BRAIN GAINS
This page is the nerve center for coaches and athletes who want to improve their understanding of training, nutrition, physiology, and athlete development. If you’re just getting started, you can quickly grow your knowledge base and advance your understanding. If you’ve done this for decades, or have advanced degrees, we provide links to the underlying scientific research, so you can go deep into the details. Everyone will find something to use in their next training session.
ARTICLES
How Fatigue Harms Motor Learning
Optimizing Carbohydrate Intake to Maximize Glycogen Availability
Rate of Force Development: Physiological and Methodological Considerations
Consolidation of Human Skill Linked to Walking Hippo-Campo-Neocortical Replay
Cellular Metabolic Homeostasis During Large-Scale Change in ATP Turnover Rates in Muscle
Role of the Phosphocreatine System in Cellular Energetic Homeostasis