Improving Your Workouts With Nitric Oxide Supplements.

By Roxy Albright


When you feel fatigued at the gym do you consider the use of nitric oxide supplements? Before we get into that, let's see if this sounds familiar: You have been working out steadily for about six weeks and your workouts seem to have hit a plateau. You are still giving your workouts an exhausting amount of energy, but your body doesn't seem to be responding the same to the intense exercise as it was even weeks ago. You are frustrated and need to find something that will help you break out of the plateau and move back into the results you were seeing early on. Changing up your workout may really help your body to get out of the learned response your body is producing. Another very helpful, but not often considered option, is a supplement containing nitric oxide, also known as l-arginine supplements.

How exactly could nitric oxide supplements increase the productivity of your workout? Well, let's take a little close look. First, what is nitric oxide (also known as NO)? Second, what does NO actually do? Finally, let's discuss the benefits that increased nitric oxide provides to your workout.

Relatively newly discovered in the scientific field, nitric oxide has only been studied in great detail for about the last twenty years. In 1977 it was first discovered and extensive study of NO did not occur until about the 1990's. NO is a gas. It is naturally produced by the body. Its molecular structure consists of one nitrogen atom and one oxygen atom. The thalamus regulates NO's production and distribution to the body. To give further proof of its importance in the scientific community, currently, there are over 200 government-funded trials underway involving NO and what uses nitric oxide supplements might have for the increase of NO in the body.

What exactly is NO? Nitric oxide is a gas that up until about 40 years of age is produced by the body naturally. NO regulates and maintains many of the body's organs, including the heart, lungs, and circulatory system. It is often after the age of 40 when we start to see major declines in the health of major body systems. This directly mirrors the decline of nitric oxide production. NO production may very well be a major factor contributing to aging. In fact, recent studies indicate nitric oxide supplements may help with memory loss, erectile dysfunction, asthma, and a host of other conditions (and this is in addition to the well researched benefits that l-arginine supplements have already shown on cardiovascular, circulatory, and cancer.)

How does nitric oxide work and, more importantly, what exactly does that mean for your workouts? Nitric oxide is a vasodialator, meaning that it causes blood vessels to expand rather than constrict. This means that blood flows more quickly and in greater volumes to all areas of the body when nitric oxide is present. This is fantastic for your workouts because it means that your body will receive proper levels of oxygen and greater blood volume and circulation. Proper levels of NO within the body, especially when working out, produce a quicker recovery time, reduced fatigue during high rep exercises, enhanced endurance, increased energy levels, and increased muscle pump.

Nitric oxide supplements, also known as l-arginine supplements, have shown a lot of promise for improving workouts.




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