Archive for the Muscle building Category
By Jeremy Bane (reprinted with kind permission of ‘Hard Gainer’)
When it comes to protein, most bodybuilders agree that you need more than the average couch potato if you want to make rapid gains in muscle size and strength.
The amino acid L-arginine is most familiar today as the main active ingredient in popular food supplements designed to boost nitric oxide (NO) levels.
Depending on who you ask, soy products are either a great boon to mankind or the worst crap on Earth. Those who advocate the use of soy in its various forms, including soy protein, tofu and soy flour, point to many studies that show protective effects. A study of Seventh Day Adventist (a religious movement) men, for example, associated drinking soy milk with a 70 percent reduction in prostate cancer.
An exciting new study from Mississippi State University shows that a blend of whey protein, amino acids, Creatine, and carbohydrate taken after exercise is twice as effective at triggering muscle growth as a carbohydrate-only drink.
Writing in Flex magazine, Jim Wright thinks that it might be “the most significant advance in Creatine supplements since Creatine monohydrate was originally introduced to the bodybuilding market.” Muscle and Fitness magazine is also optimistic, writing that it, “certainly warrants a closer look from anyone looking for a boost to his or her muscle gains.” What are they talking about?
By John Hortel (reprinted with kind permission of ‘Pump It’ publication)
For a lot of guys, muscle growth can be a painfully slow process. They bust a gut three or four times a week in the gym, eat all the right foods, and have little or nothing to show for it.
Just imagine if you could pump out more reps, sets and recover like a professional athlete. Think how much bigger and stronger you'd be if you could crank out that final muscle-building rep on every set of every exercise every single workout instead of just once in a while.
Taking Creatine monohydrate and whey protein before and after resistance exercise improves muscle gain and strength compared to taking them at other times of the day, says Australian research.
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