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Dexter Jackson wins the 2008 Australian Pro Grand Prix. March 8, 2008

Dexter Jackson earned his second win of the year at the 2008 Australian Pro Grand Prix on Saturday in Victoria, Australia. Jackson, who won the Australian Pro a year ago and also in 2004, is coming off a win at last week's Arnold Classic. The win was Jackson's third Australian Pro Grand Prix title, which matches the number of Arnold Classic titles Jackson has now won.
Melvin Anthony finished second, while Moe Elmoussawi (third), Toney Freeman (fourth), Troy Alves (fifth) and Ronnie Rockel (sixth) rounded out the top six.

Dexter Jackson 1st

Melvin Anthony 2nd

Moe Elmoussawi 3rd

Dexter and Melvin

Tony and Dexter

Final Placings
1. Dexter Jackson
2. Melvin Anthony
3. Moe Elmoussawi
4. Toney Freeman
5. Troy Alves
6. Ronnie Rockel
7. Sergey Shelestov
8. Jaroslav Horvath
9. Martin Kjellstrom
10. Oscar Tua Dexter
11. Con Demetriou (Aust)
12. Michael Kingsnorth
13. Oliver Adzievski
14. Bola Ojex
15. Salah Ibraham

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What Is Beta Alanine?

Beta-Alanine increases intramuscular carnosine concentrations. Carnosine is a dipeptide - meaning that it is two amino acids bound together that plays a critical role in athletic performance.
During exercise, a working muscle undergoes an intramuscular pH balance change. As immediate energy system fuel is broken down to power muscular movements, hydrogen ions accumulate and lower the intramuscular pH levels, producing acidosis - an acidic state that triggers inflammation and muscular failure.
Carnosine plays a critical role in the muscular failure process because it acts as a buffering agent that buffers muscle tissue from acidity, thereby delaying muscular failure.
As a carnosine breakdown product, Beta-Alanine can also be used as a carnosine precursor. When used as a supplement ingredient, Beta-Alanine is taken up by skeletal muscles and, together with histidine, is resynthesized into carnosine by an enzyme called carnosine synthetase. Research shows that Beta-Alanine supplementation can increase intramuscular carnosine levels by up to 64%!
An increase in intramuscular carnosine levels can increase the buffering capacity of a muscle by up to 20%. By increasing the lactate threshold, Beta-Alanine supplementation can result in a dramatic delay of fatigue and failure, and considerable improvements in muscular working capacity and performance.
Recent scientific research demonstrates that Beta-Alanine produces additional benefits when supplemented with creatine monohydrate. One study showed that Beta-Alanine and creatine monohydrate supplementation produced a synergistic effect whereby total power output was dramatically increased and fat-free mass gain, strength increases and body fat reductions were greater than with creatine monohydrate supplementation alone.

Overtraining: The Natural Bodybuilders Nightmare

Overtraining is probably one of the most serious obstacles for natural bodybuilders. As you already know, muscle growth occurs as a response to high intensity training that progressively overloads the muscles and forces them in this way to grow in order to meet the demand. However, when the muscles do not get the time and rest needed to rebuild them, this strategy immediately backfires, resulting in overtraining.

Overtraining results in a variety of negative effects on the body, including both physiological and psychological disturbances. Physiological symptoms include lower performance in the gym, manifested with decrements in strength and lean body mass, changes in blood pressure and heart rate, prolonged muscle soreness, stiffness, increased joint and muscle aches, delayed recovery from training and increased chances of injury. You can also suffer from chronic fatigue, dehydration, loss in appetite and sleep disturbances (insomnia, poor quality sleep). In addition, your immune system can be also compromised, thus making your more susceptible to minor infections (e.g. colds), gastric problems, headaches, and prolonging your healing time. Psychological symptoms include loss of motivation, pessimism, unusual feelings of sadness or depression, mood swings, increased apathy and irritability, anxiety and reduced ability to concentrate. The appearance of some of these symptoms must be used as a warning, and deserves a detailed following in order to assess your overtraining degree.

Of course, the best treatment for overtraining is prevention. This must be accomplished from several points of view, including training, rest and nutrition. With respect to training, the key is to do exactly the right amount of sets needed for stimulating the muscles. Doing additional sets will yield no benefit and it can even be counterproductive. In this sense, you should keep workouts short (preferably less than 1 hour) since after that time your hormonal levels become very unfavorable (pronounced cortisol release and testosterone depletion). In addition, don't overuse high-intensity techniques such as supersets, pre/post-exhaustion or descending sets, since they are very demanding both mentally and physically.

