Antioxidant supplementation attenuates the exercise‐induced increase in plasma CK, but not CRP, during moderate intensity endurance exercise in men

We investigated the effect of antioxidant supplementation and repeated bouts of moderate intensity endurance exercise on markers of muscle damage (creatine kinase‐CK) and systemic inflammation (C‐reactive protein‐CRP). Following a placebo‐controlled, double‐blind, parallel, random design, 20 healthy, young, sedentary men performed two separate, but identical, bouts of cycling for 90 min at 65% VO2max. The first bout was after 8 days of …