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If the Androgen Receptor Response to Training Determines Your Gainz, the Question is: How Can You Optimize 'ur AR Density? Training-, Diet-, and Supplement-Effects Reviewed

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Your androgen receptor status may not just determine how much muscle you gain - the data from Morton et al. seems to suggest that it even determines if you make visible muscle gains, at all. Unless you've missed following the SuppVersity on Facebook , yet, you will remember my recent, highly popular post which previewed the results of a recent study from the  McMaster University  in Ontario. Meanwhile, the full-text of the study has been published and it highlights what I pointed out before: It supports previous research, which showed that neither the acute increase in intramuscular free testosterone, nor dihydrotestosterone, or 5α-reductase predicts the muscle gains of resistance-trained men. More importantly, however, it has the potential to shift the interest in post-exercise changes of testosterone, IGF1, GH & co. to the androgen receptors or rather how they (and maybe other receptors, like the IGF-1 receptor) respond to resistant exercise. Read more abou...

Research Update: Do NSAIDs Augment or Impair Exercise Induced Hypertrophy & Strength Gains in Young and Old?

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Are you young and healthy? Then, high-dose NSAIDs may ruin your quad-gainz. If you browse the SuppVersity   Archive , you will find that NSAIDs, i.e. Non-Steroid(=not based on cortisone)-Anti-inflammatory-Drugs like aspirin, celecoxib, diclofenac, ibuprofen, or indomethacin, are not as bad as the bros in the locker-room may have told you. In fact, a relatively recent study by Mackey et al. (2016) observed  beneficial effects on muscle repair in young men . And an even more positive image of NSAIDs emerges if you read Trappe et al.'s 2016 study in which they observed significant increases in muscle gains in older trainees. Read about exercise- and nutrition-related studies in the SuppVersity Short News Alcohol, Microbes & International Chest Day Will Cooking Ruin the N3s in Your Fish? Learn What's Really Driving Your Gains HbA1c, Bone Health, BFR & More | Jan'17 TeaCrine®, ALA, Tribulus, Cordy-ceps, Sesamin... The Latest Fiber & ...

Rest-Pause Yields 36% Greater Gains in Thigh Size in 6-Week Study With Trained Subjects - Awesome!? Well...

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Yet another study, where reading only the abstract - let alone the conclusion - may be utterly misleading. Always ask for effect sizes and absolute changes. Not even hot off the press, but still weeks before its official publication is the latest paper by Jonato Prestes and colleagues from the  Catholic University of Brasilia , the  Rocky Mountain College in the USA and the  Faculty Estacio of Vitoria  in Brazil (Prestes 2017). The corresponding study was designed to eventually fill the research gap that exists with respect to the longitudinal effects of the rest-pause method on muscle strength and hypertrophy; or, as the authors write, "the purpose of the present study was to compare the longitudinal effects of six weeks of rest-pause versus a traditional multiple-set RT on muscle strength, hypertrophy, localized muscular endurance, and body composition in trained subjects" (Prestes 2017). Are you trying to optimize your training for gains ? Find in...

When "No Load Training" Builds Muscle and Classic Biceps Curls Diminish Your Triceps Size, Science Must be Involved

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Do not misunderstand the results of the study at hand. It does not "proof that you don't have to use weights to make size gains" and it does not even suggest that "training without load works as effectively as training with loads for every muscle". I suspect you will remember that I have previously written about the potential muscle building effects of posing. Now, the isometric contractions you perform when you "pose", are not exactly the same, but at least related to the "maximal contractions through a full range of motion" Counts et al. investigated in their latest study. Accordingly, it doesn't seem to be totally far-fetched to assume that (1) increases in muscle size would be similar with this type of NO LOAD compared to HIGH LOAD training and that (2) HIGH LOAD training would still result in a greater strength increases compared to NO LOAD due to the principle of specificity. To elucidate whether these hypotheses are accurate,...
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