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Think Muscle Newsletter #17January 31, 2002
Message from the Editor, Bryan Haycock, MS, CSCSFirst off I need to give a heads up about subscriptions to the newsletter. Our list service provider has been “bouncing” (i.e. removing) a tremendous number of subscribers without their consent. These are NOT people who have asked to be removed. Keep in mind that we haven’t actually had any people who have asked to be removed yet but I have heard about this happening to other more common magazines. ;) So, if you haven’t been receiving the newsletter after signing up, please sign up again. We’ve got a lot of good stuff coming your way. Speaking of good stuff, we’ve got a great issue this month. We’re reintroducing a column called Supplement Fact & Fiction. It is a column I began back when Mesomorphosis was online. I had wanted to begin a supplement review column for some time and now is as good a time as any. Expect some in depth discussion of the merits of all your favorite, and perhaps your least favorite, compounds. We’ve also got an easy read about the 3 basic types of diets. A lot of people ask me which diet is best. I have to tell them that it all depends. To find out more tune in below! It seemed like a good time for another HST Q&A. It appears that HST has now spread all over the net. It’s hard to find a message board that doesn’t have somebody talking about it. Let me give a heart felt thanks to all of you out there who have so generously taken time to answer questions about HST on the boards and shared your results and experiences with others. With the growing interest in Hypertrophy-Specific Training principles I am working hard to provide as much useful info on it as I can until the book is ready, but I still seem to fall behind. Hopefully this issue’s HST Q&A will fill in some gaps for those of you who are using it. We’ve also got a fantastic article by Will Brink, who took a bunch of creatine products and tested them for purity. You will be shocked to read what he found out…but then again, maybe you won’t. Finally, a hardy thanks to all of you who have been inquiring about this new line of supplements I have been working on. I am really excited about the opportunity to be able to produce a line of supplements based on research and not just industry fads. Look forward the first HSN products in the next couple of weeks. Nothing fancy, just effective. A note to those of you who use Netscape, you may have noticed some problems with the page displaying properly. There are some incompatibility issues that we are working on fixing. Sorry for any inconvenience. Until next time… -bryan Supplement Fact and Fiction by Bryan Haycock
In the pursuit
of wealth, many supplement companies make fraudulent claims about their
products. Often these claims are based on misrepresented science,
shoddy science, or no science at all. This column exists to offer the
consumer of sport supplements some protection from fraudulent supplement
claims as well as direction towards those supplements that really do offer
some benefit. The information presented here will be based mainly on
data collected in controlled experimental conditions, when it exists.
Anecdotal evidence will be considered, but not relied upon to support the
manufacturers claims. A Review of Different Types of Popular Diets by Bryan Haycock
At times it
can be confusing to pick a diet. There are many different diets being
marketed at any given time. How is a person to know how they differ and
which one is right for them? Categorizing the diets into groups that share
basic characteristics is a good way to start understanding popular diets. Hypertrophy-Specific Training Q&A by Bryan HaycockRep cadence (tempo) and HST; How does microtrauma actually happen?; Best
way to eat for HST What's Really in Your Supplements? An Update on Creatine by Will BrinkAs some well informed readers might recall, I wrote an expose on the various impurities and contaminants found in certain creatines on the market almost a year ago. The article was called "What's really in your creatine?". The article took a close look at the large variations in the quality of different creatines and killed the long standing myth that "creatine is creatine." I expected the article to have an effect on the creatine market both from a wholesale and a retail perspective, and it did. As I predicted in that article, It also got me into hot water with many companies and individuals who sell less than pure high quality creatine. Full text: http://www.thinkmuscle.com/articles/brink/creatine.htm |
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