This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. Effects of 28 days of resistance exercise while consuming commercially available pre- and post-workout supplements, NO-Shotgun and NO-Synthesize on body composition, muscle strength and mass, markers of protein synthesis, and clinical safety markers in males Nutrition & Metabolism 2011, 8:78 doi:10.1186/1743-7075-8-78 Mike Spillane ([email protected]) Neil Schwarz ([email protected]) Sarah Leddy ([email protected]) Tracie Correa ([email protected]) Melodie Minter ([email protected]) Victoria Longoria ([email protected]) Darryn S Willoughby ([email protected]) ISSN 1743-7075 Article type Research Submission date 22 September 2011 Acceptance date 3 November 2011 Publication date 3 November 2011 Article URL http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/8/1/78 This peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in Nutrition & Metabolism are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in Nutrition & Metabolism or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/authors/instructions/ For information about other BioMed Central publications go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/ Nutrition & Metabolism © 2011 Spillane et al. ; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.