Adequate rest is fundamental for allowing muscle recovery. Don't go to the gym too often (aim for 3 or 4 days per week, maximum 5 in advanced routines) and let a muscle fully recover before directly training it again. In addition, once a while take a break in your routine. You will come back totally recovered, both mentally and physically, being able to deal with intense activities once again. It is recommended to take a week off for every 12 weeks of constant exercise. In addition, remember to get adequate sleep (at least 8 hours per day) for proper recovery. Focus also in mental recovery by getting lots of relaxation and trying to minimize stressful events in your life which will contribute to slowdown recovery.

Nutrition has also an important role in overtraining prevention. Have a balanced diet including the right amount of all macronutrients (e.g. 55% calories from carbohydrates, 30% from protein and 15% from fat). Take care of fulfilling your daily caloric requirements, or even better, having a caloric surplus. Distribute your food intake among 6 different meals along the day to guarantee a constant flow of nutrients to the muscles and control cortisol levels, avoiding catabolism. Take care also of having the needed micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and plenty of water, using a multivitamin supplement if needed.

These practices contribute to prevent overtraining, and they must be also followed if you have already entered in an overtraining state. In this case, you should additionally rest completely from training of any form for some days. Then, begin training tentatively, with very light weights and short sessions. Once you recover, it is important to review your training program to avoid overtraining again. Set realistic goals so you don't train your body harder than it can handle, train depending on how the body feels and learn to recognize overtraining symptoms.

The Skinny on Low Carb Ingredients

The low carb diet craze has waned a little, but low carb products are here to stay. They offer smart alternatives for people looking to manage their sugar intake and their weight, and make ideal snacks as they don't send blood sugar through the roof and can often be high in fibre.
The majority of low carb bars in our market are imported from the USA or Canada. These are normally labelled under the US food regulations, despite the fact they are meant to be labelled in compliance with Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) requirements. The US regulations are different to ours and we've had several questions about their labelling.

Carbohydrate Content Analysis
In the US, carbohydrate is effectively labelled as ‘carbohydrate by difference’. The term carbohydrate by difference (CBD) stems from the 'proximate analysis' typically performed by a food chemistry lab when testing the composition of a food product.
Proximate analysis involves testing the fat, protein, moisture and ash content of the food. The ash content is effectively the mineral content (everything else burns off, leaving only a mineral ash). The fat, protein, moisture and ash are then subtracted from 100 to determine the carbohydrate content i.e. it is assumed that everything else is carbohydrate.
This assumption is more valid for some foods than it is others. In some foods, CBD will include some compounds which, while being carbohydrate in chemical nature (i.e hydrates of carbon), are not metabolised in the same manner as conventional carbohydrates (like sugars and starches).
Fibre is perhaps the most obvious example. While based on the same subunits as starches, it’s high degree of cross linking means the human gut is not able to break it down and it therefore passes on into the large intestine undigested.
Our local FSANZ code recognises this and allows manufacturers to go further and subtract a number of non or partially metabolised carbohydrates from CBD. These must however be included separately in the nutrition panel and their energy value must still be included in the total energy content of the food.

Maltitol
Maltitol belongs to a group of ingredients known as polyols or sugar alcohols. The term sugar alcohol should not be taken to mean that these ingredients are either alcoholic or sugar in nature.
Maltitol is manufactured from natural starch. It is slowly and only partially digested in the small intestine. It then passes to the large intestine where it is slowly fermented. According to one of the major manufacturers of maltitol its Glycemic Index is estimated to be 29 and its metabolisable energy content is 16kJ/g (conventional carbs such as starches are 17kJ/g).

Glycerine (aka glycerol)
Glycerine is essentially the three carbon molecule that forms the back bone of a triglyceride (fat) molecule. Each carbon has an alcohol group attached (in a triglyceride these are replaced with a fatty acid). It is a commonly occurring compound in human metabolism and found naturally in both plant and animal products. While metabolised and absorbed it does not elicit a significant blood glucose or insulin response.
The practice of not including glycerine in either carbohydrate total or the energy content of bars got several US bar manufacturers in trouble with the US FDA. Under the FSANZ code it can be subtracted from the carbohydrate total.

Polydextrose
Polydextrose is made up of glucose units that have been highly cross linked (in the same manner as fibres). It behaves in a similar manor to fibre and is resistant to digestion and again does not have a significant glycemic effect. It’s metabolisable energy content is 5kJ/g.

