Tag Archives: ergogenics

• Recovery Drink

  Posted on March 4, 2011 by FitYoginiRunner in Performance

  Share Everybody who does long, but especially intense, workouts needs a recovery drink.  I didn’t think this was true when I started doing P90X – I had read advice to runners that if you run less than an hour, water is all you need. The idea behind the advice is that workouts shorter than that [...]

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• Trail run report: I need to figure out a better hydration/carb strategy for my race

  Posted on September 6, 2010 by FitYoginiRunner in My fitness journey, Performance

  Share Yesterday’s long run was 9.4 miles, just like last week, but instead of running trail 2A+2C, I just ran 2B. And by run, I mean run/walk up 4.7 miles, jog down most of the way pretty slowly, and slow down to a death march the last couple of miles. I have never been so [...]

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• Effects of Quercetin and EGCG on Mitocohondrial Biogenesis and Immunity

  Posted on June 6, 2010 by FitYoginiRunner in Research paper reviews

  Share This paper is written by: David C. Nieman, Dru A. Henson, K. R. Maxwell, Ashley S. Williams, Steven R. McAnulty, Fuxia Jin, Andrew Shanely, and Thomas C. Lines. All the authors are at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, although some are in the exercise department and others in the biology department. The paper [...]

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• The Dietary Flavonoid Quercetin Increases VO2max and Endurance Capacity

  Posted on May 15, 2010 by FitYoginiRunner in Research paper reviews

  Share This article, published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism in issue 20 (pages 56-62) of 2010, looks at whether supplementing with quercetin would improve the aerobic capacity (i. e. ability to breathe) and delay fatigue (getting tired) during long exercise sessions of healthy, but untrained, people. It was written by [...]

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• FRS

  Posted on May 13, 2010 by FitYoginiRunner in Research paper reviews

  Share In honor of National Employee Health Month, Avago is holding a 5K next Wednesday. I signed up and yesterday as I was picking up my bib, I noticed little red packages of something called FRS on the counter. I asked about it, and the wellness center director said that she was sent the sample [...]

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