It goes like this: A client looking to lead a healthier life hires me, a nutritionist, to help him improve his diet. I analyze what he’s been eating, factor in his food preferences, and together we create an eating plan that fits his lifestyle and goals. Soon after, he’s noticeably leaner and more energetic–a happy customer.
That’s when [...]
Research published in The European Journal of Nutrition this week has finally cracked the myths surrounding eggs and cholesterol. The new study showed that people who ate two eggs per day, while on a calorie-restricted diet, not only lost weight but also reduced their blood cholesterol levels.
A research team from the University of Surrey headed [...]
Creatine does about the same for your brains as it does for your muscles, according to a study from the British University College Chichester, which appeared last year in Psychopharmacology. Just as creatine enables your muscles at the end of your sets to make a few extra reps, it also helps tired brains to think [...]
The best way to develop more strength in your arms is to train them together with a large muscle groups such as the legs. This theory was put forward by sports scientists at Odense University, Denmark, in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. Training large muscle groups results in anabolic hormone peaks [...]
Watching pornographic film clips increases the concentration of the anabolic hormone testosterone in the body and lowers the level of the catabolic hormone cortisol. Post-adolescent workers at Ergo-log.com read about this in an eighteen-year-old study, in which Scottish endocrinologists got eight male students to watch pornographic videos for twenty minutes. The researchers [...]
We’ve all been there: a hot gym on a hot day, when the air conditioning has broken down and all we have to cool us is a bottle of water and a towel. Whether you’re on the treadmill or in the powerlifting pit, the heat is tough. Researchers want to help fix that.
German researchers conducted [...]
Learn how to increase your bench press today with these awesome 20 tips. Learn how to bench properly and the techniques of a huge bench from champion bodybuilder Anthony Church!
1. Shoulders Back When bench pressing your shoulder girdle should be kept in a RETRACTED position. This may take practice at first if your not used [...]
Everyone knows that fruits and vegetables are good for you - that much hasn’t changed. But with the advance of medicine and nutrition and the marriage of the two, interdisciplinary studies are returning scientific scrutiny back to our foods, in the hopes of learning more about foods, the ultimate goal being the development of [...]
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 31(3):428-436, March 1999.
McCAW, STEVEN T.; MELROSE, DONALD R.
Abstract:
Stance width and bar load effects on leg muscle activity during the parallel squat. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 428-436, 1999.
Purpose: Altering foot stance is often prescribed as a method of isolating muscles during the parallel squat. [...]
A Brief Review
Roxanne Horwath and Len Kravitz, Ph.D.
Introduction
Enhancing the acute and chronic effects of resistance training on a person’s overall athletic performance is the goal of many researchers, strength and conditioning professionals and personal trainers. To that end, many resistance training methods, training strategies and ergogenic aids have been investigated. Some of the underlying mechanisms [...]
Luis M. Alvidrez and Len Kravitz, Ph.D.
Introduction:
Exercise places a major challenge on the body due to the increased energy needs and physiological demands put upon the body’s nervous, muscular, cardiovascular, metabolic and respiratory systems. As a body goes through these responses and subsequent adaptations to exercise, there are a number of complex hormonal interactions occurring [...]
Background
Human trials on the effect of meal frequency on body composition are scarce. Short-term studies show increased rate of protein synthesis immediately after intake of amino acids (Rennie 2002), and frequent meals are shown to aid in the preservation of lean body mass when dieting (Iwao 1996). Consequently it could be hypothesised that in response [...]