by Paul C. Henning, Ph.D. CSCS | Research
Dietary supplements are widely used to enhance performance and body composition during training programs. Utilizing supplements while recovering from musculoskeletal injury hasn’t really been investigated. Clinical experience shows that as soon as someone gets...
by Jeff Willet | Articles
Earlier this week I received an email from one of our readers in which he forwarded an excerpt from an article about cardio. This article was written by a strength coach, and in the passage, the coach was explaining why he suggests doing cardio directly after...
by AST Sports Science | Articles
Exercise is the best medicine in the world, and the only side effects are greater strength, outstanding performance, optimum health, and the highest quality of life. Exercise makes you leaner, stronger, fitter and smarter. Here are six little-known facts that should...
by Dana Bushell | Articles, Training
Bodybuilding can become mundane. The basic formula for success is pretty much the same for everyone (train, eat, sleep, repeat). The differences come from the types of foods we eat, our training and of course our lifestyle. Once the formula for success has been...
by Paul Delia | Articles, Research
Creatine Monohydrate is an amazing supplement. When it comes to building muscle and strength creatine is in a league of its own. Though there are close to a thousand studies on creatine and increasing performance, as you’ll see here, there is still a lot to be...
by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Articles, Research
In Part-2 we looked at what hypertrophy is, the most effective type of training that activates the hypertrophic response and the relationship between strength development and muscle growth. In this article we’ll look at what time frame do these changes occur? What’s...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
For many years I, like many of you athletes and bodybuilders out there, have concerned myself on a daily basis with making sure I have adequate protein intake throughout the day. Whether it was preparing meals in advance to make sure I could get quality protein meals...
by Dana Bushell | Articles
If you have been following the world of fitness in general and have picked up a magazine or even just watched television in the past decade, there is one thing you have probably noticed; a bombardment of advertisements directed at you all claiming to be the secret to...
by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Research
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows how a newly identified protein in fat cells regulates the activity of a key gene responsible for stimulating thermogenesis; an effect that ensures better fat metabolism. Thermogenesis is...
by Paul Cribb Ph.D. CSCS. | Research
Creatine is probably the best and the worst product ever to emerge from the supplement industry. Best because of its effectiveness in building muscle and strength. Worst because many supplement companies have exploited the research at your expense. So which is the...
