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Strength Plateau? Try Daily Changing Loads: In Advanced Trainees, A, B,...
DCL, i.e. using daily changing loards worked for both, men and women.The object of today's SuppVersity article comes almost from around the corner: a study conducted by Christoph Eifler, a scientist...
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Creatine Uptake, Bioavailability, and Efficacy - We've Gotten it all Wrong...
If you put some faith into the marketing campaigns of supp producers, there's a creatine for everyone: one to get lean, one to get strong and one to get big and buffed... bullocks!It has been a while...
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Taurine Boosts Good Gut Bacteria & Short-Chain Fatty Acid Prod. | 1st Study...
The bacteria in our guts are the latest rage in medical sciences... and taurine, especially natural taurine, may be a way to modulate them in beneficial ways.It has been some time since the last...
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Cheese & Your Health: CVD, Cancer & Metabolic Syndrome - Cheesy Science or...
Cheeses come in all forms and colors.Cheese is not exactly the first food that comes to mind when we think about "healthy eating". Rightly so? Today's overview of recent cheese studies tries to answer...
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When "No Load Training" Builds Muscle and Classic Biceps Curls Diminish Your...
Do not misunderstand the results of the study at hand. It does not "proof that you don't have to use weights to make size gains" and it does not even suggest that "training without load works as...
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Resistant Starch (RS4) for Fat Loss & Exercise Performance
RS4 is still relatively difficult to come by. Options I know of are ActiStar® from Cargill and Fibersym® fom MGP. RS2 and RS3 alternatives are raw potato starch and, as previously discussed, banana...
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LED Therapy: 30% Increase in Max. # of Reps in New Study, Increased Stamina...
The scientists used an LEDT device from Thor on two points on the distal portion of the vastus lateralis, two points on the distal portion of the vastus medialis and two centered points along the...
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450-700kcal/day Diet Cuts 7% Body Fat in 3 Weeks - Only if You go Keto,...
Not basing both the ketogenic and regular very low calorie diet on whole foods, only was only one of at least 3 problems with the study at hand that can thus not be considered the ultimate litmus test...
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Excessive Cardio & Testosterone: The free T / Cortisol Ratio Revisited |...
Cardio - Only "too much" can hurt you.Let me get this straight: this is not an anti-cardio article. There's not just little, there's rather absolutely no doubt that a sane amount of endurance training...
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Carbs, Leucine-Rich Whey or Soy +/- HMB - What's Best to Protect Muscle From...
I still believe that the ill effects of fasting on skeletal muscle are way overrated, but I guess it won't hurt if you would be able to minimize it by sipping 60g of protein, right? A new study says:...
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Spore-Forming Probiotics - The Better Probiotics? Review
Sauerkraut is one of the best known probiotic foods, but there's more: Kefir & yogurt, kimchi, kombucha, miso, pickles, apple cidar vinegar, and - as discussed recently - raw cheese.I found out...
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Sucralose: Sweet Taste / Energy Content Mismatch Offsets Our Nutrient Gauge...
Beware: Splenda(R) is not sucralose, but 95% dextrose (D-glucose) and +Â maltodextrin combined with an undisclosed small amount of mostly indigestible sucralose."These findings further reinforce the...
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Cordyceps militaris Improves Tolerance to High Intensity Exercise - Effects...
In China, cordyceps is also used in dishes - here: Chicken With Mushroom & Cordyceps Militaris Soup.Cordyceps is the tribulus of adaptogens... why's that? If you look at the scientific evidence...
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Casein & Fat Oxid., Protein, BCAA, T-Booster, Omega-3, Beta-Alanine, GABA,...
Science Round-Up July '16Whoo... those were ~1000 presentations and poster abstracts in the May 2016 supplement of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise and not each of them was exactly...
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Proteinlimit, Muscle Damage & T2DM, Calories, Everyday Biceps T., Hydration,...
Science is a social endeavor. Those who fail to realize that will never reach their full intellectual capacity.As I pointed out two days ago, there were still a lot of studies to discuss in the May...
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Weights and Barefoot Running are More, EPO Much Less Effective than You May...
Join hands w/ science!The piles of research that is published on a daily basis is enormous. Not all of it can make it to the SuppVersity News, but studies that made it into the Journal of Strength and...
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Go Slow to Grow: Almost 3x Bigger Biceps W/ Slow Reps
Beware: Results could differ for e.g. legs.12 weeks of "[r]esistance training [of the elbow flexors = biceps] with slow speed of movement is better for hypertrophy and muscle strength gains than fast...
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Caffeine Timing Revisited: Taking Your Caffeine Supplement During (Longer)...
Yes, it may in fact make sense to shovel down another scoop of your preworkout if you train for 2h. Just try to remain below the sign. stress-dosage of 600-800mg caffeine/day (Beaven. 2008).I have...
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To Microwave or not to Microwave? Fish Thrives, While Extra Virgin Olive Oil...
The effect of microwave steaming, i.e. steaming with the microwave by the means of one of those microwave steaming bags has not been tested in the study at hand, but it should be relatively harmless......
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Building Extra-Strength With Cluster Training (6x1 With 25s Rest) - Works,...
Cluster training is something most of you will be familiar with. To do it back squats, instead of curls or bench presses, however, is something you don't see very often in the gym, these days - rightly...
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