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Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2010 Apr 8.
The less muscle myostatin your muscles produces, the greater your muscle mass will be.
Hence the common interest of doctors, sports scientists and the meat industry for finding ways to reduce the production of myostatin. Scientists from the University of Calgary in Canada discovered a new one: low-intensive cardio workout.
Since biologists are aware that ''megabeefsuppliers'' like the Belgian Blue owe their monstrous muscle thanks to a faulty gene for myostatin, myostatin is quite hot in the bio-medical community.
Pharmaceutical companies do tests on people with myostatinblockers, the supplement industry - albeit ineffectively - advertise with myostatin-inhibiting marketed supplements and officials have already begun working on a way to detect myostatin usage, that will certainly emerge in the sport. If they have not done so already.
Less is publicized about research into natural ways to inhibit myostatin.
Except for a medium like this website. Our readers already know that muscle myostatin will be reduced if you dont have a excessive fat stores in your body and some adrenaline-like compounds inhibit myostatin, like the familiar creatine. Moreover, they know that training with weights inhibits the production of myostatin. And a quiet paddle on a bike, we know thanks to the Canadian study published shortly in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, does so aswell.
The Canadians used 10 men with onsetting diabetes and let them cycle in a gym for a 6 months for the study.
The men needed to burn 1200 calories at an intensity of 40-55 percent of their maximum oxygen uptake.So Intensity is incredibly low. You can carry on a conversation with ease.
But that intensity was enough to illicit a hefty reduction of production of myostatin in the mens muscles.
Below you see how much myostatin, the researchers found in the mens muscles.
You are looking at the relationship between myostatin and muscle protein alpha-actin. The very low intensity training resulted in a reduction of 37 percent.
In the blood the amount of myostatin reduced from 28.7 to 22.8 ng / ml.
This represents a reduction of 25 percent.
The more insulin sensitive the cells were, the less myostatin the mens muscle cells produced.
The correlation was less pronounced after the men had trained for a half year, but it was still there.
Cardio training in most studies will go at the expense of muscle strength in athletes. There are a few studies in which this is not the case. In those trials, the cardio workout is negligible so to speak,
just like in the Canadian study. There is even a study where subjects who strength-trained,
built up more lean body mass also did very low intensity cardio .
Coincidence?
English version http://www.ergo-log.com/
Link to study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20386333
The less muscle myostatin your muscles produces, the greater your muscle mass will be.
Hence the common interest of doctors, sports scientists and the meat industry for finding ways to reduce the production of myostatin. Scientists from the University of Calgary in Canada discovered a new one: low-intensive cardio workout.
Since biologists are aware that ''megabeefsuppliers'' like the Belgian Blue owe their monstrous muscle thanks to a faulty gene for myostatin, myostatin is quite hot in the bio-medical community.
Pharmaceutical companies do tests on people with myostatinblockers, the supplement industry - albeit ineffectively - advertise with myostatin-inhibiting marketed supplements and officials have already begun working on a way to detect myostatin usage, that will certainly emerge in the sport. If they have not done so already.
Less is publicized about research into natural ways to inhibit myostatin.
Except for a medium like this website. Our readers already know that muscle myostatin will be reduced if you dont have a excessive fat stores in your body and some adrenaline-like compounds inhibit myostatin, like the familiar creatine. Moreover, they know that training with weights inhibits the production of myostatin. And a quiet paddle on a bike, we know thanks to the Canadian study published shortly in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, does so aswell.
The Canadians used 10 men with onsetting diabetes and let them cycle in a gym for a 6 months for the study.
The men needed to burn 1200 calories at an intensity of 40-55 percent of their maximum oxygen uptake.So Intensity is incredibly low. You can carry on a conversation with ease.
But that intensity was enough to illicit a hefty reduction of production of myostatin in the mens muscles.
Below you see how much myostatin, the researchers found in the mens muscles.
You are looking at the relationship between myostatin and muscle protein alpha-actin. The very low intensity training resulted in a reduction of 37 percent.
In the blood the amount of myostatin reduced from 28.7 to 22.8 ng / ml.
This represents a reduction of 25 percent.
The more insulin sensitive the cells were, the less myostatin the mens muscle cells produced.
The correlation was less pronounced after the men had trained for a half year, but it was still there.
Cardio training in most studies will go at the expense of muscle strength in athletes. There are a few studies in which this is not the case. In those trials, the cardio workout is negligible so to speak,
just like in the Canadian study. There is even a study where subjects who strength-trained,
built up more lean body mass also did very low intensity cardio .
Coincidence?
English version http://www.ergo-log.com/
Link to study http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20386333
