Jul 8, 2011

Jul 8, 2011 Back when I was in high-school, almost every magazine had an advertisement for a music club of some kind (Columbia House was the most popular). This was the premise: You pay a penny (.01c), and you get to choose 12 albums from a list – after which, you got a CD every month of their choosing, unless you declined it or canceled the membership....

Jul 6, 2011

Jul 6, 2011 Having spent a few very good years as head rugby coach at a federal military college (with a national DI ranking of 13), I have some strong opinions on endurance training for athletes. In short, you need to have just enough endurance to play your sport at (as near) full speed as possible for the duration of a game or match. That’s it. As a...

Jun 9, 2011

What happens when you take 74 NCAA Division III football players and give them either A.) a protein shake containing whey, B.) a protein shake containing casein, or C.) a protein shake made up of whey plus casein? Pretty much the same thing it turns out. Since these guys were all training as hard as possible (trying to get a starting job on the team,...

May 13, 2011

May 13, 2011 Supplements containing HICA, a metabolite of the amino acid Leucine, hitting the supplement market recently. I hadn’t heard of the compound until a Chinese supplier dropped me an email offering it for sale and touting it as a highly potent anabolic. A quick online search brought me to Ergo-Log, and after reading the article, I downloaded the...

Nov 14, 2010

Nov 14, 2010 Recently, I’ve been doing a bit of research into some forgotten nutritional supplements; the ones that never quite panned out in the real world, but look good on paper. A study published in 2005 by researchers at the University of Tennessee showed that 10g of calcium pyruvate did not significantly affect body composition or exercise...