March 29, 2009

No pain, more gain?!?

Posted in fitness, human factors tagged Analgesic, Health, Liver, Muscle, Resistance training, Stress at 10:22 am by waynezwhirled

There is recent research that shows that consumption of ibuprofen or acetaminophen, in conjunction with long-term resistance training, results in more muscle mass increase than for a placebo case.  I support natural, non-supplement training but this is interesting.  They don’t seem to address the implications of potential liver stress (for example due to repetitive use of acetaminophen).  They attribute the effect to muscular biochemistry effects, but I wonder if there is some pain suppression involved that results in the workouts being a little more intense for the analgesic case.

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