How does muscle strength and muscle mass change as you age? Find out how your muscles change with age and the role diet and exercise play in staying strong, defined and healthy as you grow older.
To build muscle, you have to create the right conditions for hypertrophy to occur. There’s a protein called mTOR that plays an important role in muscle protein synthesis. When this protein is turned on, protein synthesis occurs. Find out how diet and the type of exercise you do influences this protein and makes it easier or harder to build lean body mass.
Are your fitness goals conflicting? Are you unknowingly making it harder to meet your goals by the type of exercise you’re doing? If you’re trying to build lean body mass, doing extra long periods of steady-state cardio may be sending the wrong signals to your muscles and making it difficult for them to grow. Find out why.
Now a new study shows that eating foods rich in the amino acid leucine may help preserve muscle mass when dieting.
