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Training For Gains: High Intensity, Low Volume Strength Gains Stick. Low Intensity, High Volume Gains Don't, But They Come With Significant Improvements in Body Comp

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It's one thing to make strength and mass gains , it's a whole different story to make them last - if possible, for the rest of your life! Study suggests: Training intense, may help. Thank God for the Internet. Otherwise we would hardly be able to get our hands on papers that are written by Iranian scientists and published in the Turkish Journal of Sport and Exercise ; and that, my dear (mostly) American friends, would be a real pity! "Effect of acute detraining following two types of resistance training on strength performance and body composition in trained athletes" - that's the title of a paper that was published late last year but popped up in the major databases, only recently. In spite of the delay, the results Vahid Tadibi and his colleagues from the Razi University , the  University of Kordestan and the Islamic Azad University present in this 5-pages paper are unquestionably well worth being covered. Don't forget to feed your muscles and le...

Of Liars & Grunters: More Than 500kcal/day That's the Minimal Amount of Energy >37% Overweight Subjects Don't Report. Plus: Grunt Your Way to a Powerful Serve

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"Don't tell!" or "Shut up!" - What could the lady on the top possibly be meaning? It's not always feasible to find exciting new studies everyday - specifically if you are already grunting under an unbearably high workload.... ok, you got me: That was a pun and a pretty bad one. "Grunting" is after all the topic of one out of two of the studies I am going to discuss in today's installment of On Short Notice . Moaning tennis players, to be precise. Nasty? I totally agree, but it obviously helps them to serve harder. Apropos harder! Dieting is pretty hard and acknowledging that your failure may be the result of your inability to stick to your diet and not the 2g of carbs that are still left in your "healthy low carb diet", s not exactly something overweight and obese men and women like to do. With >37% of the overweight participants of a large scale epidemiology not reporting 500kcal or more of their daily energy intake, you wil...

Protein Power - Study Suggests: 40%+ is Where True Magic Happens. Plus: If Protein is King, Whey is the Emperor

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It's not just about more protein it's about significantly more protein and - possibly - also about whey! Just to make sure: Yes, I know the study I am about to discuss in today's SuppVersity article is a rodent study - a rodent study by researchers from the University College Cork and the University College Dublin (Mc Allan. 2014).  And yes, I know that you ain't no fury little mouse or rat... ... but I do also know that the beneficial metabolic effects of high protein intakes appear to be even more, not less pronounced in human beings and will thus not mention 500x that the assumption that we'd see similar benefits in men and women would obviously require experimental confirmation... alright? Now that we are clear, dear non-dams and non-bucks... ... you are probably already drooling at the sought of reading yet another "high protein is good for you" study. Don't worry I am not going keep you on the tenderhooks longer than absolutely neces...

There is Such a Thing As Overtraining, Beware! When IGF-1, MyoD & Myogenin Plummet and MAFbx Gnaws Away Your Muscles, It'll Already be Too Late to Acknowledge

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Overtraining is real and it's blocking future and reversing past gains. I am well aware that somewhere out there in the broscientific spheres of the pseudo-experts on the various bulletin boards of a world people call the Internet statements like "there is no overtraining, just undereating" are not uncommon. And in fact, there is a certain connection between the effects / symptoms we usually associate with over training on the one, and the consequences of under eating on the other hand. It's a perfect synergy, if you will - a synergy I have been writing about in the past (suggested read: "The SuppVersity Athletes' Triad Series" | read more ), but it's not what the most recent study from the Sao Paulo State University in Brazil is about (Alves Souza. 2014). Overtraining comes in two forms If this is not your first visit to the SuppVersity the phrases "sympathetic" and "parasympathetic" overtraining will probably sound ...

Veggies Rule: As an Adjunct to Your Starches Leafy Greens Reduce Postprandial Glycemia + Insulin and Boost the Production of the Anti-Obesogenic Satiety Hormone GLP-1

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Don't worry, you don't have to eat veggies only for the rest of your life, but you should never eat a meal without them! I've been writing about the "add fat to your carbs to ameliorate the obesogenic insulin response" bullsh*t before (see "True or False? Adding Fat to A Carby Meal Lowers Insulin Response. Muscle Hypertrophy Impairs Oxygen Diffusion. Reducing Carb Intake Improve Muscular Insulin Sensitivity" | read more ). What I have not been writing about before are better alternatives. Alternatives such as a huge bowl of veggies. A bowl like the one the participants in a recent study from the Graduate School of Human Sciences and Design at the Japan Women’s University in Tokyo consumed as an adjunct to a standardized white rice meal. Add veggies to your rice! Basically, the scientists tested four different conditions. In condition (S), the participants consumed only the staple food (boiled white rice weighing 200 g heated in a microwave oven...

Exercise Threesome: 40g of Galactose = 17% More Stamina Than W/ Same Amount of Glucose ☆ Faster Sprints W/ Psychological Tricks ☆ 10% Lower Insulin W/ Exercise

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A neat threesome, anyone? A threesome is always quite entertaining, especially, when it's one that can help you (a) increase your stamina, (b) boost your sprint performance, and (c) decrease your fasting insulin levels by 10%. Ok, I have to admit it will probably not suffice if you only read the following paragraph, but buying 40g of galactose, playing a couple of psycho-games on yourself and the adherence to the regular exercise program you are already performing anyway (right!?) is something you will probably manage to do, as well. 40g galactose before a workout will increase your stamina (O'Hara. 2014) -- Basically that is already the main finding of a recent study by John P. O'Hara et al... well, aside from the fact that the same dose of glucose didn't produce similar benefits - but let's tackle one thing after the other... The researchers evaluated the effects of the pre-exercise (30 minutes) ingestion of galactose (Gal) or glucose (Glu) on endurance c...

Study Confirms Antioxidants (C+E) Are Bad For Healthy People Who Train, But in Some Subjects C+E Increase the Fat Loss Effects of HIIT + HIT by a Whopping 60%

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The anti-long-term health, but pro short term fat loss effects of vitamin C + E I must admit that I filed the study by Paulsen et al. (2014; accepted manuscript) under "further evidence that high doses of anti-oxidants do more harm than good to active individuals" the very moment I posted the information from the corresponding press release in the SuppVersity Facebook News ( read it! ). A couple of days ago, I wanted to cite the paper in a different context and took a closer look at the actual results (yeah, even I sometimes only read the abstract) and as it turns out,... ...the scientists left out some information, you may be interested in, ... ...even though it may not be relevant from a statistical perspective. How I know things about your interests?Based on the visitor statistics of the SuppVersity . I just have to take a brief look at them to know that the vast majority of you will be intrigued to hear that the "daily vitamin C and E supplementation...
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