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What Does Creatine Do?

Alex Manson — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:41:05 +0000

There are several benefits of Creatine. Creatine boosts anaerobic energy and provides instant energy to the body. It improves muscle strength and makes the muscle suitable for high-intensity, short duration exertion like weightlifting or sprinting. It is also found to speed up the recovery of energy. It delays fatigue significantly. It promotes lean-muscle mass and reduces muscle wasting in post-surgical patients. It is also believed to help he Click to read more...

Creating Muscle Anabolism For Muscle Growth

Alex Manson — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:28:53 +0000

Building muscle in only possible if your body is in the correct anabolic balance to allow muscle growth to take place. Intensive exercise is clearly an important part of the muscle building process but achieving the maximum muscle mass depends on putting the building blocks in place. This is achieved through sound nutritional practices so you need to be aware of the following anabolic enhancing principles: Protein is the basic raw material neede Click to read more...

Steroids And Muscle Growth

Alex Manson — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:45:10 +0000

You’ve been going to the gym everyday and working your butt off. You drink protein shakes, eat loads of chicken, and see some muscle gain and you are happy. Then you notice that the new guy at gym is getting big real fast. He only started 3 months ago and he’s putting on size like there’s no tomorrow. Why is that? Obviously he’s on roids and you are starting to wonder whether you should chuck in the towel or jump on the tr Click to read more...

Bodybuilding Supplements

Alex Manson — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 05:18:05 +0000

To supplement or not to supplement? That’s the question on more bodybuilder’s lips than ever before. Are they safe? What works and what doesn’t? Lets have a look at the basics. There are various reasons why athletes may be interested in supplementation. Concern about getting adequate nutrients from our food supply. Suspicion of pharmaceuticals. Belief that diet alone will not achieve optimal nutrition. Supplements incl Click to read more...

The Benefits of Creatine

Alex Manson — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:39:31 +0000

Let’s Talk About Creatine Benefits Creatine is a naturally formed amino acid that is found in the human body, especially around the skeletal muscle. The human body generates creatine naturally, partly from the diet we take and partly on its own. A healthy person has about 120g of creatine, most of it being in the form of a compound called PCr. The body can store a maximum creatine quantity of 0.3 g per one kilogram of body weight. The body Click to read more...

History of Anabolic Steroid

Alex Manson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:52:49 +0000

Tracing the History of Anabolic Steroid Surprising it may seem, but tracing history of anabolic steroid will reveal that there was prevalence of its use among professional athletes in ancient Greece. In those times, athletes used natural steroidal substances in order to enhance androgenic and anabolic growth in the body. photo credit: e-MagineArt.com As the history of anabolic steroid unfolds, one would find that in early 1930s, German scientist Click to read more...

Acetyl L-Carnitine Benefits

Alex Manson — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:59:20 +0000

Acetyl L-carnitine might sound like something far removed from our daily concerns, but it’s not. Given how many of us are overweight these days, this derivative of lysine and methionine amino acids is very important indeed. That’s because it’s a recommended supplement for fatty acid oxidation, and that can help people who consume it burn unwanted body fat. What L-Carnitine does is act the vehicles that zoom down our freeways ta Click to read more...