Head Kansas City Royals athletic trainer Nick Kenney wants science to help his World Series championship team get even better, which is why the Royals hired Denver-based MuscleSound, the company ...

Over the next few weeks, I will look at different macro nutrients, timing of ingestion and their effects on function. One of the keys to enhanced exercise performance is proper nutrition. Modern ...

What you eat before you work out in the morning has a major effect on how well you do. We don't consume anything at night, ...

In 2009, Usain Bolt set the world record in the 100-meter dash, thanks in large part to a carb called glycogen. This molecule is stored in skeletal muscle and later released to fuel short and intense ...

Building muscle doesn’t start in the gym—it starts on your plate. While intense workouts stimulate growth, it’s nutrition ...

Glycogen, the muscle's primary fuel source during exercise, is replenished more rapidly when athletes ingest both carbohydrate and caffeine following exhaustive exercise, new research shows. Athletes ...

UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine Correspondence to: Dr H G L Rauch UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Sports Science Institute, Boundary Road ...

Extract: Total glycogen synthetase and syntheatse I (glucose 6-PO 4 indendependent) and phosphorylase and phosphorylase a activites determined in muscle from fetal,neonatal, infant, and adult rhesus ...

We often discuss concepts like the aerobic threshold, the anaerobic threshold, the lactate threshold, etc. But have you heard of the Glycogen Threshold? To put it simply, low carbs availability in ...

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