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Using the ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin (ECA) stack can help to kick-start fat loss as well as blunting hunger. However, some ...

appearance will suffer. Guidelines for the pre-contest bodybuilder to track body composition changes appear below: Weigh and ta ...

will be on Sunday, the day after the carb-up. This helps establish ketosis quickly without negatively affecting the Monday and T ...

Monday/Tuesday: Monday and Tuesday are normal training and diet days. As always, pre- breakfast aerobics is optional, but will ...

performed until strength starts to drop. This indicates that glycogen is being fully depleted. Since glycogen levels should be l ...

will allow the loss of any water being held beneath the skin. Friday: The day before the contest Regardless of appearance, the ...

Saturday: Prejudging and the evening show Between prejudging and the evening show is a nebulous area. Many people involved in ...

Part VIII: Supplements Chapter 31: General health Chapter 32: Fat loss Chapter 33: The carb-load Chapter 34: Muscle/strength gai ...

Chapter 31: Supplements for the ketogenic diet There are a number of supplements which can be useful on a ketogenic diet, depend ...

the inclusion of high fiber vegetables, such as a large salad, can help with regularity in addition to the nutrients they provid ...

vitamin C, vitamin E and the carotenoids. J Am Diet Assoc (1996) 96: 693-702. Dekkers JC et. al. “The role of antioxidant vitam ...

Chapter 32: Fat loss aids Although there is no magic pill which can cause fat loss without effort, there are supplements which c ...

mobilize free fatty acids (FFA) for burning when activated. Additionally, the stimulation of B-2 receptors seem to help prevent ...

Ephedrine may work through both direct and indirect methods. Directly it can attach to beta receptors itself. However at the con ...

effects of ephedrine (8). The effects of aspirin on ephedrine appears to occur primarily in obese, but not lean individuals (12, ...

with one dose in the morning for several days, adding a second dose as tolerance increases, and finally the third dose. Some aut ...

increased fat breakdown and dosing yohimbe has been shown to increase fat loss on a diet (24- 27). Since the presence of insulin ...

‘brake’. Combining ECA with yohimbe is similar to pressing on the accelerator while releasing the brake at the same time which s ...

L-carnitine L-carnitine is an amino acid involved in the burning of FFA for energy (28). Previous chapters have detailed how the ...

Toxicol 1997; 37:421-450. Dulloo AG. Ephedrine, xanthine, and prostaglandin-inhibitors: actions and interactions in the stimula ...