As we get older which as Masters Athletes is part of the game, your body loses more and more muscle mass. Initially that decay of the muscle tissue is so slow it is hardly noticed, but year after year that declining process
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Below is a superb study on caffeine use in sport at the elite level, so generally athletes younger than oursleves, under 35. This study is a view since WADA removed caffeine from the controls list way back in 2004.  The figures quoted
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Athletes with a injured tendon (i.e. most Masters Athletes ever!) could recover faster if they combine their rehab and back to sport program with supplements in the form of hydrolysed collagen. That was the result form a small human study, that sports scientists
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As a Masters Athlete trying my best in Track and Field aiming for the championships I’m putting my body through hell daily.  And I always looking for ways I can help my body handles the stresses, and so…. Supplementation with 10 grams
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Supplementing your protein intake isn’t just for the strong weightlifters. It can be a valuable training tool for those exercising and running as well especially for Masters Athletes — if you use it correctly and consume the right kind of protein in
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The ultra dirt-cheap and widely available, simple amino acid glycine may be the ultimate supplement for Masters Athletes as an anti-ageing substance.  It seems from research that glycine is able to reverses the ageing process in connective tissue cells – and who
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Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles published what they believe to be a much easier method of calculating health and fat levels.  No more use of the BMI as standard measure! BMI The BMI has been a stalwart measurement
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Athletes who supplement with aronia – in the form of aronia juice from any supermarket – keeps cholesterol balance and the walls of the blood vessels young as we age. Researchers from Bulgaria at the University of Plovdiv reached this conclusion after
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After just 4 days, an alkaline diet makes athletes sprint up to 2.3 percent faster. An alkaline diet may be an alternative for supplementation with the horrid tasting sodium bicarbonate. For long sprint athletes, supplementation with sodium bicarbonate is an effective way
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