SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

The shorter the distances between the cones on a shuttle run the greater the energy expenditure per meter you are sprinting - in fact the amount of energy you will burn on a 10m run is 3.5x higher than that your body will expend on the corresponding 10m of a 20m sprint - and you bet that this is not a "shuttle run"-specific effect. I have already hinted at the unfortunate circumstance that trainees and even scientists still adhere to the (obviously) lousy hypothesis that it were possible to calculate the energy expenditure of their participants by simply multiplying the force they apply to move a given object (or themselves) from point A to point B. It is true that the result, W (as in W-orlkload) = F (as in F-orce) x d (as in d-istance) will "look" like it should tell you the amount of Energy that's been necessary to move the object from A to B, but that would require that (a) all the bio-chemical energy your body produces would be converted to mechanical...

If it does not make you as swole as the colorful ad promised it must not be working, right? The jury was not even any longer "out there" for glycerol, but a recent study makes you rethink, whether you just have to look in the right place to see the benefits. Another of the "odd" Thursdays without an update from "Your's Truly" Adelfo Cerame . And since there is holiday today, over here, I even thought there would not be a SuppVersity Science Round Up today. But hey, you are lucky you (and Carl) got to work, so you can tune in live at 1PM EST, or even better, start listening live at 1PM in order not to miss the Strength and Hypertrophy Round Table ! As far the  topics for today's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round Up are concerned, you are actually only a couple of lines away from reading about one that's on the list:  The effects of glycerol on exercise performance. I don't have to tell you though that this is not everyth...