Net Carbs and Impact Carbs
Many imported bars use these terms in a panel separate to the nutrition information. It is essentially the carbohydrate by difference with compounds such as polyols, fibre and glycerol subtracted. USA manufacturers have basically invented this term, faced with older, more restrictive food labelling regulations

L-GLUTAMINE Explained

What is Glutamine?
Glutamine is the most abundant free amino acid in the human body. It constitutes 50-60% of the total free amino acid pool in skeletal muscle and about 20% of the plasma amino acid pool1.
It is essential for many important homeostatic functions (which include body fluid and pH balance, and regulation of body temperature and heart rate) and the optimum functioning of a number of body tissues, particularly the immune system and the gut.
Glutamine is involved in nitrogen transport from organ to organ and directly influences the balance of protein synthesis (an anabolic process) and protein degradation (a catabolic process).
Glutamine is found naturally occurring in almost all animal and plant protein sources. As a dietary supplement, Glutamine is available as free form L-Glutamine: a white, free flowing fine powder which has no odour and a slightly characteristic taste. Glutamine: A Conditionally Essential Amino Acid
Glutamine is a non-essential amino acid under normal conditions, meaning the body is able to produce enough to meet its own requirements. Glutamine becomes essential during certain physiological states, which is why it is termed a 'conditionally essential' amino acid2.
Physical conditions such as critical illness, stress conditions including heavy resistance exercise, endurance exercise, post-operative burns and trauma and overtraining syndrome result in an increased requirement for glutamine.
Under these conditions, skeletal muscle and the liver are no longer able to maintain normal plasma glutamine concentrations because of strongly increased requirements for glutamine by the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, immune system and inflammatory cells. The extra glutamine essential for healthy cellular function must therefore be provided in the diet.
Glutamine occurs naturally in a wide variety of foods but is easily destroyed by cooking and is unstable in a liquid form.
Supplementation with glutamine has been shown to result in improved nitrogen balance and preservation of skeletal muscle3.Glutamine Metabolism

Glutamine is synthesised in the body from glutamate by the action of glutamine synthetase3. The primary site for glutamine synthesis is in skeletal muscle. The lungs, liver and brain are the secondary sites 4.
Glutamine's key structural feature is that it contains two nitrogen atoms. This enables it to function as a nitrogen shuttle, carrying nitrogen between different organs and tissues.
Glutamine is utilised primarily as a fuel source by tissues such as the small intestine, immune system and hair follicles (Figure 1) . The GI tract alone accounts for 40% of the total glutamine utilised by the body3. It is also utilised by a smaller extent in the kidneys and in the liver where it plays a vital role, assisting in numerous detoxification processes. Glutamine is able to cross the blood-brain barrier, where it is used as an energy source and a precursor for neurotransmitter substances.

Why is Glutamine Important in Sports Nutrition?
Because athletes subject their bodies to high levels of physical (and mental) stress, many nutrients, including glutamine, are required at levels above those of a non-training person. If a sufficient quantity and quality of a nutrient is not obtained in the diet, or is unable to be manufactured by the body at the required rate, depletion occurs. This can contribute to sub-optimal performance and slow recovery times.
Supplementation to insure dietary intake is adequate becomes an important consideration. Glutamine supplementation can be beneficial for athletes for the following reasons:

Support of Immune System
Glutamine increases the numbers of circulating lymphocytes and macrophages5 , which can be useful in decreasing the incidence of infections or illness resultant from over-training6. Glutamine helps to protect the body from cellular stress and the build up of waste substances that accompany bouts of heavy resistance and endurance training.

Restoration of Protein in Skeletal Muscle
Glutamine restores protein in skeletal muscle by both anabolic and anti-catabolic mechanisms. The anabolic effect is an increase in protein synthesis7 and the promotion of muscle cell volumisation8. Additional glutamine affects nitrogen balance, ensuring it remains positive and thus preventing a decline in muscle protein synthesis10.
Cortisol is an adrenal stress hormone that triggers catabolic (tissue breakdown) activity in muscle, whereas the hormone testosterone stimulates anabolic (tissue building) activity. Increased levels of cortisol and decreased levels of testosterone are suggested to indicate a disturbance in the anabolic-catabolic balance, which can lead to decreased performance9. Glutamine exerts an anti-catabolic effect in muscle tissue by counteracting the proteolytic effect of cortisol.

Fuel for Cells in Different Organs of the Body
The GI tract is the primary site of glutamine utilisation. Other organs that use glutamine include the liver, kidneys, brain and immune cells. The provision of supplemental glutamine could assist in providing the requirements of these organs, thus sparing muscle protein3.

Glucose Regulation
Glutamine has an integral role in glucose regulation. After an acute or high intensity training/activity session, muscle and liver glycogen stores become depleted. Glutamine acts as both a substrate for glucose formation and a regulator of this process, increasing glucose production and muscle glycogen storage12.

