Posted by admin on 4th July 2008
Given that your body is approx 70 percent water, it is not surprising that dehydration would have an impact on your performance. Recent research has indicated that dehydration reduces muscular power and increases the perception of fatigue. The researchers noted that dehydration (3%) in the heat, reduced lower body power by up to 19%. So, if your training in the heat, make sure that you are well hydrated.
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Posted by admin on 3rd July 2008
If you want to get the most out of your training, it is important to ensure that you program adequate rest into your weight training programs. Adequate recovery is vitally important if you want to increase your size and strength. If you don’t recover properly, protein synthesis If you want to get the most out of your training, it is important to ensure that you program adequate rest into your weight training programs. Adequate recovery is vitally important if you want to increase your size and strength. If you don’t recover properly, protein synthesis suffers (you don’t get as big and strong) and you increase your risk of injury.
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Posted by admin on 1st July 2008
Whether you want to build size and/or strength, you should be eating a complete protein source at every meal. A complete protein is one that has the complete spectrum of essential amino acids. This generally means animal protein.
To get the same amino acids from vegetable proteins requires you to correctly combine two or more protein sources. An example of a combination would be brown rice and kidney beans. I am not saying that you can’t get your protein requirements as a vegetarian, I think it is just a little harder to do.
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