this is an article im cutting and pasting, it was written by Paul Cribb (a sports scientist from AST). Everyone let me know what you think. I'm rather excited about it and plan on adding these 2 suppliment to my diet while I'm weight training.
A team of scientists in Australia has shown that two unique sports supplements can increase force and energy production while accelerating recovery, without exercise training! Researchers at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia have completed a series of studies that suggest two
nutritional supplements, VP2 Whey Isolate and Micronized Creatine may increase muscle strength and energy levels, even before you've visited the gym!
Athletes would possess an instant advantage, simply adding these supplements to their diets. "As they appear to enhance muscular force and energy production capacity, these supplements would theoretically provide quicker recovery and better adaptations from training" said Mr. Andrew Williams, one of the scientists that supervised this research.
Science of Enhancing Muscular Performance.
Mr. Williams, along with Associate Professor Michael Carey and Dr. Allan Hayes, supervised a series of post-graduate studies at the university's Exercise Metabolism Unit. This research involved supplementing rodent's diets with VP2 Whey Isolate or Micronized Creatine. After six weeks of supplementation, the rodent's muscles were put through a series of analyses that measured force and energy production and were compared with muscles taken from other rats that were fed regular chow.
Mr. Graeme Smith, Mathew Cooke and Ms. Emma Rybalka, the honors students conducting this research, discovered that VP2 Whey Isolate and Micronized Creatine increased mitochondrial ATP (energy) production rates, force production, recovery between contractions and calcium uptake in various types of muscle.
VP2 Whey Isolate was shown to increase mitochondrial energy production in "fast-twitch" muscle fibers - the fibers that generate explosive strength and power. "Fast-twitch" fibers are also often referred to as the "bodybuilding" fibers, as they respond with a dramatic increase in size from intense weight lifting. Increasing energy production within these fibers would ensure bodybuilders lifted more weight and allowed them to train with greater intensity.
Micronized Creatine is a state-of-the-art version of the immensely popular performance enhancing supplement creatine monohydrate. In this research Micronized Creatine was shown to increase mitochondrial energy production in "slow-twitch" muscle fibers. These are the muscle cells that power sustained activity, and are required in any type of endurance exercise.
The mitochondria are structures inside all cells that metabolize oxygen and nutrition to produce the majority of energy required for physical activity and to sustain life. The scientists determined mitochondrial energy production by first extracting the mitochondria from the cell, placing it into solution with kreb cycle intermediates and measuring the amount of light emitted with an illuminometer. The amount of light emitted equates to the amount of energy produced. This research revealed the muscles from the supplemented mice showed a significant increase in energy production.
VP2 Whey Isolate increased energy production in the fibers recruited during heavy weight lifting. Micronized Creatine produced the same effect in endurance muscle fibers. This research suggests athletes could enhance their work capacity and recovery rates simply by including these two supplements into their nutritional program!
Supplements Increase Muscle Force.
The rodents who received VP2 or Micronized
Creatine supplementation also possessed stronger muscle fibers. These two supplements produced significantly higher absolute and specific muscular force in both fast and slow muscle fibers. Micronized Creatine actually produced an increase the percentage of fast-twitch muscle fibers, and improved recovery rate between muscle contractions.
Other research on humans confirms that these supplements increase muscular strength in the weight room and accelerate training adaptations to produce faster growth. The results of this research suggests that Micronized Creatine maybe used by genetically-average bodybuilders to help increase the ratio of "rapid-growth" fibers within their muscles.
Aside from an enhance energy production capacity, a major finding of this research was a direct increase in muscular force in rodent muscle after supplementation with VP2 and Micronized Creatine.
VP2 and Micronized Creatine Enhance Calcium Uptake!
Calcium uptake and release within muscles controls muscle contraction. After the supplementation program, both VP2 and Micronized Creatine enhanced calcium uptake in muscle to produce quicker contraction/relaxation cycles during electrical stimulation. This enhanced calcium uptake saves an enormous amount of energy and creates incredible efficiency during high intensity exercise. Enhanced calcium control within muscle would ensure greater work capacity and enhanced muscular performance.
Both supplements improved calcium control in muscle. This automatically equates to greater work capacity during high intensity contractions.
All of these benefits I have described are usually seen after a prolonged, intense exercise program. However, in this research all these benefits occurred with supplementation, without any exercise training involved!
These results suggest simply by adding VP2 and Micronized Creatine to the diet, bodybuilders could provide themselves with an incredible advantage for building muscle - they would possess an enhanced energy production and recovery capacity even before they began training! The results also suggest that over the duration of a training program, an athlete that is using VP2 and Micronized Creatine would obtain greater adaptations (results) from their training program.
Obviously, there is a substantial gap between animal research and real world sports performance, and much more research is warranted. However, studies with humans have supported these findings and it is important to note that this is the first time "supplemented" muscle has been placed under the microscope and what we are seeing is astonishing! This research provides direct evidence that certain dietary proteins do have a direct beneficial impact on muscle physiology, and this has a direct result on athletic performance.
The data obtained in these studies complement research performed the year previously that demonstrated VP2 Whey Isolate produced extraordinary gains in strength and muscle mass in a group of experienced bodybuilders. The results of this study are being presented later this year at the prestigious American College of Sports Medicine Annual Convention held in St. Louis, Missouri in the USA.
Witnessing the direct benefits of nutritional supplementation within muscle is an exciting, entirely new frontier in enhancing athletic performance. So great are the significance of these results that AST has commissioned five more studies to be completed this year. I'll keep you posted on the results.
Good read but I wouldn't spend my money on something I know is exactly the same as the stuff I get which is a lot cheaper ........peace
I know nothing about this company and didn't know that the V2 stuff was their product, I thought it was the technical name and not the brand name, hence the reason I beleived it. Damn, oh well. I was hoping I had one extra thing to help me out (I'm still going to lift and run, I'm not a lazy prick). Thanks for the insight bro
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