Choline supplementation appears to boost brain function

Choline is an essential nutrient that can increase both muscle strength and brain function.

That’s because one of the main roles that choline plays is in the formation of the critical neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is an important chemical for nerve signals, including those that signal muscles to contract. By providing your nervous system with more acetycholine you can produce stronger muscle contractions. It can also help to enhance cognitive function, boost memory and increase mental focus during workouts.

A recent study from the University of Granada in Spain confirms the benefits of choline on brain function.

Researchers supplemented the diet of healthy adult rats with choline for 12 weeks. They reported in the journal Behavioral Brain Research that compared to the animals not receiving any supplemental choline, the rats consuming extra choline had better attention and learned new tasks faster.

 

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Jim's take-home points:

Choline is a supplement that can be highly beneficial for your mental acuity throughout the day, which can enhance your performance on the job or in the classroom. Plus, it can help you remember where you left your gym bag. This is just one reason why I included AlphaSize alpha-GPC (alpha-glyceryl phosphoryl choline) in my Pre JYM pre workout formula. You will notice the word choline at the end of this ingredient's name. That's because alpha-GPC is a specialized phospholipid that supplies choline. in fact, getting choline in this form appears to be superior than taking regular choline. That's because this form of choline is taken up by the brain better than standard choline. That means that you can take far less alpha-GPC and get more choline into the brain, where it needs to be to provide its benefits. The alpha-GPC in pre JYM will help to boost your focus in the gym, your mind muscle connection, your strength and power, your muscle endurance, and your growth hormone levels. These benefits of alpha-GPC are all supported with clinical research studies and with data from in the gym. Plus, the alpha-GPC in Pre JYM makes this product a pre workout supplements that not only delivers benefits to your workouts and your physique, but also enhances your brain function and quality of life throughout the day.

If you want to take additional choline, go with about 500-1500 mg of choline from sources such as choline bitartrate, choline chloride, or choline dihydrogen citrate per day with meals in one or two divided doses.

Pre-JYM is a brand new pre workout supplement introduced by the well-known and respected fitness enthusiast Dr. Jim Stoppani. When a guy has as much popularity and credibility as him, you expect great products to be released, however there is always the chance of getting a sub-par Jymsupplements.







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Use Smith Machine Bench Press Throw to build muscle power

Building muscle power is important regardless of whether your goal is to develop more athleticism, increase muscle strength, build muscle mass, or even drop body fat.

In other words, everyone should be incorporating power exercises into their workouts. Power exercises can be any exercise done with light weight and fast reps. Although multijoint exercises such as the squat, row, or bench press work best, single-joint exercises, such as the barbell curl are also effective, especially for muscle groups that do not have many multijoint exercises, such as biceps and calves. Doing the reps as quickly as possible utilizes more of the fast-twitch muscle fibers. These are the muscle fibers that grow the biggest, the strongest, and the fastest. These muscle fibers also burn the most calories, which is why doing power exercises are also effective for fat loss.

  
One of the best exercises for building upper body power is the Smith machine bench press throw.

 To do the Smith machine bench press throw, place a flat bench in the middle of a Smith machine. Load light weight onto the bar. I'll get into precisely how much weight in a moment. Position yourself on the flat bench so that the bar is above your lower chest when you bring the bar down to your chest. It will take some trial and error to figure out how far to put the bench in and how high to scoot up on the bench to find this sweet spot where the bar is just below your nipples in the bottom position. Grab the bar with the same grip you nornally use on the bench press. This should be a bit wider than shoulder width. Of course, you can also do this exercise to build more triceps power. In that case you would use a shoulder-width grip to do a close-grip Smith machine bench press throw. Once you have your grip set, unlatch the safety hooks to free the bar and hold it over your chest with arms fully extended but elbows not locked out. Lower the bar down to your chest and press the bar up as explosively as possible. You literally want to throw the bar as high as you can in the Smith machine as you press the bar up. Catch the bar as it comes back down lowering it to your chest again and proceed right into the next rep. Never catch the bar with straight arms and try to stop the downward momentum if the bar. This will put too much stress on the wrists and elbows and can lead to an injury. Always absorb the energy of the bar by guiding it down to your chest.

