Doping! The Smiths are Doping!

Haven't the Smiths both admitted to using Motrin? April 10, 2008, NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a study of healthy older adults lifting weights regularly, for 3 months, taking recommended daily doses of ibuprofen (like that in Advil) or acetaminophen (like that in Tylenol) led to substantially greater increases over inactive placebo in quadriceps muscle mass and strength.... Read the entire article: www.sciam.com/article.cfm Anna Lea The article left out some key things, like: were the leg extension sets standardized (x number of reps over y number of sets)? Without that kind of information, I'm not convinced the answer is metabolic and not the fact that these 60-78 year-olds can do more reps because their pain is buffered.

Haven't the Smiths both admitted to using Motrin? April 10, 2008, NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a study of healthy older adults lifting weights regularly, for 3 months, taking recommended daily doses of ibuprofen (like that in Advil) or acetaminophen (like that in Tylenol) led to substantially greater increases over inactive placebo in quadriceps muscle mass and strength.... Read the entire article: www.sciam.com/article.cfm Anna Lea The article left out some key things, like: were the leg extension sets standardized (x number of reps over y number of sets)? Without that kind of information, I'm not convinced the answer is metabolic and not the fact that these 60-78 year-olds can do more reps because their pain is buffered.