Responders or Non-Responders?

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Research on muscle building report a wide range of responders. There are those who gain virtually no muscle or strength, and there are those who have very impressive gains. If the weight training program was the same then the people doing the training must be different.

The response you will get from a weight training program is dependent upon your anabolic sensitivity. A number of factors go into assessing your anabolic sensitivity including age, training status, type of training, genetic predisposition, somatotype.

All of these factors collectively come together as a way of explaining where you land on the Anabolic Continuum.

In today’s lesson we’ll discuss what a confounding variable is, and explain that one of the biggest confounding variables in muscle building research is the anabolic sensitivity of each subject. Until researchers start categorizing where their subjects are on the Anabolic Continuum they will continue to have inconclusive results.

John

 

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Dietary supplement ingredients range from plant extracts, to amino acids and hormones. Depending on the country you live in you maybe have access to any and all of the following types of supplements:

Herbal Extracts

Animal extracts

Hormones and hormonal extracts

Amino acids

Synthetic derivatives of plant extracts

Synthetic derivatives of hormones

Supplement ingredients are a highly processed items that bear little or no resemblance to the original material that is used to synthesize them.

An ingredient in chosen for a product based on cost, dose, claims that can be made using it, popularity (think hoodia or acai), and potential risk (think ephedra).

The actual effect the ingredient has is only one of many factors that determine if an ingredient will be used in a new supplement product.

In this podcast we’ll discuss how supplement manufacturers put a product together and specifically how ingredients are chosen.

John

 

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The packaging makes a big difference

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Dietary supplements are a big industry now and the packaging reflects it. It used to be that you could fill plain white bottles with your magic powder X and print up a basic white paper label and you were in business…not any more.

Supplement packaging has become big business with the regular use of mirror and rainbow holographic labelling, new and innovative bottle and box designs, special box formation and inserts and custom shapes and sizes.

Packaging is the most important point of contact before you make a purchase, so the package better be good.

In this podcast we’ll discuss some of the issues and main points a supplement company must consider when making the packaging for a product.

John

 

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Belly fat is the same as the rest of your body fat

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The fat that we store around our abdomen (belly) is the same as the fat that we store every where else on our bodies but people seem to think this fat has a personality and is somewhat stubborn. The reality is that we just accumulate more fat in this area and therefore it takes longer to burn enough of it off to see the underlying muscles.

In today’s podcast we discuss the perception that belly fat is somehow stubborn and different from other kinds of fat. We also discuss how some people make the mistake of assuming that some amount of fat is actually loose skin.

John

 

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