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Update on GAINZ: More Muscle & Strength W/ Exercises You Like | Deadlifting Unshoed NO Power Booster | 50% Sugar NOT Anti-Anabolic | Cryotherapy NO Recovery Boost

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No, bro - Losing your shoes won't allow you to magically lift thrice your BW when your current 1-RM is only twice your BW. Who would have thought that? If trained subjects are allowed to chose their 'favorite' exercises (or those they deem most productive) they gain 63% more lean mass in a realistic 9-week study (difference short of sign., though). I guess compared to this result from a recent study from the  University of Tampa , the realizations that deadlifting unshoed doesn't seem to provide a systematic benefit, that sugar does not - if protein intake is adequate - negatively affect anabolism, and that local cryotherapy doesn't just threaten the adaptational processes that occur after your workouts are rather expected results... results that were IMHO still worth summarizing in this October 2017 Suppversity "Update on GAINZ" ;-) If you want to update YOUR gains, try creatine -monohydrate - safe and proven! Creatine Doubles 'Ur GainZ! ...
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Recomp: Building Muscle + Losing Fat Works W/ Weights, but Won't Boost 'Ur Resting Metabolic Rate Along the Way

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Sane caloric deficits (maybe 15-20% and thus more than in the study at hand) + strength training may facilitate recomp = body fat loss + muscle gain/maintenance. There are even equations which indicate that any increase in lean mass should contribute to measurable increases in your resting metabolic rate aka your "RMR". Being able to build muscle and thus increase your metabolic rate is one of the reasons why everyone (including myself) recommends to hit the weights (not just the cardio apparel) whenever you're trying to shed superfluous body fat. Now, a recent study from the University of Ottawa  clearly suggests that, "despite an increase in fat-free mass [...] 6 months of aerobic, resistance, or combined training [adherence was controlled for] did not increase RMR compared [...] in adolescents with obesity" (Alberga. 2017). The effect on RMR may be small, but you must  build muscle if your goal's to get jacked Tri- or Multi-Set Training for Bo...
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Ramadan Fasting Studies Showing Fat, but no Muscle Loss Support Benefits of 'Lean Gains'-Style Intermittent Fasting

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Remember, Ramadan fasting is not about eating healthy or dieting, after sundown most Muslims consume at least as much energy as on a non-fasting day. While scientists usually refer to alternate-day fasting as "intermittent fasting", the average fitness enthusiasts will think of Martin Berkhan's "lean gains" protocol, when he or she hears the words "intermittent fasting" - a protocol that involves fasting for minimally 16h and eating for maximally 8h and is thus somewhat similar to the "eat only after sundown" protocol Muslims follow during Ramadan. Against that background, it makes sense to assume that the two dozen of peer-reviewed Ramadan fasting studies from the Middle East and the Muslim part of Asia provide an (albeit often uncontrolled) model for intermittent fasting. Do you have to worry about fasting when your're dieting!? Breakfast and Circadian Rhythm Does Meal Timing Matter? Habits Determine Effects of Fastin...
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High Dose NSAID Boosts Muscle Gains in Elderly Men - 11% Increase in Type II Fiber Size, Type I Grew Only 'on' Tylenol

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Are NSAIDs over-the-counter anabolics from the pharmacy next door? Even though this is not the first SuppVersity  article about the effects of NSAIDs or COX-inhibitors like Aspirin, Tylenol, Pain-Eze and co., I would like to highlight one again  that the existing evidence suggests differential effects in young(er) vs. old(er) individuals, with the former seeing no or detrimental and the latter no or beneficial effects when using NSAIDs during resistance training regimen. It is thus neither guaranteed, nor likely that a young man or woman would see the same 28% extra-increase in type I fiber and 11% extra-increase in type II fiber diameter, Trappe et al. describe in their soon-to-be-published paper in the journal of the Gerontological Society of America  (Trappe. 2016). The link to hormesis research is far from being straight-forward Is Vitamin E Good for the Sedentary Slob, Only? Even Ice-Baths Impair the Adapt. Process Vit C+E Impair Muscle Gain...
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Intermittent Fasting Works, But is It Better Than "Regular" Dieting? What Do the Latest Reviews / Meta-Analyses Say?

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Don't eat unless this brunette,... ah, I mean her clock tells you to eat. That's intermittent fasting (IF) - well, at least one out of at least three versions of eating by the clock people call "intermittent fasting". Needless to say that this doesn't make it much easier to decide if IF works or not. It has been some time since I wrote about "Intermittent Fasting" ("lean gains"-style, i.e. eat in a 6h-8h window everyday), "Fasting" (don't eat at all) and "Alternate Day Fasting" (eat very little / usually ~800kcal one day / and normal the next one, repeat). Against that background it is worth devoting a whole SuppVersity Research Update to the latest studies and reviews of IF and ADF. In the corresponding papers, Tinsley and La Bounty review the "effects of intermittent fasting on body composition and clinical health markers in humans", Varady et al. discuss "the determinants of weight loss success wi...
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