by admin | Oct 31, 2019 | Exercise science
What determines how much muscle will you gain / maintain? A lot of factors come into play. 1)The natural level of testosterone a person has. Testosterone is without question strongly related to muscular size. One of the more relevant studies is one published in...
by admin | Sep 26, 2019 | Exercise science
The FTO gene or ‘fat mass and obesity-associated gene’ is associated with increased obesity in animals and humans. A 2007 study of 38,759 Europeans examined how variants of the FTO gene affects human obesity. It...
by admin | May 23, 2019 | Exercise science
Essentially yes and to understand this we need to take to take a look at our anatomy. Skeletal muscle is made up of bundles of muscle fibres called myocytes which contain many myofibrils. Myofibrils are strands of proteins (actin and myosin) that can grab on to each...
by admin | Feb 10, 2019 | Exercise science
The answer is NO. Muscle soreness is purely an indicator of muscle fibre damage. However, muscle fibre damage doesn not mean the session was good nor productive. It means just that. What is an indicator a good session? Well if we are taking about muscle growth, there...
by admin | Feb 1, 2019 | Exercise science
If we know that losing weight is all about being in a caloric deficit, then why is exercising so important? Is it because it burns calories? Well that would be a very inefficient way of weight management, being that for half of a chocolate you would have to run for an...
by admin | Jan 16, 2019 | Exercise science
If you are serious about your training or you just want to do things property, in the most efficient and healthiest way possible, you should know this. Our bodies have a couple of energy systems at their disposal, depending on the type of training they are being...
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