Safety of Orally Administered L-Glutamine
Glutamine is absorbed efficiently by the human gastrointestinal tract. Acute oral ingestion of glutamine at doses up to 0.3 grams per kg of body weight showed no evidence of clinical toxicity (i.e. approximately 21 grams for 70kg person)14.

Oral supplementation is an effective13 and safe14 means of providing additional free glutamine to the body.

Glutamine: When and How Much
It is known that muscle glutamine levels decline in a dose-dependent manner to the degree of stress (i.e. greater the stress, the greater the loss), thus the need for glutamine is variable for different athletes.
The daily requirement of glutamine for an athlete is between 8 to 20 grams, depending upon the dietary intake of glutamine containing foods, health and frequency and intensity of exercise. Glutamine supplementation ranging from 2 to 6 grams, two to four times throughout the day is suggested15.
There is no preferred time for glutamine administration. It is suggested one dose early in the morning and one either prior to or after a workout or training session will assist in maintaining plasma levels of glutamine and may confer anti-catabolic protection.

See Figure 1: Sites for Glutamine production and usage in the human body

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Rowbottom, D.G. et al., 1996. The Emerging Role of Glutamine as an Indicator of Exercise Stress and Overtraining. Sports Med. 21 (2), 80-97.
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Castell, L.M. et al., 1996. Does Glutamine have a Role in Reducing Infections in Athletes? Eur. J. Appl. Physiol. 73(5), 488-490.
Hankard, R.G. et al., 1996. Effect of Glutamine on Leucine Metabolism in Humans. Am. J. Physiol. 271: E748-E754.
Haussinger, et al., 1994. Regulation of Cell Function by the Cellular Hydration State : Am. J. Physiol. 267: E343-E355.
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Varnier, M. et al., 1995. Stimulatory Effect of Glutamine on Glycogen Accumulation in Human Skeletal Muscle. Am. J. Physiol. 269: E309-E315.
Dechelotte, P. et. al., 1991. Absorption and Metabolic Effects of Enterally Administered Glutamine in Humans . Am. J. Physiol. 260: G677-682.
Ziegler, T.R. et al., 1990. Safety and Metabolic Effects of L-Glutamine Administration in Humans .J. Parenter. Enteral Nutr. 14: 137S-146S.
Burke, E.R., 1999. Optimal Muscle Recovery. Avery Publishing Group, New York, pp 80-84.

Bananas bring out the personal best in athletes

World class sportspeople like Australian cricketers, Tour de France cyclists and professional tennis players all agree on one thing; if you are looking for an energy boost, reach for a banana.
“Bananas have three great attributes to offer anyone involved in sport,” says Sports Dietitian Glenn Cardwell, author of the sports nutrition manual Gold Medal Nutrition. “Bananas are easy to eat, they taste great, and they generate muscle energy to sustain the athlete during events.
“Bananas provide sugars in an easy-to-peel package. Once digested, the sugars become glucose in the blood. Glucose is the very same sugar that muscles use for energy, and the reason why the banana is a favourite of both elite and recreational athletes around the world,” says Cardwell.
The best banana for any active person is a ripe fruit, one that has begun to have brown mottling on the skin. A riper banana has had a lot of its starch broken down to glucose, making it both sweeter and quicker to digest. As the glucose is absorbed from the intestine it goes to the muscles to be burned as fuel during muscle contractions.
Cardwell says, “Bananas can even play a psychological role in sport. Years ago, I met a footballer who always ate a banana before a game because the first time he did this he was best-on-ground. Sometimes a banana’s power goes beyond its nutritional benefits.”
Bananas are also popular after sport to help replace the glucose stores burned up during activity.
Cardwell says, “I have worked with AFL footballers, Super 14 Rugby players and NBL basketballers and they all appreciate having bananas to eat, washed down with sports drinks and water as part of their post-game recovery.”
At the same time bananas offer a lot more than a convenient source of carbohydrate for muscles and energy. They are a good source of vitamin B6, folate, potassium, magnesium and vitamin C to keep active people in good health.
Importantly, there is no fat in a banana; it helps athletes to keep in good shape too. The banana is the healthy energy snack appreciated by all athletes.

