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Best Supplements For MMA: Increase Your Fighting Performance And Recovery
You look at your opponent across the ring. His eyes are glaring, piercing and ready for battle. He is ready to pummel, crush and dominate you with speed, accuracy, power and endurance. Did you plan everything right? Was it enough? Training, nutrition, supplements – did you do what you needed to do t...
Road Warrior: Supplements For The Frequent Traveler
As road warriors, we don't have the luxury of carrying around a closet full of the latest supplements. The goal of this article is to outline supplements that benefit the Road Warrior, someone who travels frequently and may be living out of suitcases and hotels more often than their house or apartme...
Supplements For CrossFit®: What To Use For Maximum Workout Performance
It’s hard to find someone who hasn’t heard of the CrossFit® phenomenon. Any conversation about fitness, competition or general training isn’t without a mention of this highly popular, nationally recognized mode of exercise. And it is of no surprise – CrossFit® is comprised of numerous styles, callin...
Supplement Timing For Maximum Muscle And Performance
When it comes to supplements, timing is everything. You can research supplements until you’re blue in the face, but if you don’t now how and when to take them, you’re just flushing money down the drain. Proper supplement timing is an essential factor in maximizing your muscle and performance gains....
Supplement Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know?
Ever since graduating I’ve sort of missed the long, exhausting nights with my eyes glued to a biochemistry textbook. I don’t know why, I just always enjoyed learning and uncovering how the human body works. Moreover, given my interest in sports supplementation and the fact that Muscle & Strength has...
Is The Supplement Ingredient Quercetin the Real Deal?
One of the hottest ingredients as of late in the supplement industry for increasing performance is that of quercetin, it’s being promoted to provide a more ‘natural’ form of energy and to promote recovery. The truth is that quercetin is an effective supplement for intense training regimens, but we’l...
Supplement Like The Pros, Part 2: A Complete Analysis
When it comes to supplements, you just want the truth. Everyone under the sun has an opinion on what supplements to take, and nine times out of ten, these opinions contradict one another. So just what should you take? Is there a way to know what supplements are effective, and which are a waste of mo...
Supplement Like The Pros, Part 1: Top Supplements
Supplements can be a mystery. Add up all the different types of supplements, and possible supplement combinations, and it's enough to send rocket scientists to the medicine cabinet for some aspirin. So what should you take? What supplements are essentials, and the best buy for your hard-earned cash?...
Your Complete Summer 6 Pack Supplement Guide
Supplements are an amazing tool to help reach your goals. If that goal is to be bigger, stronger, faster, or in better shape, supplements can help with increasing your ability to reach that goal. “Six Pack Season” or Summer as the rest of the world calls it is just around the corner. Summer is a tim...
Steroids And Their Harmful Side Effects
The term steroids normally are associated with reference to a class of drugs that are used to treat a variety of medical conditions. Steroids have several uses for medical purposes, such as maintaining sexual characteristics in males following surgery for removal of testes following testicular cance...
Steroids - How Far Will You Go?
How far can you take muscle building? How far can you take it before it is too far? There is a price for those superficial muscles that you acquire from steroid use. There are many dangerous long term and short term effects that are associated with steroid abuse; and these dangers begin to take effe...
Stacking Creatine and Beta-Alanine For Better Results
The effectiveness of creatine supplementation is well known. Creatine increases lean muscle mass, boosts strength, and provides you with more energy during intense workouts. Combine the effectiveness of creatine with the fact that it has no side effects, and you have a recipe for a best-selling supp...
Skinny Vs. Fat: How To Supplement For Your Body Type!
The grass is always greener. We all know this saying. Whether it is about your friend's blonde wife when you have a brunette wife, or the guy with the office job who wishes he worked outdoors. What about the greatest screwjob of all? Your bodytype! Naturally skinny people (ectomorphs) complain const...
Should You Take a Whey Protein Isolate Post-Workout?
Reaching for a protein shake immediately following their workout has been the habit of many athletes looking to take advantage of the “anabolic window”. For years, the supplement industry has insisted that there is a short window of opportunity post-workout in which anabolism can be enhanced by drin...
Should You Use a BCAA Supplement?
I have been heavily involved in the fitness industry for 30 years now, spending most of that time as a competitive bodybuilder, trainer, coach and physique transformation specialist. I have also worked with many of the most prominent supplement companies, helping to research, formulate, and test hun...
Night Gains: Should You Consume Protein Before Bed?
Of all the factors associated with muscle growth, the single biggest barrier to building lean mass could be adequate protein consumption. The quality and amount of protein consumed throughout the day has a major bearing on the quality of muscle growth we are likely to experience. To further the grow...
Scivation Xtend: A True Supplement Staple?
I have to admit, I’m an old school kind of guy. I believe that muscle and strength gains come from hard work and dedication, and I think twice before spending money on any supplement. Sure, I have my supplement staples…whey protein, creatine, nitric oxide, fish oil, a multivitamin, but until recentl...
How Seasonal Variations In Cow’s Milk Affects Whey Protein
From time to time, a client will question why their whey protein seems “different.” This has to do with source of cheese that the whey was derived from, and the associated method utilized in cheese production. Another reason they whey can be "different" has to do with the diet of the cows during la...
How to Reduce Inflammation With These Foods and Supplements
Normally, short-term inflammation is a natural process that plays an important role in healing and cellular repair when you’re injured or sick. However, it can also be bad, very bad, depending on the cause and duration. This is known as chronic low-key inflammation, and plays an integrative role in...
Q&A With Brad Borland, Volume 1: Post Training Nutrition
Post-Workout Nutrition and Supplementation: A Practical Look You work hard every trip you take to the gym. You would never want your hard-earned efforts to go to waste would you? Gaining muscle and losing fat is hard enough without the confusion of trying to ingest the right formula of post-training...
How Protein Consumption & Quality Impact Body Composition
Not consuming protein is almost as bad as committing a crime. Think of it as robbing a bank that has no money. All that effort planning the robbery and committing it and you don’t even get a penny out of it. By not consuming protein you are robbing your body of the many benefits protein has to offer...
Prohormones: Side Effects & Best Alternatives
Prohormones are inexpensive. You only have to do a little bit of web surfing to find a bottle that sells for around $30-35. And for your thirty smackerolas, you get a one month cycle. Not a bad deal, eh? Before I address this question, and provide you with a shocking answer, I want to get something...
Prioritize Your Supplement Purchases
You train hard, eat right, and get results. To go along with your dedication, you also want to maximize your supplement plan. But where do you begin? There are so many quality supplements on the market – protein powders, pre-workout formulas, creatine blends…the list goes on and on. Look no further....
Powerlifting Supplements: 5 Key Ingredients To Boost Performance & Recovery
Speed, power and strength: Just a few of the requirements of a successful powerlifter. Form meets function in this sport of inches and it would behoove anyone to look for an edge to separate one from being a champion and not being a champion. Just like any other sport, lifters need nutritional suppo...