Muscle Gain

Simply put, pyruvate is formed during the metabolism, or digestion, of sugars and starches. It’s a key compound that jump-starts the...

The authors suggest that factors other than nutrition must explain the differences between hard and easy gainers. On the other hand,...

Need to recover more quickly? Then you’d better add proteases to your pillbox. Proteases such as bromelain, derived from pineapple, apparently...

One popular snack food can be a godsend for bodybuilders. I’m talking about nuts, which are calorie dense and loaded with...

If you change the distribution of your macronutrients to fewer carbs, you can radically change the look of your physique without...

Several studies have found that athletes who severely restrict carb intake suffer a loss of training intensity. On the other hand,...

Taking the protein before and after training blocked the response of both active and total testosterone to the exercise, much the...

It turned out that taking the carb supplement didn’t affect exercise performance, perhaps because the volume of training—five sets of squats—wasn’t...

The basic function of creatine is to donate a phosphate molecule that reconstitutes depleted stores of adenosine triphosphate in muscle.

A major reason that steroid-induced gains appear to evaporate when the drugs are stopped is that many athletes either lay off...

If you’re willing to sacrifice some gains in lean mass so that you don’t gain any fat, however, go for the...

Just how bad gyno can get depends on genetic factors, such as the number of estrogen receptors in a man’s breasts...

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard this line while working at GNC: “I just can’t seem to put on...

Amino acids are the building blocks of muscle tissue, so it only makes sense that liberal use of a branched-chain-amino-acid supplement...

If you know something about muscle function, you realize that taking a couple of supplements together can help create exceptional anabolism—but...