INBA News

Max's INBA South Australian Titles

If you are intending to compete or even thinking about it, can you let me know by phone or e-mail please. Please include the class you are competing in. This is just to give me an indication of numbers and makes organizing the show much easier. The official poster will be out later on in the year

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Letters To The Editor

Hi Kim,

Loved the article re: biggest loser – I thought it was pretty shit how they made out losing 1-2kg as a failure too – it took me 8 months to loose 18kg by myself – 2kg a week is a fantastic loss!
I thought the state last years winner, Chris got himself in was dangerous. – He looked sickening thin from running daily marathons – it was disgusting and irresponsible of the show to allow him to do it.
Another criticism I've heard about the show is the complete lack of support afterwards – it’s no surprising a few of the contestants have put weight back on.
Looks like they found a loophole to kick off the walker – wouldn’t it have been a hoot if the rest of them all went on strike and said stuff this we’re walking too!

Television aye? I'm sticking to pumping iron.

Cheers,
Nick

Editor: Check out last months issue on The Biggest Loser.

Dear Kim

I have been receiving your newsletter for sometime now and had nothing substantial to contribute.
I thought my recent experience however, may be an example and of some help to other readers.
Recently, I decided to have an elective surgical procedure to remove some osteophytes (bone spurs) from my left elbow
as my extension and flexion of that joint was becoming quite painful.
Post procedure the surgeon and myself discussed returning to training and recovery times. Both of us agreed that I could train "legs" fairly soon after the procedure. Obviously upper body workouts would take some time with gradual progression.
Three weeks post op and after a post op consult I was confident enough to go back and start "legs".
I have been a consistent and experienced weight trainer for over 15 years and training is major part of my lifestyle and body image so I was pretty keen on getting back to some normality.
I decided to get back in the squat rack and proceeded to warm up and finally to a medium weight, obviously mindful not to lift the bar with my arms I positioned myself under the bar with weight resting just below the trap line. As with natural squat motion I took the weight down-up, down -up, down, then about half the way up I heard a loud snap. Initially I thought wow the bar has snapped, then that's strange the plates are not on the floor. The next thought if the bar hasn't snapped, "...oh shit! My left arm feels a bit strange, my left arm looks a bit strange!" I racked the bar and then observed my arm sort of spasming like a snake that had just been run over.
I stood and wondered what to do. I had better go to hospital, I need an ambulance. Within minutes severe pain had set in, I had no doubt I had severely fractured my Humerus.
That evening I had an open reduction with pins and plate inserted into my left distal humerus (just above my elbow).
If I thought the recovery from the original procedure was long...this is a serious injury!!!! months not weeks, then start again.
There is no point trying to attribute blame or waste time and energy with negativity.
I just thought of some points for people who are serious about there training to discuss with their health professionals before any procedures.

*Do not assume anything e.g what you mean by leg training is not what they might mean.
*Confirm what kgs are involved in your training, people who do not train have got no idea
* Thoroughly understand what was involved in your procedure so you can make an informed choice as well.
* Most importantly don't be premature in returning, wait until there is no doubt of complicating things.
*Surgeons are not great communicators, they are surgeons do not leave any questions unanswered.

Obviously I will put this into perspective I have not got a life threatening diagnosis, I will recover and get back to training maybe not like I was. I am trying to rationalise this by telling myself a break will do me good and maybe I was a little fanatical anyway.

Hopefully my experience will save someone a load of money, time, pain, and embarrassment.

Regards

Peter

Editor: Wow, Peter. I feel for you.

Things We Did At Aussie Muscle

On Saturday the 29th of March, Musclemania World Champion Nick Jones and INBA and ANB Australian Champion Joel Ramintas spent the day at Australian Muscle talking to customers and promoting GenTec Nutrition supplements and Nick's new DVD, Natural Reinvention

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People are asking me all the time for the protein content of foods. Below you can find a list of some popular foods with their protein value.
Food Serving/ Grams of Protein
1 egg white of 1 egg 3.5
1 egg 1 large 6
scrambled egg whites 100g 9
lean ground beef, cooked 100g 25
chicken breast without skin 100g 30
broiled top round beef 100g 30
salmon 100g 27
cheddar cheese 100g 23
low-fat yogurt 1 cup 10
skim milk 1 cup 8
tuna 100g 29
baked beans 1 cup 14
lentils 1 cup 18
pasta 1 cup 5
bread 2 slices 6
tofu 1/2 cup 10
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turkey breast 100g 23

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As well as his complete full body workout, Nick demonstrates his ‘warm-up activation’ technique, recovery method at the beach, and daily nutrition and supplementation. He also visits his valued chiropractor and delivers dozens of tips on technique and injury prevention throughout the DVD. Also included is Nick competing at and winning the 2006 Musclemania World Championship and his posing routine at the 2007 Musclemania Pro. Witness his amazing final contest condition!
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Graduation : 100g / 0.2lb
Body Fat Increments : 0.1%
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Weight Only Function : Yes
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Adult & Child Mode Functions : Yes
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