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Bench Press - The Truth About the Effects of Bench Angle on Pec Activity...
The bench press, in one form or another, is part of almost everyone's workout, but what's the best way to do it?You may have seen Brad Schoenfeld's post about the just accepted study of his that...
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Nigella Sativa Quadruples Fat Loss Success: 8% vs. 2% Rel. Body Fat Reduction...
Nigella sativa is not well known in the West.You may remember the SuppVersity special on Nigella sativa from January 2015. A special, in which beneficial metabolic effects of nigella sativa aka black...
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Resting as Long as You Think Fit Reduces Training Time W/Out Reducing the...
The study provides only preliminary evidence, but it is evidence... You will certainly remember the SuppVersity article about the beneficial effects of long(er) rest times on strength and size gains...
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Can an Alternate-Day High Fat Diet Turn You into a Fat Burning Machine (Boost...
Whether the "alternate-day high fat diet" is in fact an alternative to "training low and competing high", which you can also tweak like this, appears questionable to me, but it is certainly...
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GABA - An Effective Sleep Aid W/ GH Boosting Effects that Works Within 30...
Spinach and beans, two good sources of dietary GABA - 42 µg/g in spinach, 25 µg/g in beans (Oh. 2003)You may remember my previous article about GABA and the accompanying discussion I had with my friend...
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Creatine: 17-20g for Loading is Bogus, 5-7g May be More Than Necessary to...
Yes, this study suggests that my previous statement that 3g of creatine per day are probably enough.... still direct comparisons of diff. doses are warranted.You may remember that I wrote about the...
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Antihistamines Block Gene Response to Exercise + Impair its...
Is all the exercise you do for nothing if you have to take antihistamines? Unlikely, but what appears to be certain is that they have indeed negative effects on the exercise-induced adaptation process...
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BFR, Detraining Mass & Strength | Multiple Sets Multiply 'Ur EE | 1- vs....
The # of hands you use to hold your KB while doing swings determines core muscle activity.With the publication of the latest issue of the The Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research (May 2016 -...
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Discontinuing the Set When You Slow Down on Squats May Boost Strength Gains +...
You want to get rid of those tiny weights and squat big time? Maybe you should watch your squatting velocity... and no, I am not talking about slowing down - rather about keeping your rep speed.While...
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Baking Bread With ~100g Extra-Fat Reduces the Glycemic Response: Coconut Oil...
No, adding fat to your bread's dough won't make you lose fat magically.While fat no longer has the bad rep it still had a decade ago, the notion that baking bread with extra fat could have...
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Breakdown aka Drop-Sets, Another Very Popular Advanced Training Technique...
"There are some crossovers between size training and strength training, and using drop-sets and ladder sets will definitely give some benefit ...," this is what you can read on the Internet, but is...
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Cholesterol Boosts Your Immune Defenses: Infections Can Lower Cholesterol,...
Health food for sick people - Much better than cholesterol supplements ;-)Cholesterol is the villain of the 20th century. In the 21st century, however, the evidence that vilifying the building-block of...
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Endurance Athletes May Benefit From High-GI Meals Before Competition: 18%...
Hillariously sweet, super cheap, and surprisingly effective: glucose!While most of you will probably already have discarded the notion that you can only lose weight if you eat a diet with an extremely...
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Not Resting Long Enough May Ruin Your Gains! 1 vs. 5 min Cut Post-Workout...
Rest is not a waste of time ;-)You may remember Schoenfeld et al's 2015 study with the telling title "Longer inter-set rest periods enhance muscle strength and hypertrophy in resistance-trained men"...
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The Insulin / Glucagon Ratio and Why Diabetics and People W/ Severe Insulin...
You're insulin resistant and trying to lose weight with high protein intakes? Then you got to read this article carefully...High protein diets can help you lose weight while maintaining muscle mass....
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Shilajit: Ayurvedic Testosterone Booster that Works in Men, not Rats: ~20%...
"Get leaner, more muscular and hornier than ever before" - That's probably the promise on the T-booster someone will release after reading this SuppVersity article and sourcing an inferior Shilajit...
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Accentuated Eccentric, Extra-Ordinary Gains - Benefits are Exuberant Compared...
Single-arm dumbbell curls are unquestionably the exercise people will do most frequently with accentuated eccentrics and supra-maximal loads. Unfortunately, the study at hand used only leg exercises....
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Study Suggests Superiority of Dieting With 2 Refeeds/Week vs. Continuous...
This is not the kind of refeed I would suggest - irrespective of how effective refeeds are using all of them to pig out to the extremes will be counter-productive.There are three purported benefits of...
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Interaction of Fat Cell Size, Protein Intake & Co. W/ Fat Gain + Insulin Res....
That's rather the low protein variety of overfeeding... but wait, was the high protein diet even "high" in protein? Well high enough to affect liver fat, for sure.You will probably remember José...
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High Dose Caffeine Restores Insulin Sensitivity and Limits Total as Well as...
Yes, the study at hand is on caffeine, but the results are relevant for coffee, too.A decade ago, the medical community though coffee would dehydrate you, would make you insulin resistant and would...
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