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Update on GAINZ: More Muscle & Strength W/ Exercises You Like | Deadlifting...
No, bro - Losing your shoes won't allow you to magically lift thrice your BW when your current 1-RM is only twice your BW.Who would have thought that? If trained subjects are allowed to chose their...
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Cathine (Alvalin®) a Legitimate 'New Ephedra'? 9.1kg vs. 2.4 kg Weight Lost,...
You don't have to switch to eating pills, only. Don't worry. What you will still have to do, though, is to (a) clean up your diet, (b) stop eating everything in sight, and (c) achieve a caloric...
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400 mg ATP Supplementation Acutely Ergogenic - Gymrats' Max. Leg Workout...
Needless to say that the study at hand cannot prove that, but it is logical to assume that similar increases in training volume would be observed for full squats and other lower body exercises....
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CrossFit & Your Tendons | Cumulative & Continuous Cardio, One for Body...
RCT investigates: Can CrossFit threaten the health of your tendons? With studies about the effects of "cumulative" or "continuous" cardio on body composition and health, a (re-)evaluation of...
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Compression Garments - The Recovery Enhancer You're not Using (Yet?) -...
Is it funny, stupid or tragic that compression garments are advertised most heavily to endurance athletes who benefit the least, while resistance trainees are supplied with useless lifting shoes and...
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NaHCO3 aka Baking Soda Washes All Pesticides Off Your Fruits & Veggies | 100%...
Simply rinsing produce with tap water will not remove any relevant amount of pesticides.SuppVersity veterans will remember the 2013 installment of "True or False" discussing whether "Washing Your Fruit...
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Transdermal Magnesium - Finally a Human Study Suggests That Low-Dose Mg2+...
Supplement producers have built their business on the (unwarranted) premise that you cannot get enough magnesium from your diet, alone.Unlike the effectiveness of oral magnesium supplementation for the...
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Personal Trainer, Partner, or Simply Having an Audience - Three Ways of...
Ideally, your training partner is both competitive and supportive... and if there's no one around just asking the next best person to spot you will make a significant difference, too.Are you training...
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Weightlifting Shoes: What Does Research Tell Us About WL-Shoes' Effect on...
Nice gimmick or must have gym equipment? Answer: "it depends".People are investing more in gym-gear than ever before. $150, for example, for 25% discounted Adidas Weightlifting Shoes - is that a...
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16 Little Known Plants + Phytocompounds to Control(!) Your Cortisol Levels |...
Don't forget: Cortisol is no stressor, it's released to help us cope w/ stress.While I have repeatedly emphasized that the notion of cortisol as the "muscle-catabolic stress hormone" you have to "keep...
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Cold Water Immersion Blunts PWO Cell Swelling | 12mg Capsaicin Boost 1.5k TT...
If you want to show off your "guns" cold water immersion (CWI) may be counterproductive in the short- and long-run. In the hours and days after the workout, you'll miss the swelling, over weeks you'll...
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From Hero to Zero - HMB Doesn't Work at All... in Athletes and Trained...
If we go by the results of this latest meta-analysis, athletes and experienced gymrats don't benefit from HMB supplements.Roughly 4 years ago, HMB, which, once hailed as "as potent as a weak androgenic...
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Leucine, Whey Concentrate, Hydro Whey or Soy - How do They Affect Beginner's...
12 weeks of serious resistance training will transform the body of beginners, but it'll do that regardless of whether you supplement with protein or not, doctoral thesis shows.The headline of today's...
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No Native Advantage: RCT Compares High-Leucine "Native" Whey to Regular...
Is the literally "raw" raw material that's used to manufacture "native whey" worth the extra bucks the final products cost? Native whey fails the real world test.In February this year, I already...
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Carbs Before Workout Won't Lock Your Ab Fat in its Stores | Plus: Wired for...
Spiking insulin w/ high GI carbs before a workout doesn't blunt the release of fat from the stores covering your abs.Whenever I hit on journals like the latest issue of Medicine in Sports Science, a...
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The Ergogenic Effect of 'F*ck', 'Sh*t'& Co: Swearing Boosts Physical Power...
In case you wondered why 'that guy' at the gym, today, kept swearing despite the critical glances of the rest of the gym members? Well, he has probably read the SuppVersity article at hand before...
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Plasticized - Put Up or Shut Up: How Toxic is Our Daily Load of Bisphenol A...
"BPA free" labels may help to sell products. With more and more of the replacements being identified as just as, sometimes more hazardous than the original, they are, however, by no means as safe as...
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Fasted AM Cardio - No Measurable Physiological Benefits in Terms of Fat Loss...
Rope skipping is an excellent choice for HIIT cardio training... albeit, just like for so many others, the effects of doing it fasted have never been investigated.It has been debated for decades and...
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Caffeine as a Testosterone Booster? 70% Increase in the Big T Without...
I am curious if caffeine gum producers will start marketing them as testosterone boosters, now. People's willingness to waste money on temporary increases of a figure on their labwork is amazing, after...
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Caffeine & Creatine - Synergists, not Antagonists!? RCT: "Caffeine...
If you're looking for the extra-kick in leg workouts, the combination of caffeine and creatine may be just what you need. You will remember that I wrote about the results of Trexel's dissertation from...
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