The decision to use protein supplements is based more on marketing claims than anything else. They offer few real performance benefits that an athlete’s normal diet isn’t already delivering.
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Protein-based health products have been criticised for inappropriate marketing but are they even worth the money?
People have used bodybuilding to improve their physical performance for at least 1,500 years. The first recorded example was the sixth-century wrestler, Milo of Croton, in southern Italy. Milo reportedly…
Whether an athlete has endured the repeated joint stresses of a marathon run, or the relentless battery of hits during a football match, many will opt for a post-activity polar plunge into an ice-cold…
Steroids are easy to scapegoat. Users are viewed as aggressive, violent and mentally unstable, able to snap at any moment and cause great harm to the people around them. Ostensibly, it is this perception…
Sometimes in research the answer is right under your nose. In our case, we spent nearly two decades developing exotic materials as artificial muscles – to now show in a paper published in Science today…
“Muscle memory” is a frequently used term to describe the learning of motor skills, be they sport, music, or everyday activity. But interestingly, despite the widespread usage of the term, controversy…
Cyclists in this year’s Tour de France – currently underway – will cover more than 3,300km over 21 stages in 23 days. Of course, due to the extreme physical exertion required to do this at speed, many…
Fossilised soft tissues, such as skin and muscle, are exceptionally hard to come by. When you think the chances of an animal being fossilised is less than one in a million - and these usually have only…
Just on a year ago my colleagues and I announced our discovery that carbon nanotube yarns could be made to twist and rotate at great speeds when electrically stimulated. In this way we had created “artificial…
A specific gene has been discovered to regulate muscle size in a new study. Genetically modified mice missing the Grb10 protein…
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Ken Nosaka is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of Exercise and Sports Science, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Exercise Physiology Across the Lifespan, Deakin University
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Professor of Biomechanics, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Sport, Health & Exercise Science, University of Stirling
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Adjunct Professor of Physical Therapy, University of Dayton
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Senior Scientist Team Lead Nutrition Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Team Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor in Anatomy and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University Australia
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Professor of Exercise and Ageing, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Senior Professor, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong
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Professor in Neuromuscular Physiology and Head of Sport Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
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Head of Sport Science, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, Durham University
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Professor of Physics, University of Lynchburg
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Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology, University of East Anglia
