Testosterone and Exercise: Unlocking Strength, Speed and Stamina
Testosterone and exercise plays a crucial role in enhancing exercise performance, muscle growth, fat loss, and overall well-being
Category Muscles & Body
Harness the Hormonal Edge: Ignite Your Fat Burn with Catecholamines
To fully utilize fat burn with catecholamines, choose exercise types and routines that maximize their release, such as HIIT, fasted exercise, and strength training with short rest periods.
Adrenaline vs Cortisol: Battle of the Stress Hormones
Adrenaline vs cortisol; Understanding the differences between adrenaline and cortisol is crucial for appreciating how our bodies respond to both immediate challenges and longer-term pressures.
How Exercise Impacts Cortisol Levels: A Closer Look
It is important to know how exercise impacts cortisol levels to have a balanced and healthy body. While its acute rise during exercise is beneficial, prolonged or excessive elevation of cortisol—especially due to overtraining
Adrenaline release and adrenaline metabolism with and after exercise
Adrenaline release in the body starts almost immediately upon initiating a sprint, with noticeable effects occurring within seconds and peaking within a few minutes.
Understanding the role of Adrenaline in the body
The role of adrenaline is multifaceted in nature and is a powerful hormone that are released during exercise.. Its effects on heart rate, blood pressure, energy mobilization, respiratory function, muscle performance, blood flow, psychological state, and thermogenesis collectively enhance physical performance and endurance.
Understanding Tennis Elbow: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, is a painful condition affecting the outer part of the elbow. Despite its name, it is not limited to tennis players; it can affect anyone who engages in activities that involve repetitive arm and wrist motions.
Best time of the day to do exercise for weight-loss
You may wonder if there are any benefits from exercising during early morning hours for weigh-loss or muscle building instead of the evening after work for example, or maybe if there is a difference between afternoon training and evening training.
The three different skeletal-muscle fibers
The amount of thick and thin filaments per unit of cross-sectional area is more or less the same in all types of skeletal muscle fibers. This means that the larger the diameter of the muscle fiber the more thick and thin filaments it will contain working together in parallel to produce force. The result will be an increase in maximum tension and thus greater strength.
The Importance of your gluteus muscles
The glute muscles are one of the biggest and strongest muscles in your whole body. This group of muscles controls the movement and rotation of the hip joint, as well as the extension and abduction of the hip joint. The glutes help us to keep upright and are active when we need to stand up, sit down, walk, climb stairs, run...
What is my Lumbar Spine and where is it located?
The lumbar spine provide stability to your back and spinal column and is the balancing centre of your body. Many ligaments and muscles are attached to the lumbar spine and together they are responsible for basic mobility like walking, sitting, lifting and...
