For athletes who participate in resistance training, one common complaint following training is often post-exercise muscle soreness. Both clinically as well as from personal experience, I can tell you that this only gets worse as we age. If you’re looking to combat post-exercise muscle soreness, one options that you may want to consider is supplementing with l-carnitine l-tartrate.

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High-volume training works wonders for some bodybuilders. Devoting 4 to 5 days per week to training, and spending 45 to 75 minutes in each session allows intermediate and advanced trainers to effectively stimulate each body part, while still allowing at least two full days for recovery. This is just about the ceiling that every bodybuilder should utilize when training, in terms of volume. However, there is a time when the bodybuilder needs to increase the volume even more. For times like this, we have the perfect workout for you!

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Numerous studies have shown that cocoa has a protective effect against cardiovascular diseases. The reason for this has now been uncovered by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden. When a group of volunteers devoured a good-sized piece of dark chocolate, it inhibited an enzyme in their bodies that is known to raise blood pressure.

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From fad diets to exercise programs, Americans continue to fight the battle of the bulge. Now they'll have help from recent Tel Aviv University research that has developed a new method to look at how fat cells -- which produce the fat in our bodies -- respond to mechanical loads.

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Researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen, can now unveil the results of the world's largest diet study: If you want to lose weight, you should maintain a diet that is high in proteins with more lean meat, low-fat dairy products and beans and fewer finely refined starch calories such as white bread and white rice. With this diet, most people can also eat until they are full without counting calories and without gaining weight.

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Working out can help you shed pounds -- but that's just the beginning. New research from Tel Aviv University has found that "endurance exercises," like a Central Park jog or a spinning class, can make us look younger. The key, exercise, unlocks the stem cells of our muscles.

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Did you need an alarm clock to wake up this morning? If you did, you probably didn't get enough sleep last night.

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Newswise — The "box squat", a popular training technique for weightlifters, has "limited negative consequences" on squat performance during strength training, reports a study in the December issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy.

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I remember when I saw Ronnie Coleman’s training DVD “Cost of Redemption.” I highly recommend purchasing this DVD if you haven't. It features Ronnie's workouts including 160-pound dumbbell shoulder presses, 800-pound squats, 2,250+ -pound leg presses, 495-pound bench presses, 75-pound alternate curls and more!

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“Training is an exact science.” —Mike Mentzer Mike Mentzer was correct in saying there is an exact science to training. In the January  2009 issue of Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, it was reported that you can take two identical workouts and train with the exact same total work performed, yet have different gains. It has been my experience that many bodybuilders can learn how to get better results by periodizing their workouts. Periodization is simply the organization and planning of training. In sport, this planning is usually based upon achieving maximum physical abilities (strength, speed, power, etc.) for a given competition or period of competitions. For a more in-depth look at how changing your training routine can make a difference, please visit my interview with Eric Broser of MD’s ‘No Juice Bodybuilding’ on the new MD AUDIO ONLINE Page:www.musculardevelopment.com/content/blogcategory/115/181/.

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