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The Best Electrolyte Drinks
Before you buy the sachets: researchers dehydrated athletes on purpose and compared three drinks properly. Most people reaching for these do not need them at all.
4 min readThe Best Running Shoes
Super shoes really do make you faster, by about four percent, on flat ground. Take them up a hill and most of that advantage quietly disappears.
4 min readThe Best Resistance Bands
Bands are real training tools with real but modest effects. Here is what they actually did in trials, and how to buy a set you will not replace in a month.
5 min readThe Best Knee Sleeves
Thick sleeves or thin ones, and does compression gear do anything at all? One study compared them in the squat, another read almost two hundred papers.
5 min readThe Best Lifting Belt
A belt made lifters squat more weight. What it did not do was make them any steadier, which is the opposite of why most people wear one.
5 min readThe Best Pre-Workout
The scoop promises a different animal. Put it against plain carbohydrate in a proper blinded trial and the gap gets uncomfortably small.
4 min readThe Best Fish Oil
Fish oil at a dose you could actually get from food, tested for twelve weeks in trained adults. Here is what changed and what did not.
5 min readThe Best Protein Bars
Protein bars hit their low sugar numbers using sugar alcohols. Researchers fed people that much every day for a week, and the results are a warning about the dose.
4 min readThe Best Creatine
You want the one that works and won't wreck your gut. Here's the plain version, and where the science is still thin.
4 min readThe Best Whey Protein
Skip the hype on the tub. Here's what's actually solid, what's thin, and how to choose a whey you'll actually use.
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