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Could be but I have no idea; I just stole it from another forum

When I was in the same position (aka, no squat rack and limited weights at home), I was doing weighted lunges with pretty good results. Took a couple of weeks to get used to doing em but they were a nice addition to the workout after that *shrugs*

Alcohol ingestion can lead to HPA activation and subsequent changes in cortisol levels. Search Pubmed for HPA and alcohol and you should come up with a ton of stress and alcohol related articles. As for protein synthesis, the biggest evidence is alcoholic myopathy which involves decreased...

I believe the main difference between Primer/Driver and Prime+/Drive+ is the addition of carbs, vitamins and minerals in the + series to make it more of a meal replacement supplement (glucose for Prime+, complex carbs for Drive+ according to BN). Also, I think that the Anabolic and Advanced...

I personally haven't noticed any ergogenic differences between CEE and normal monohydrate.  Of course, that tidbit of information can be lumped under all of the other anecdotal reports concerning CEE :)

Additionally, the normal conversion rate to EPA/DHA in our systems is already under 10% (have seen varying reports of 1.5-7%).

I basically do what O&G does but I do the regular 2x5RM and then a single set of dropsets of 10-15 for weeks 7&8.

Still using it :) Easy to drop my cash into Bryan's pocket before dropping it into the pockets of folks with more questionable reputations and backgrounds on the net.

Four separate doses would just decrease the chance of saturating the transporter itself and excreting extra creatine. Regardless, in the end, you're still going to be limited by muscle saturation, not transporter saturation.

The normall cellular turnover that you are referring to occurs frequently in cells that are highly mitotic.  Muscle cells are post-mitotic and, as such, don't go through that turnover. Now, that's not to say that skeletal muscle won't go through apoptosis due to other factors (aging, atrophy...

Yea, wet vs. dry feet seems to affect it also. I've seen 20% on my Tanita on one day and 12% the next. Definately much better as a trend thing. When I'm being good about cutting, I usually write down my weight/bf% either on the calendar or on my HST printout that I use to track progression...

While the creatine to creatinine ratio isn't suprising, the fact that it only contained 0.1g of creatine per serving prior to degredation raises an eyebrow or two

Due to the relatively low efficiency of the transdermal matrix, you'd have to slather on quite a bit of creatine to achieve the results that you'd get by just taking 2.5-5g/day. Other products may get away with it due to their constituents requiring much lower dosages. Additionally, that is...

The same could be said for combining alcohol and protein supplements, high protein foods, prohormones, any ergogenic aid, etc... It's definately not something centered solely around creatine :) In general, alcohol is just bad to ingest with anything :D

There are also other papers that state that ascorbic acid inhibits the JNKs and p38s but not the ERKs. There is so much crosstalk between those signal transduction pathways that I'd personally be hardpressed to stop taking VitC merely because I though it inhibited the ERK pathway in skeletal...