Journal article
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