Green Tea Increases Exercise Performance

As most of our customers know, green tea is practically a miracle ingredient. Not only is it known for being heart healthy and being a fantastic antioxidant, studies also show that it can help burn fat and remover inches from around the waist. Well now there is even evidence that it enhances performance!

A recent study in the scientific journal Medecine & Science in Sports and Exercise shows that green tea increases VO2 Max. VO2 Max is the measurement of the muscle’s ability to process oxygen and is a good indicator of how long a person can sustain high-intensity exercise performance. So it looks like green tea ticks all of the boxes for athletes and bodybuilders looking to stay lean and improve performance.

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The Arnold Sports Festival 16th March 2010

Well, the 2010 Arnold Sports Festival is now over and it was another good year. Dubbed “The Largest Multi-Sport Event in the Nation”, this year there were 700 booths displaying and selling sports equipment, clothing and nutritional supplements to the 170,000 attendees.

It did seem bigger than ever this year and the results of the Arnold Classic Bodybuilding Show were more surprising than ever! The man who won bodybuilding’s biggest show – The Mr Olympia – in 2008 came 4^th this year – needless to say, Dexter Jackson was very disappointed! Surprisingly, last year’s winner, Kai Greene came back and won it again. Second place man Phil Health was another shocker, coming in second, placing ahead of Branch Warren, who has regularly beaten Heath in recent shows. This trophy-swapping that has been occurring at the two big bodybuilding shows in the last few years has brought some excitement back to the sport and can only be good for bodybuilding.

There weren’t as many surprises in the Strongman Classic in which Derek Poundstone took the prize, although many of the top strongmen in the world didn’t attend.

As usual, the Saturday evening party was a late-night affair at which you could find virtually every “big player” in the bodybuilding and supplement industry – lots of fun had by all.

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Push Ups for Pecs, Tris & Abs

That’s right, abs too! As we all know, push ups are an excellent exercise that you can do just about anywhere. They work the chest and triceps and to a lesser extent, the shoulders. Put your feet up on an exercise ball or a chair and you can do inclines to focus more on the upper chest. Move your hands closer together and you have yourself a very challenging triceps exercise. But what most people don’t realize is that they work the abs also.

You see, the abs are required to keep the body stabilized when you assume the push up position and the movement puts extra stress on the muscle as you complete each rep. Many cutting-edge exercise physiologists and strength coaches are now recommending that the most effective way to work the abs is using movements that don’t involve too much movement of the abs like crunches but to instead use movements like “the plank”, which stimulate the abdominal muscles without contracting them. It’s also becoming clear that crunches and sit ups may increase the risk of back problems.

You can confirm this effect of push ups if you haven’t done them in a while – do about 4 sets to failure with a minute or two between sets and the next day your abs will most likely feel a bit sore (depending upon what level of conditioning you’re in). So if you haven’t been doing push ups as part of your chest routine, you now have one more reason to add them in!

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Grenade – State Of The Art Weight Management System.

The Bomb has landed. Grenade has finally made it to Britain! This potent fat-burner delivers a big does of only the highest quality and highest potency ingredients to support increased metabolic rate and keep your hunger cravings at a minimum so that you get the results you want! With a full half of a gram of green tea containing active polyphenols, a huge 420 milligrams of bitter orange peel (also known as Citrus Aurantium), along with a big dose of cayenne, this product will deliver explosive results as part of your diet and exercise plan. So go ahead and order your grenade today if you want a fat-torching blast!

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Multi-Vitamins

A controversial topic among health professionals is multivitamin / mineral use. The purists (mostly tree-huggers) say that we can get all of the nutrition we need from food. This is obviously true if we eat a healthy, well-planned, varied diet that is very high in fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, this kind of diet is about as common as sightings of dodo birds and unicorns – let’s face it, most people just don’t know enough or care enough to adopt this type of diet! For these people, it makes perfect sense to take a “multi” to avoid deficiencies of any of the essential nutrients. However, be aware that taking a multi definitely cannot provide the health benefits available from the hundreds of other healthy components of good foods.

The arguments for taking a multi are many. Even people who have a reasonably good diet could possibly benefit from a multi – just as a nutritional insurance policy. Remember, many countries like the USA and Canada add vitamin D, iron, folate, iodine and other nutrients to various foods and this has been proven to effectively minimize birth defects and other diseases that could result from deficiencies. A Harvard Medical School survey showed that health professionals, especially those who know the most about supplements, are big users. In fact, 81 percent of them had used a vitamin, mineral or fish oil supplement in the previous week.

Now for the recent research – beyond just using a multi for nutritional “insurance”, research suggests that they may decrease appetite and are associated with lower body weight, body fat and higher energy expenditure. It turns out that obese subjects who took supplements experienced all of these advantages and when obese subjects who didn’t take supplements were given them, they had lower appetite scores than the group who receive the inactive placebo pill.

So the take-home message here is that unless your diet is very good and includes a large variety of foods, you could likely benefit from a multi but the best advice is to try to optimize your diet, as this will have the most beneficial effects up your health. Additionally, taking a multi may decrease appetite and decrease fat mass and body weight. You will find pretty every brand will do a multi, here are a few suggestions as to some that I find to be very good. PHD – Catalyst, Reflex – Nexgen, Animal – Animal Pak, MuscleTech – Vitakic

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