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(quadancer @ Jan. 04 2008,21:22)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE"> <div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">What effect does caffeine have on us as bodybuilders, especially during the hours or days post-workout?</div>
Don't know about you, but I don't stray too far from the john!
Coffee may be beneficial, since it's antioxidant, but doesn't have a full spectrum of them:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news....ee.html -
...and we allready eat our broccolli.
Caffeine alone:
http://coffeetea.about.com/cs/caffeine/a/caffeinefacts.htm
...hehe, even I don't have enough time or mind right now to study all this. Edit: Well, my lady has a chick flick on so I'm on a roll...
It's possible that for the reasons in the article above (the half-life of caffeine) that all the beneficial sleep stages may not be occurring, regardless of the hours in the sack. As we know, GH secretion happens in the deep stages and is when we grow.
<div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE"> A study by Van Cauter, Leproult, and Plat [6] used 149 healthy men as subjects ages 16 to 83. Blood samples were taken for growth hormone measurement every 15 to 30 minutes for 24 hours. At night subjects were allowed to sleep for 8 hours and all-night polygraphic sleep recordings were obtained. The results showed that subjects with high SWS (average SWS percentage of 24%) also had high growth hormone secretion, an average of 275µg. Subjects with low SWS (average SWS percentage of 9%) also had low growth hormone secretion, an average of 150µg.
[edit] Anabolic/catabolic cycle
Non-REM sleep may be an anabolic state marked by physiological processes of growth and rejuvenation of the organism's immune, nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems (but see above). Wakefulness may perhaps be viewed as a cyclical, temporary, hyperactive catabolic state during which the organism acquires nourishment and procreates.</div></div>
What is SWS ?