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Calories Count, but Steps Count Too! From 10 to 5k Steps/d W/Out Effect on Body Composition if Energy Intake is Mildly Reduced | Unlike Fatness, the Fitness Worsens, Though

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Trust me, once you try to match your intake to your alleged expenditure via apps and trackers you WILL fail if you're also working out regularly - so don't extrapolate the results to: "Oh, I'll just have that Pizza + IceCream, I burned 1,000kcal extra in the gym, I can afford it" - you can't  out-exercise overeating! Those of you who're friends with me on Facebook may have seen the link I posted to an article about an epic total   bed rest study (yes, including bedpans, etc.) that's currently recruiting volunteers. If it was not for the good of humanity - Mission to Mars etc. you know - I guess, studies in which you have to stay lying at a decline angle in bed for a whopping two months wouldn't even pass the scrutiny of the ethics committee of (in this case) NASA... but I am digressing and things were significantly less bad and much more realistic in a recent study from the  University of Missouri . With this new study, Winn et al. (2019) wa...

Nitrate for Muscle+Brain Performance | Walking for Glucose Management | Full Glycogen Stores W/Out Excessive Water Retention | 5x10, 10x10, Cardio How mTOR and Co Respond

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If Yap et al. were right and only continuous and not accumulative physical activity mattered, activity trackers like the this would be useless. No one needs a device to remind him of the 30 min of brisk walking he did / skipped today. In today's installment of SuppVersity " On Short Notice ", we're going to take a closer look at a selection of recent papers from the European Journal of Applied Physiology . To be more specific, I will discuss the physiological and psychological effects of dietary nitrate and their potential significance for team athletes. From there we're taking a detour to glycogen resynthesis and its interaction with hydration - a topic that may be highly relevant for bodybuilders and at least interesting for everyone else. Before we then take a departing look at the differential effects of 5x10, 10x10 and endurance exercise on markers of protein synthesis and glucose uptake, we'll spend briefly review the claim that the cumulative physic...
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