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Nutritional Supplementation and Resistance Exercise: What Is the Evidence for Enhanced Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy?

Abstract

Many athletes and recreational weightlifters believe that dietary manipulations' either following a single bout of resistance exercise or during habitual training may augment the normal gains in muscle fibre hypertrophy. Very few studies, however, have directly examined the effect of nutritional supplementation on muscle protein metabolism after resistance exercise. Ingestion of an amino acid and/or carbohydrate solution during the initial …

Authors

Gibala MJ

Journal

Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 524–535

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Publication Date

December 1, 2000

DOI

10.1139/h00-034

ISSN

1715-5312