High doses of protein for muscle building? What current research in Evidence Based Fitness has to say about it - from a reliable source and blog. Acute post-exercise myofibrillar protein synethesis is not correlated with resistance training-induced muscle hypertrophy in young men. So what does this mean? I think this is a huge blow to a lot of protein synthesis research as it pertains to hypertrophy. It means that single-point testing is probably not predictive of hypertrophy. It calls into question almost all of the evidence looking at nutrient supplementation and hypertrophy short of the trials that actually measured hypertrophy (which is most of them, because there are not that many ultrasound or MRI studies on hypertrophy). It also means that strategies to promote MPS (eating frequent doses of protein over the course of the day, for instance) may actually be ancillary, and not core, must-do behaviours. Suffice it say, I think this derails a lot of existing research and opens an exciting path to a proxy-free research approach that will hopefully glean us better and more accurate answers. evidencebasedfitness.net/protein-synthesis-muscle-hypertrophy-no-proxies/
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:00:25 +0000