Recent content by BigTex

Sorry, I have to critique, but this information for a bodybuilder is kind of useless. These fitness influencers know very little about what is good or not good for bodybuilders. Most of the recovery methods described—dynamic stretching, progressive muscle relaxation, contrast therapy, foam...

Louie Simmons criticized high-rep, slow training (similar to HIT), stating that "the better you are with reps, the worse you are with a single" and that slow training dissipates energy, leading to a loss of explosiveness. Exactly! My deadlift went up from the low 700's to an all-time of 800 by...

My lifts started really taking off after I spent some time talking to Fred Hatfield about Compensatory Acceleration Training (CAT). This is a method where you intentionally try to accelerate the bar as hard as possible through the entire range of motion, even when the load is heavy. It was...

I spent years in martial arts training and have been in more real fights than I can remember. If all is equal, a big guy will always beat a smaller guy. If all things are equal, a much more muscular guy will beat one who is not. But just because you are a bodybuilder does not mean you have a...

I actually ran into Lee Haney when I worked in LA back in 1999. He was standing in line right next to us to get into a Chinese restaurant. Amazing guy!

Since I was actually a world-ranked powerlifter in the 275's and 308's I can tell you right off that static exercises like planks have no place in powerlifting. There is very little direct evidence that static exercises like planks transfer meaningfully to heavy full-ROM lifts like squats and...

Looks good in animal research, but I got nothing from it when I used it. Never heard anything good about it. At one time, there was a modified version of frag, AOD-9604 = a stabilized analog of this fragment. The clinical testing done was unimpressive, and it was eventually abandoned because...

HGH & Blood Sugar Understanding how exogenous Human Growth Hormone (HGH) interacts with blood glucose is critical if you want to optimize a hormone protocol. The relationship is more nuanced than most people realize, and misunderstanding it can cost you results. When people talk about HGH and...

Good stuff here! Important.....in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), neuroplasticity is severely impaired: amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques and tau tangles disrupt synaptic function, trigger chronic inflammation and oxidative stress, reduce brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling, and cause...

I saw today that Amino Asylum was operating under different names now. I guess they didn't learn after being raided. I stuck with UG, private boards and did just fine. I also sold most of the peptides I sold for $10 or less per vial. Hell, when I got them for around $1 a vial per 100 why...

I started sourcing peptide way back when they 1st started being used. I got out because I got tired of looking over my shoulder all the time. I have said many times, this stuff need to remain underground. Yet I saw more and more peptide dealers advertising openly at BB and powerlifting meets...

Looks at this statement that 1st appeared on their web site: The Smartest Exit in the Gray Market Let’s be direct about what likely happened here, because the industry commentary is dancing around it. Peptide Sciences built a business that, by all available e-commerce data, generated revenue...

Here are the glades of osteoarthritis: Kellgren-Lawrence Grading Scale for Knee Osteoarthritis Grade 0: No radiographic features of osteoarthritis. Joint space is normal, with no osteophytes or sclerosis. Grade 1: Doubtful joint space narrowing and possible osteophytic lipping (bone spurs)...

Being that exercise science is my profession, I do have to dispute the statement that DOMS s caused by microscopic muscle damage, is simply not really true. The underlying mechanism of DOMS is still genuinely not fully resolved scientifically. Microscopic muscle damage is just one of many...

Here is a good research study on this same subject: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsc.12074 Implications: The findings suggest that using cold water immersion after resistance training workouts may interfere with or blunt the muscle growth response typically seen with...