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New Study Says Coffee Enhances Muscle Glycogen Recovery

December 29, 2021 - Admin
category: Health, Muscle Growth, Post Workout, Recovery

 

By Steve Blechman

           

Exercise capacity and fatigue are greatly influenced by glycogen stores in muscle and in the liver. Recovery from repeated intense workouts depends on restoration on muscle, liver and glycogen stores. A post-workout meal should contain adequate amounts of carbohydrates to help restore muscle and liver glycogen to enhance recovery.

Advanced Molecular Labs (AML) Post Workout formula is a scientifically advanced post-workout containing creatine monohydrate (5 grams) and leucine (5 grams). Creatine promotes muscle adaptation to training and stimulates muscle growth. Research has shown that creatine monohydrate combined with leucine can enhance muscle growth and maximize recovery and protein synthesis. Supplemental leucine post-exercise also enhances muscle creatine uptake via insulin-mediated effect.

Creatine also promotes muscle glycogen storage. Creatine monohydrate plus carbohydrates increases muscle glycogen restoration following exhaustive exercise better than carbohydrate feeding alone.

AML Post Workout also contains betaine (2.5 grams). It is an excellent post-workout supplement when combined with leucine and creatine. Betaine is an osmolyte that enhances muscle cell swelling, stimulating protein synthesis and decreasing protein breakdown, resulting in muscle growth.

AML Post Workout also contains potassium (500 milligrams) and magnesium (100 mg) from potassium and magnesium citrate that enhance hydration and muscle cell volume as an osmolyte. Therefore, it works synergistically with creatine and betaine to enhance muscular recovery and muscle growth.

For maximum benefits take 1 scoop of AML Post Workout immediately after cardio and a resistance-training workout, before eating a post-workout meal. When taking AML Post Workout, you will have support for improved muscle glycogen and muscle growth from multiple pathways and fast recovery time after your workout.

A recent study published September 23, 2021, in the journal Nutrients reported that coffee increases post-exercise muscular glycogen recovery in endurance athletes.

The researchers acknowledged that “In this study, we showed that coffee increased post-exercise muscle glycogen resynthesis and the glycemic and insulinemic response during a 4-h recovery period after an exhaustive cycling exercise session, when compared with the control. This is consistent with our hypothesis that the combination of coffee with recommended amounts of carbohydrates would favor post-exercise muscle glycogen resynthesis.”

In conclusion, the study says that the addition of coffee as part of a post-exercise meal or beverage with adequate amounts of carbohydrates is an effective strategy to improve muscle glycogen recovery. The researchers also say, “It is currently not possible to define the exact coffee components underlying the latter effect. However, caffeine, caffeic acid, and cafestol are plausible candidates, given previous findings indicating their effect on insulin secretion and muscle glucose uptake. These findings add to the current knowledge on ergonomic properties of coffee.”

 

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