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From 16% to 8% Body Fat in 10 Weeks: Crossfit Workout Gets The Leanest Shredded - But Only the Fittest Survive

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Crossfit doesn't fit well with everyone. In  fact you have to be pretty fit already if you intend to benefit - specifically if you don't have someone who tailors the workouts to your specific needs. If you don't or are still miles apart from being fit, don't be bamboozled by the results of people who have been training for years. This certainly sounds a little sadistic, but I hope you've been missing the Science Round-Up last Thursday. If that's the case, you will be happy to hear that Carl and I are back on track, and ready to talk about topics ranging from magnesium supplementation over the potentially fatal combination of NSAIDs and exercise and what's that got to do with gut health / integrity, how light therapy won't make you lighter, but help you cut body fat , how intense workouts compromise your sleep , and how intense sweeteners make you fat - at least if you add them on top of a Western diet. If we will have time, we will also take a loo...
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You Cannot Sleep Before an Important Event? Take High Dose Creatine or Low Dose Caffeine to Battle Fatigue Induced Decrement in Skill Performance and Increase Testosterone.

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Image 1: LG's Anadraulic State is only one example for some of the 2nd generation pre-workout products with deliberately lowered amounts of caffeine and increased amounts of creatine & other ergogenics in it. You know it, you love it: Creatine Monohydrate - the godfather of dietary supplements ; but did you know that Creatine supplementation at 50 or 100mg/kg body weight is as effective as low (1mg/kg) or high dose (5mg/kg) caffeine in preventing the decrease in athletic skill performance after sleep deprivation? On ten separate occasions, Cook et al. ( Cook. 2011 ) had ten elite rugby players complete 10 trials on a simple rugby passing skill test (20 repeats per trial). On five of these occasions the players had slept their usual 7-9h on the other five occasions, however, they only slept 3-5h before reporting to the laboratory. While the 2-6h of sleep they were lacking "resulted in a significant fall in skill performance accuracy on both the dominant and non-d...
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