Mass Articles
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Does Caffeine’s Ergogenic Effect Depend on the Time of Day?
If you’ve ever dared to walk into a gym at 5:30pm, you know that a lot of people like to exercise after work. Caffeine is ubiquitous in pre-workout supplement formulations, which begs the question: is pre-workout caffeine effective in both the morning and the evening? A new study investigates.
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Do Non-Responders Need More Volume?
Not everyone responds the same way to resistance training. While some people were just dealt a bad hand in terms of genetics, many poor responders just need to alter their approach to training. Is increasing volume their answer?
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Should You Limit Sugar Alcohols?
This article discusses how ingesting foods containing sugar alcohols impacts the gastrointestinal (GI) system.
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Split vs Full-Body Training
This guide provides an overview of how to construct and implement split- and full-body training programs in various scenarios.
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Is Saturated Fat Inherently Fattening?
For decades, saturated fat was widely blamed for a dramatic rise in rates of obesity and heart disease. In recent years, that narrative has been challenged by proponents of increasingly popular ketogenic and carnivorous diets. Is saturated fat inherently more fattening than other fat sources?
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Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?
Breakfast is often called the most important meal of the day. Will skipping breakfast negatively impact afternoon gym performance? A new study investigates.
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Retraction Notice: A Reminder to Keep the Evidence in Evidence-Based Fitness
Over 5 million people heard about a study reporting beneficial effects of cold water immersion and cold showers on fat loss and psychological outcomes. That paper has been retracted, but the damage has been done.
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Red Meat: Junk Food or Superfood?
As the carnivore diet and other carnivore-adjacent, meat-forward diets grow in popularity, proponents of these diets face an uphill battle – namely, that many of their key dietary recommendations directly contradict decades worth of nutritional science and evidence-based nutrition guidelines.
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What’s Up With These New Weight Loss Drugs?
There are new weight loss drugs on the market, and they appear to work. This Research Brief offers a concise overview of what they do, how they work, and how they fit within the broader fitness landscape.
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When and How to Increase Training Frequency
Higher frequency training leads to greater muscle growth and strength gains than lower frequencies when higher frequency is coupled with more volume. This article evaluates a new study on the topic and provides practical examples of when and how to add frequency.