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On Short Notice: Insanity vs. TurboFire - What's the Best HIIT Regimen? Plus: USA vs. China, Chews vs. Raisins, Epi-Sesamine vs. Body Fat, Exercise vs. Neurotoxins & More

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Figure 1: The latest medal prognosis for Olympia 2012 by researchers at the Department of Economics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany (Otten. 2012) - I must admit I am curious how accurate this prognosis will be... what's your take? The US or China? Who's going to take the lead? The Queen has officially opened the Olympic Games 2012 and the games have their first doping case - those of you who followed yesterday's advice to subscribe to the SuppVersity Facebook page are already in the know... anyways, this is not the place for one of my hypocrisy rants, but for the weekly installment of " On Short Notice ". Still, in the "honor" of the Olympics *rofl* and the spirit of the SuppVersity - which is, as you all know, the place you will get the news first ! - I have compiled the TOP15 from the latest medal prognosis by Sebastian Otten, the chair of the Department of Economics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany, for you as an appeti...
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Eat Right to Burn Fat: Low Carb Meal Before Workout Shifts Substrate Utilization During Exercise More Towards Fatty Acids

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In view of everything, you as regular visitor of the SuppVersity have learned about nutrition and exercise science, you probably would not need the results of the following study, to know better than to consume a sugary pre-workout drink, if your main goal is to lose fat and get ripped. Just in case, however, your friends or relatives belong to the group of unconvertible carbohydrate addicts, who still (want to?) believe that "fat burns in the fire of carbohydrates", printing this blogpost and sticking it to their gymbag may in fact turn out to be a "fat burning" endeavor... Figure 1: Respiratory Exchange Ratio (RER) following the consumption of a  low carb (LC) or low fat (LF) mealt; remember: a lower RER is associated with a higher percantages of fatty acid oxidation / lower carbohydrate oxidation (data adapted from Gregory. 2011 ) Sara Gregory and her colleagues from the Department of Exercise Science and Sports Studies at Springfield College recently publ...
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Want to Burn More Fat During Your Cardio Training? Eat Low Carb Before Workout!

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Modulation of substrate utilization is the key to effective weight loss. For years we have been told that "training in the zone" (referring to a specific heart rate) would do the trick - recent research does yet suggest otherwise: High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) has been shown to be at least as effective in burning off unwanted body fat, as the longstanding "gold standard", Low Intensity Steady State (LISS) in the "fat burning zone". Researchers from the Department of Exercise Science and Sports Studies at Springfield College, Springfield, MA, USA, have now found that apart from the type of exercise you chose to perform, the nutrition, especially in the hours before working out, determines whether you will predominantly burn fat or carbs to sustain the workout. In their study ( Gregory. 2011 ), Gregory et al. compared the metabolic responses of a group of 8 "active, pre-menopausal" women to a 30 minute exercise regimen performed afte...
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