Chapter 6 Amino Acids and Exercise Molecular and Cellular Aspects

Resistance exercise and amino acid feeding are potent stimuli for the accrual of skeletal muscle, and as such, are often used as a means to increase muscle mass in athletes or combat muscle loss in disease states. In response to resistance exercise and amino acid feeding there is a profound stimulation of muscle protein synthesis (MPS) that is underpinned by a series of protein kinase phosphorylation events. Our understanding as to how …