Making weight takes time and effort–but if you exercise in shorts and a t-shirt (or without the t-shirt) at or below a freezing temperature (0 °C = 32 °F) you can do it quicker and easier than if you’d exercised within human thermoneutral zone (for people of normal weight it starts at 21 °C and […]
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by Thomas Kurz There are many nutrition systems, all offering more or less conflicting advice to athletes. Some of these are FDA Food Pyramid, Zone, Optimal Nutrition, Paleolithic Nutrition, Primal Eating, Chinese Medicine Dietary System, and Vegetarian Nutrition System. How can you tell the value of a nutrition system? How can you tell which is
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by Thomas Kurz Question: I train a young athlete who is very strong yet has a hard time gaining muscle mass, which he needs for his sport. He does not tolerate protein powder very well, so I have considered advising him to take an amino acid supplement, specifically Master Amino Acid Pattern. I had colleagues
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