You can see why you would never want to do this with a regular barbell.

The guide posts of the Smith machine keep the bar on the same path so that you know precisely where it will be as it comes back down. Of course, it still may take you some time to get used to catching the bar. So start with a VERY light weight until you are comfortable throwing and catching the bar.


 If you are interested in building new and strong muscles, then you should join the MED training program by Jim Stoppani. With this program, you will be rewarded by lots of new muscles.

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Build new muscles by joining med training

Some form of exercise or workout is necessary for all nowadays. Men are giving more focus towards building muscles and looks smart than ever before.  They are following many tips and techniques to build strong muscles. Some get failure due to the wrong guidance and workout in gym for long hours. If you want to choose a right path for the development of muscles, then go for MED training program. It is a muscle training program organized by ‘Jim Stoppani’ for the best development of muscles. Men can join this training program for building new muscles by maintaining previous ones. He will not make use of any exhaustive methods for building great muscles.

MED training basically involves following three steps:-

• Micro-loading: - M basically stands for micro-loading in MED. To increase the weight of the working-sets by possibly small increments is the whole process of micro-loading. You must change the weight each week that you are using on a daily basis. You can replace the weight by smallest possible amount with micro-loading.

• Extended sets – E stands for extended set in MED. It involves a routine exercise until a muscle failure occurs and switching off to other exercise.

• Drop sets- Intensity of training can be increased with the help of drop-sets.

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Know About Med Training Research Updates

If you’ve followed my shoulder training advice then you should be well accustomed to doing upright rows using a much wider-than shoulder-width grip on the bar.

This is the same for Smith machine upright rows, whether done with two arms at a time or one. The reason is because doing them with a wider grip allows the elbows to lift out to the sides in a similar manner to lateral raises. But the difference is that because you are pulling the weight up, you can use more weight to place more overload on the middle deltoid head for greater muscle growth. And although you all have felt and seen the reward from doing upright rows this way, I’ll still mention a new study that supports this method of upright rows.

Researchers from the University of Memphis, yes in Tennessee, had trained subjects perform the upright row with a close grip (half of shoulder width), a shoulder-width grip, and a two times wider than shoulder-width grip on the bar.

They measured muscle activity of the front, middle and rear deltoids, as well as the upper and middle traps, and biceps during upright rows.

They reported in a 2013 issue of the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research that when the subjects performed the upright row using the two times shoulder-width grip, the muscle activity of both the middle deltoid and even the rear deltoid increased by over 20% compared to using the close grip.

They also reported that the wider grip increased muscle activity of the upper traps, while decreasing muscle activity of the biceps.

Jim’s take-home point:
As you should already be doing, this study confirms that doing the upright row, whether with a standard barbell or in a Smith machine, with a wider than shoulder-width grip increases muscle activity of the middle deltoids. It also increases muscle activity of the traps, which is somewhat surprising. But also surprising is the fact that the wide-grip upright row also increased muscle activity of the rear (posterior) deltoid head. So use the upright row in this manner for better development of both the middle and rear delts, as well as the traps.

Jim Stoppani provides the best services of the MED Training programs; Nutrition & Supplementation.

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Greatest Med Training Program and Updated Research

There’s no doubting the fact that the more muscle you build the easier it is to get lean.

No, I’m not saying that everyone with a lot of muscle mass is shredded. However, if the same person gains 20 pounds of muscle, it is generally easier for them to get lean than before they built that extra muscle. For decades it was assumed that this was due to the fact that muscle burns more calories than an equivalent amount of body fat. And while that is true, the difference is not significant enough to really make a huge difference in fat loss.

While there are many reasons why more muscle means less fat, one plausible mechanisms has to do with the hormone leptin.

