Fats, carbohydrates and proteins – your body can use them all to produce energy to fuel muscle contraction. How does it know which one to choose? Find out more about fuel usage during exercise – when your body uses carbs and when it turns more to fats – and what factors influence it.
You already know resistance exercise affects muscle cells, causing them to hypertrophy and become larger, and exercise in general helps with loss of body fat. Here’s a novel idea – can exercise actually affect the genes that control the growth of fat cells? Researchers at the Lund University think so. Here’s why.
There’s little doubt that your lungs work harder during exercise – but do they actually become stronger? Find out more about how your lungs adapt or don’t adapt to endurance training and whether lung function can limit exercise performance.
What you eat after exercise and when you eat it matters. It may also affect the results you get from your strength-training workout. Here are four reasons why it’s important to eat a protein and carb meal as soon as your workout is over.
Vitamin D has many important roles in the body, but can it affect your strength and exercise performance? Find out what research shows about vitamin D and exercise and whether you need more vitamin D if you work out.
Are you refueling properly after your endurance workouts? Find out what kinds of foods are best for post-workout nutrition and why timing of your after-exercise meal is so important.
The ATP molecule is the molecule that muscle cells use for energy transport and is made in two significant ways, aerobically and anaerobically. Understanding both of these methods will help you to target your workouts to match your fitness goals.
Do you know how your body generates energy to fuel exercise? Find out more about the ATP three-part energy system the body has for fueling your workout.
There’s little doubt that physiques undergo a noticeable decline when a person goes from gym rat to couch potato. But, do muscles turn to fat?
