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Inspiratory Muscle Training, HIIT or RT for Your Kids? Cold Water Immersion & Altitude Training - Who Benefits, When?

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This is about as intense as it gets in PA sessions. What about HIIT and RT in schools? With the ahead-of-print publication of articles for one of the future issues of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning, it is about time for another SuppVersity Exercise Research Update  in the short news. Today's installment revolves around five question: (a) Who benefits from acute cold-water immersion? (b) Which athletes benefit most from altitude training? (c) Is inspiratory muscle training actually ergogenic? And (d) will exercise in the cold impair your immune function? Read more exercise-related articles from " on short notice " and other columns 30% More on the Big Three: Squat, DL, BP! Mix Things Up to Make Extra-Gains Kettlebell, BFR, Detraining & Your Core/Abs 12% Body Fat in 12 Weeks W/ Periodization Bands, Deadlifts, HIIT Varieties and more! Tapering 101 - Learn How It's Done! Acute Responses to Resistance and High Intensity Interval...
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Bright Light Exposure Improves Your Workouts Sign. (~8%)

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Would be interesting to compare sunlight and artificial light in future studies. You will remember the circadian rhythm series in which I have previously discussed the relevance of light exposure as a means to set, reset and entrain your internal clock in order to reap all sorts of health and performance benefits. Bright (>4000 lux), preferable blue (at least having a blue component) light has repeatedly been shown to increase athletic performance. Studies like Kantermann et al. (2012) show, however, that the efficacy of bright light exposure significantly depends on the chronotype of an athlete. Learn more about the health effects of correct / messed up  circadian rhythms Sunlight, Bluelight, Backlight and Your Clock Sunlight a La Carte: "Hack" Your Rhythm Breaking the Fast to Synchronize the Clock Fasting (Re-)Sets the Peripheral Clock Vitamin A & Caffeine Set the Clock Pre-Workout Supps Could Ruin Your Sleep In said study, the athletes ...
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Drop-Sets Build, Don't Destroy Older Muscle - 50-Y+ Agers Gain >200% More Lean Muscle W/ Extra Creatine | What do Other Studies Say About the Power of Doing Drop-Sets?

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Should she drop the weight and add another set? Whether dropsets are superior to regular workouts is unfortu-nately a question the study at hand cannot answer. To learn more, you should read the information in the red box. What I really like about having a few thousand friends on Facebook is that you  point me to the few interesting studies I may not have read yet. One of these studies comes from Darren Candow who posted a link to an interesting "dropset +/- creatine in the elderly" study (Johannsmeyer. 2016) on the ISSN Facebook page . The study was published ahead of print a few days ago and deals with the "[e]ffect of creatine supplementation and drop-set resistance training in untrained aging adults" (Johannsmeyer. 2016). More specifically, the objective of the study was to investigate the effects of creatine supplementation and drop-set resistance training in untrained aging adults. What the study did not do, unfortunately, is to compare drop-set to regu...
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Cupping for Pain, Health & Performance | Must Be Good, if Phelps Does it, Right? Let's See What the 100+ Studies Say

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The "cups" come in various forms and sizes... and no, there's no meta-analysis yet that can tell you what the optimal size and form for the treatment of a given disease / problem would be ;-) "If Phelps does it, it must be good!" I am pretty sure that SuppVersity  readers don't think like that this is why I'd like to invite you to join my brief research review on cupping, i.e. the use of cups that are sucked to specific acupuncture points on your back via a simply physics trick: After being heated with fire, the air in the cup expands rapidly only to decrease by the same extent after the pre-heated cup is placed on your back. The rapid reduction of the volume of air in the cup will will create a vacuum that will not just glue the cup to your skin, but literally suck some of your skin into the cup and the capillaries in the skin to rupture - no wonder Phelp's body was plastered with red "cup marks" during the Olympic games ;-) With Phe...
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