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Dumbbell Chest & Shoulder Training Shoot Out: New EMG Data from Experienced and Novice Female Lifters

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Does a woman's pectoralis react the same way to dumbbell bench, incline and shoulder presses as the one of their male training partners? Does it make a difference whether you are a novice or an advanced trainee? What about light vs. heavy weights - any effect on the activation patterns of pectoralis, delts, trapezius & co? Learn the answers to these & other questions in today's SuppVersity article (photo bodybuilding.com) The SuppVersity EMG Series is still one of the the most popular article series, here at the SuppVersity and that despite the fact that I guess most of you will already know the results by heart. Therefore I am happy to present you some additional data from a recently conducted study from the Biodynamics and Human Performance Center at the Armstrong Atlantic State University in Abercorn. The study that was published in the Journal of Sports Medicine a couple of days ago is - according to the authors - the first to investigate, whether the previ...
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Cannabis for Diabetes Prevention? A 1 + 5-Point Information Leaflet to Read Before Smoking Your First Medicinal Reefer

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Weedy discoveries: Diabetes protection or just another addiction? "Good news everyone! Smoking weed is going to solve all your problems." I guess, most of you will already know that, after all the results from a recent study that comes out of the leave no question: Cannabis is the answer to why we get fat... or rather, not smoking it is the reason we are becoming fatter and fatter, year after year. How the scientists know? Well, they have the cunning of the average epidemiologist who knows very well how to get publicity. And as you can see, they really know what they are doing - why else would something that's about as diametrically opposed to physical culture like smoking weed make the headlines on the SuppVersity ? Let the statistical shenanigan begin! When you are pro Marijuana you got the support of the majority of the US citizens. Not only has smoking weed been legalized (for medical purposes, of course ;-) in 19 states and the District of Columbia followin...
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Peri-Workout Hydro-Whey Supplementation: Tried & Proven Muscle Builder Will Also Increase Tendon Size & Strength

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Squats are by no means the only exercise that requires strong muscles and tendons. In a way you could argue that today's SuppVersity article serves two purposes. Firstly, it provides direct evidence for my outrageous claim that the VPX Shotgun + Synthesize study from Saturday's installment of On Short Notice has little to no practical value, because the use of 2x17g of maltodextrin as a control has little to do with the real-world supplementation regimen the potential consumers of respective products are ingesting. I mean, you can safely assume that people who are willing to spend the money on expensive peri-workout kitchen sink supplements will - just like most of you - be ingesting a whey (or other fast acting) protein source after their workouts, anyways. It goes without saying that it would not have needed a new study to prove this point, so that informing you about another observation Farup et al. made in their most recent study is not just the second, but actually...
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A Bomb Calorimeter You Are Not! And That's Why Even the "Adjusted" Energy Values on Food Labels Are 5% Off

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How productive are you? A couple of you will probably remember the SuppVersity news from ~1 year ago in which I discussed the revelation that nuts (pistachios and almonds) effectively deliver much less energy (-25%) than the "label" or databases on the Internet will tell you. In other words, while these healthy snacks are still extremely calorie dense, our bodies are not exactly as well equipped as a bomb calorimeter to use that energy.... "bomb calorimeter"? That reminds me of a study I read about a week ago and remembered, today, when I was thinking about writing an article on a topic that is not the 10214124x study on how aerobic exercise is good for elderly obese diabetics, or how extract XYZ from whatever TCM medicine ameliorates the weight gain in obese rodents. The study, I was thinking of was conducted at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics , VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam (Wierdsma. 2013) and with it investigating the practically h...
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11% Increase in Type I Fiber Cross Sectional Area During 12 Weeks of KHCO3 Supplementation: Are Alkali Supplements Fiber-Type Specific Anabolics W/ Add. Metabolic Benefits?

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Muscle toning with bicarbonate? Without weight gain? For some women probably a dream come true ;-) I guess, you will be hard-pressed to find another website with a similar amount of information the effects of alakali (mostly sodium bicarbonate ) supplementation on exercise performance and metabolism as the SuppVersity . Irrespective of the previous posts on "baking soda" or the recent elaborations on the importance of a well-controlled acid base ratio ( learn more ), I am quite sure that the results of a recently published study from the Tufts Medical Center and the Bone Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University will come as a surprise even for the most regular visitors among you - to be honest, I was and am still surprised myself ;-) So what's the surprise? In their 12-week rodent study that was devised to elucidate whether the addition of a neutralizing amount of potassium bicarbonate (KHCO3) to purifie...
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Detrimental Effects of Aerobic & High Oxygen Packaging on Meat Quality: 2x Higher Lipid & Cholesterol Oxidation, Less Tender, More Drip Loss, Less Juicy... but More Convenient!

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Rosy, but rusty: "Fresh" meat packaged with 70% oxygen. I don't know about the US, but most of the "fresh" meat, you buy at the Supermarket here in Germany is packaged in what the label calls a " Schutzatmosphäre ". Literally translated this means nothing but a "protective atmosphere" and it refers to the supposedly bacteria-free high oxygen air that's pumped into the airtight packaging in which the chicken breasts and beef steaks, the pork and lamb and all the other appetizingly looking meats are stored for up to a week in the fridges of the meat counter. Good to now it's protected! Right? If you ever bought a product like that you will have realized that you can easily store it for the whole 7day+ period in you fridge and - as long as the airtight plastic container is not broken - it will look and smell almost as it did on day one, when you rip the container open and take a closer look, whether the meat you are about to prep...
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Cod Liver Oil vs. URTI. 2x Higher Fat Oxidation W/ Optimal Workout Timing, Aggressive Diabesity Control, Seaweed & Breast Cancer and NO Supplements Superior to Sugar

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Self-proclaimed experts will say: "No cod liver! It's poison! It has way too much vitamin A... you better pop a kg of vitamin D pills if you want to do something for your health." Really? How do you explain the results of the Robertson study, then? "Grandma was right" - That's if you will the statement of the week - a statement that is verified by the SuppVersity Figure of the Week which is p = 0.04 and describes the probability that the association between the consumption of cod liver oil and a decreased occurrence of upper respiratory tract infects (URTI) Swedish researchers observed in a cohort of 6350 middle-aged and elderly participants in the Tromsø Study 6 , of which Robertsen et al. had actually expected that it would finally confirm the protective effects of high(er) vitamin D levels / intake against respiratory disease. As it turned out, however, neither vitamin D (25-OHD), nor the intake of fish, n-3 capsules or vitamin and/or mineral suppl...
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