Creatine: Understanding Effects of Discontinuation and Retaining Muscle Gains
While discontinuing creatine may reduce muscle fullness and slightly impact high-intensity performance due to water loss, it will not cause you to los...
By Alex
Category: Sports Nutrition
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Pre-Workout: How Late is Too Late and What Are Your Options?
To avoid sleep disruption, stimulant-based pre-workout supplements should generally be avoided within 6 hours of bedtime, though individual sensitivit...
By Alex
Caffeine and Exercise: Benefits, Optimal Dosing, and Considerations
Caffeine significantly influences exercise performance by acting on the central nervous system, altering pain perception, and mobilizing fat stores, l...
By Hart
Runners and Bagels: Fueling Performance, Recovery, and Timing
Runners frequently consume bagels due to their high carbohydrate content, which efficiently replenishes muscle glycogen stores, providing readily avai...
By Hart
Post-Workout Protein: Enhancing Muscle Recovery, Growth, and Performance
Consuming protein after a workout is crucial for optimizing muscle recovery, repair, and growth by providing essential amino acids to stimulate muscle...
By Alex
Creatine for Football: Enhancing Power, Speed, and Recovery
Creatine can significantly benefit football players by boosting short-burst power, speed, and recovery, crucial for the sport's high-intensity demands...
By Alex
Creatine: How It Makes You Bigger, Its Mechanisms, and Usage
Creatine can make you bigger by initially increasing muscle water retention and, more significantly, by enhancing resistance training performance to p...
By Alex
Magnesium for Bodybuilders: Daily Intake, Benefits, Deficiency, and Supplementation
Bodybuilders often require 350-600 mg of magnesium daily, aligning with or slightly exceeding general RDA, to support intense training, muscle growth,...
By Hart
Glutamine: Its Role in Muscle Growth, Recovery, and Overall Health
Current scientific evidence indicates that glutamine supplementation does not directly increase muscle growth in healthy, well-nourished individuals e...
By Jordan
