{"id":61,"date":"2013-01-29T21:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T21:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2015-11-07T04:59:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T04:59:29","slug":"qa-time-january-29-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A Time! Amino Acids Effective? January 29, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Are extra amino acids a waste of time? Will I really see a difference?<\/p>\n<p>A: As a whole, they are the most critical amino acids to take. Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston) found that leucine (the key branched-chain amino acid) is crucial for kick-starting the muscle growth process. Leucine is one of three BCAAs. In a study that I conducted with colleagues from the College of Charleston (South Carolina), we found that trained bodybuilders taking additional BCAAs gained more than twice the strength and muscle mass \u2014 and lost more than twice as much bodyfat \u2014 as those not taking them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 5px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"button_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/?p=61\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Are extra amino acids a waste of time? Will I really see a difference? A: As a whole, they are the most critical amino acids to take. Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston) found that leucine (the key branched-chain amino acid) is crucial for kick-starting the muscle growth process. Leucine is&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"teaser-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/?p=61\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition","category-offseason","category-pre-contest","category-supplementation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvp-athletics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}