbate the inflammatory response to exercise, bro!" Ok, that was a joke. I hope your real reason to read the following elaborations is to make sure that the way you train is in line with what works accord...
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