Leptin is a hormone released by fat cells that increases metabolic rate and decreases hunger. So you burn more calories yet consume fewer. Most people would assume that the leaner you get the more leptin you would release. Yet a recent 12-week study from Spain combining weight lifting and aerobic exercise found that as you lose body fat your leptin levels decrease. This seems counterintuitive, or at least counterproductive to continued fat loss. However, an earlier study from the same Spanish researchers shows why muscle growth is so important for continued fat loss. And it also shows why combining weight lifting with cardio is the best way to keep fat loss going as compared to cardio alone. 

The Spanish researchers reported that in the dominant arm of male pro tennis players, which had 15% more muscle mass than the opposite arm, they also had higher levels of leptin receptors.

Jim’s take-home point:

Having more leptin receptors means that bigger muscles would have a higher sensitivity to leptin. This means that you likely would get a bigger spike in metabolic rate despite having lower levels of leptin. And this may be one of the reasons why building bigger muscles can make getting leaner all the easier. It also highlights the fact that the best way to lose body fat and to continue losing body fat over the long term is with a program that combines weight training and cardio. I can’t tell you how many times people contact me and ask, “If I want to focus on fat loss should I just do cardio and then lift weights after I lose the fat, or is it OK to also lift weights while trying to lose fat?” My answer is of course that you definitely want to do both for the best fat loss. And this research shows one reason why lifting weights and doing cardio is superior for fat loss than just doing cardio alone. Since cardio doesn’t build muscle, but will decrease body fat, it may lower leptin levels, but without an increase in muscle size, may not increase leptin sensitivity enough to offset the lower leptin levels.

Jim Stoppani provides the best services of the MED Training; Nutrition & Supplementation .Jim has been a part of the most popular training programs since many years.

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The Information on Supplementation That You Need to Know

I review and give you my Personal Take on Supplement Information you need to know and understand when taking Supplements.

I have been receiving some amazing feedback regarding the launch of JYM Supplement Science, as well as my preworkout supplement, Pre JYM. But of course, as usual when you launch a brand new company, I also have been receiving a lot of questions. Questions such as: Why did I start my own company? What's in my products that are not in others? How am I going to compete with the "big" brands? And many other questions.

I feel that many people have simply not educated themselves properly regarding supplementation, nor do they even know what they should take. I was recently having a conversation with a good friend whom I have worked with in this industry for years. Despite being as deep as he is in the supplement industry, as well as a long-time supplement user, he said,
"Jim, since you launched Pre JYM and have explained to me what's in it and why, I feel like I have just been educated on supplements. I'm actually embarrassed to say that I never actually looked at a label and educated myself on what I should be looking for in products."

He continued and gave me his insight into the mindset of the consumer as he sees it and it made A LOT of sense. He said,"Jim I think that most people including myself simply look at the category of Jym supplements for lets say a preworkout. We see the Strength, Energy, Focus, and Pump written in bright shiny lettering on the front of the bottle, then turn the bottle around and look for the listings of creatine, beta-alanine, citrulline, etc... And as long as it has those ingredients listed, it's a solid product in our minds. We know that the companies have to have their best interests in mind, so of course they can't list the actually dosing of each ingredent in their supplement blends for fear that someone else will steal their formula.

That's the mindset we've come to adopt with label reading. So we take the product and WHAMMY, they feel the "stim" and burn through the weights. Even the notion of concentrates have duped me because I was under the misguided impression that some advanced process of condensing the dose down was being employed. Now I realize how foolish I was in believing that nonsense. But ONLY now after you've explained it to me point blank do I actually get it! The problem is that I never have considered myself a supplement expert and I can't even understand most of what is listed on the supplement facts panel of a product. I didn't understand that the DOSE of specific ingredients was much more important than the number of ingredients listed on a product that is given in one super-duper cocktail."

 

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It HIT me like a ton of bricks that he was right. Most people do not understand the real truth behind concepts like "proprietary blends", or the number of grams per serving. These and other marketing gimmicks have duped consumers into thinking that they are getting benefits from products that simply hoax the user into thinking that they are working. This is what has frustrated me for years.

In the videos below, I give the honest reasons as to why I started my own supplement company and what you need to know to be more supplements savvy so that you can empower yourself and make better informed choices when it comes to purchasing supplements.

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