What’s Causing My Muscle Cramps – Q&A
Cramping is unfortunately a very complicated topic and while many simple solutions are often thrown out, they don’t always seem to work. Usually the culprit is issues with hydration per se or electrolyte levels; electrolytes are things like potassium, calcium, sodium and magnesium they are involved in transmission of the electrical signals in the body. Hence their name.
Fat-Free Mass Index in Users and NonUsers of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids – Research Review
Last Thursday, I published a guest article by Alan Aragon entitled Supplement Marketing on Steroids, which was a scientific and technical analysis of recent claims regarding rates of muscle mass gain and potential maximum size by the website Testosterone.nation. In a different contest, this topic was previously covered on this site in the article What Is my Genetic Muscular Potential?
Supplement Marketing on Steroids by Alan Aragon
A T-nation article was recently brought to my attention by flood of emails. Folks expressed everything from awe to outrage, but the biggest sentiment was disbelief. “I, Bodybuilder” is in the form of a conversation between staff writer Nate Green and the owner of Biotest, Tim Patterson. It’s a prelude to the formal release of an upcoming supplement called Anaconda.
Reducing Body Fat Percentage by Gaining Muscle – Q&A
Yes and no. Strictly speaking, yes, if you can gain muscle without any accompanying fat gain, you will reduce your body fat percentage. However, the reality is that when you work the math, the impact of gaining muscle mass is miniscule approaching irrelevant, especially compared to the impact of actually losing fat through diet/activity.
What’s the Best Way to Teach or Learn a New Exercise – Q&A
The reason that this is a problem is that at least one aspect of motor learning (and please note that this topic is much more complicated than I’m making it out to be) is that learning new skills is best done when the individual is rested and unfatigued. And as fatigue starts to build up with higher repetition sets, the problem is that form tends to deteriorate. You end up teaching the trainee bad habits.
A Quick Look at Food Allergies and Intolerances
In recent year, a lot of ideas have become strangely popular on this place that we call the Internets, one of those is concern over various food allergies and intolerances . As I’ll discuss below, not only are true food allergies and intolerance two totally different things, there is a lot of nonsensical information being thrown around about food allergies.
Keeping the Power Inside the Bar
I honestly don’t remember anything that the guy told me except for the one thing I want to talk about in this article. It’s a piece of advice that resonated for some reason and that I still adhere to to this day. Quite in fact, I force this particular habit on every lifter I work with until I get them doing it too.
