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Cannabis, Basketball Shoes With Cushioning and the Brain-Building Effect(s) of Your Beloved Hypertrophy Workouts

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Cannabis is bad for athletes,... well, unless they're asthmatics; and in that case they'd better use beta-agonists, which have welcome previously discussed ergogenic "side effects". It's April and time for another installment of the SuppVersity Short News about sports medicine and related topics. In articles like the one at hand, I discuss a selection of recent studies - usually from a single journal like, in this case, the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport  and often, as in this case, based on papers that have been accepted for publication, already but haven't been published, yet. In today's installment we'll deal with cannabis, shoe cushings and the brain building (BDNF boosting effects) of hypertrophy-oriented resistance training... and, not to forget, the fallacy of taking into account only exercise-induced stressors, when you periodize your training. Read about more or less exercise-related studies at the SuppVersity Alcohol, Mi...
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Barefoot or Shod? A Question of Faith & Science: Science Says It's Safe and Economic, Practitioners Say "It's Making Me Faster & Helped Me Get Rid of Nagging Injuries!"

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Minimal or no shoes, trendy, healthy and performance enhancing? Honestly, I am not even sure if it's a question of faith and science. I think for many people out there it is more a question of faith or science. Now some of you may think: "Well, of course, science says: It's bullocks. Faith says it's 'right' to run barefoot." Right? Wrong!  No, I don't want to tell you what to do. I want to tell you about the scientific evidence in favor of barefoot running. Evidence as it is presented in "Barefoot running survey: Evidence from the field" a recent paper by David Hryvnial, Jay Dicharry and Robert Wilder that's about to be published in one of the upcoming issues of the Journal of Sport and Health Science that's based on data from more than 500 runners (Hryvniak. 2014). Not everyone will do his HIIT sprints barefoot, I think, but maybe minimally shod? Never Train To Burn Calories! Tabata = 14.2kcal /min ≠ Fat Loss 30s I...
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Overtraining Research: New Insights into Athlete Triad. Plus: Depression, Palpitations, Urination, Injuries and Weight & Performance Plateaus, the Many Faces of Overtraining

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Chronic overtraining is one of the main contributers to the occurrence of often likewise chronic injuries, which persist even, when you finally realized that your own ambition is about to ruin your health. It's the last day of the SuppVersity Exercise Science Week with a topic of which you actually have read as an aside, or "read up on" note in the previous installments, already: Overtraining and the infamous athlete's triad (read the whole SuppVersity Special here ). Since I know that especially the male SuppVersity readers tend to believe they were bullet, or rather overtraining proof by nature, I decided to add a more general follow up to the results of a tightly controlled rodent experiment from the Graduate School of Sport Sciences at the Waseda University and the National Institute of Health and Nutrition University in Japan (Yanaka. 2012), which provide insights into the etiology of the (female) athlete triad phenomenon. A follow up with a potpourrie of...
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Adelfo Cerame - Road to Wheelchair Nationals '12: Getting Ripped For Christmas! Plus, Taking a Week Off Takes Some Courage, But Believe Me - It Will Pay Off!

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Image 1: Adelfo at the Buckeye Classics , last year. Actually, I wanted to start this installment of Adelfo's weekly contest-prep blog along the lines of "another Thursday, another ...", ... well, I guess that won't work out, because exactly those lines were the first words in the email with the weekly write-up Adelfo just sent me. So, I guess, I will just take the chance to sneak in a last-minute tip for a gift . Assuming that you have a friend or family member who really wants to make a change to the way he looks, feels and performs in the coming year, I think Adelfo is still taking new clients ... but before he gets mad at me again, because I am pimping his services way too much for his liking, I better shut up now and let Adelfo tell you how he has been preparing for Christmas and his 12-weeks out mark on Christmas Day ;-) Another Thursday, another blog…   Damn! Aren’t you guys and, of course, girls ;-) getting tired of reading these Thursday write-ups? ...
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