It has been known for many years now that you need enough of all eight essential amino acids to be able to produce quality lean muscle, which speeds up your metabolism.
Research is now indicating that the branched chain amino acids (BCAAs)isoleucine, leucine and valine are the most important and main drivers of new muscle growth. BCAAs are absolutely necessary as the building blocks for new muscle growth and repair, but they also provide energy to the muscles.
A cocktail of red grapes and green tea extracts combined with the amino acid L-carnitine is added to more expensive pet foods for older dogs and cats. And no doubt there are slimming supplements for humans on the market that also contain the mixture. (more…)
Note these substances down: alpha-lipoic acid, acetyl-L-carnitine, biotin, vitamins B2, B3 en B6, creatine, Q10, resveratrol and taurine. Put them all together in a capsule and you’ve got a supplement that will probably help serious endurance athletes to achieve better times. (more…)
Curcumin is perhaps the most interesting supplement being written about by scientists right now. True, hardly any research has been done on humans, and the French research that will be published soon in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry is an animal study. But if this animal study confirms that curcumin really has anabolic qualities, we won’t be complaining. (more…)
Cocoacontains a compound that boosts the positive effects of endurance exertion. Researchers at the University of California gave (-)-epicatechin to mice that walked fast for half an hour a day on a treadmill and observed that the mice’s stamina increased dramatically. So does cocoa boost the effectiveness of condition training? (more…)
Fushimi T, Sato Y.
Central Research Institute, Mizkan Group Corporation, 2-6 Nakamura-cho, Handa, Aichi 475-8585, Japan. tfushimi@mizkan.co.jp
The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of acetic acid feeding on the circadian changes in glycogen concentration in liver and skeletal muscle. (more…)
Glycogen, the muscle’s primary fuel source during exercise, is replenished more rapidly when athletes ingest both carbohydrate and caffeine following exhaustive exercise, new research shows. Athletes who ingested caffeine with carbohydrate had 66% more glycogen in their muscles four hours after finishing intense, glycogen-depleting exercise, compared to when they consumed carbohydrate alone, according to the study. (more…)
Proper fluid balance is a requirement for not only athletic performance, but proper functioning of the human body. Dehydration is a condition that can and does affect a great many people and may cause many undesirable effects. One study found that about 15,000 episodes of dehydration and/or heat illness occurred during a two year research period in high school athletes, which led the athlete missing from 1 day to 1 week of practice or competition (Hoffman, et al). This article will attempt to talk about some issues related to dehydration and provide some strategies to avoid and correct dehydration before, during and after athletic competition. (more…)
You eat the same amount, and don’t change your fat, protein or carbohydrate intake. But still you burn more fat and build up more muscle tissue. Yes, say researchers at Michigan State University, it’s possible. All you have to do is time your protein intake a little better. Drink your shake before your training session, and watch what happens. (more…)
The only way to lose weight is to burn more energy than you eat. In an article written almost twenty years ago, published in 1990 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, we read about a way to get your body to burn just a little more energy, which is interesting for bodybuilders. Are you ready for it?
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