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Dietary carbohydrate, muscle glycogen content, and endurance performance in well-trained women
1 Department of Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1; 2 Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5; and 3 Division of Clinical Chemistry, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge S-141 86, Sweden This study examine...
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Published in: | Journal of applied physiology (1985) 2000-06, Vol.88 (6), p.2151-2158 |
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Summary: | 1 Department of Human Biology and Nutritional
Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1;
2 Department of Medicine, McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5; and
3 Division of Clinical Chemistry, Huddinge
University Hospital, Huddinge S-141 86, Sweden
This study examined the ability of well-trained
eumenorrheic women to increase muscle glycogen content and endurance
performance in response to a high-carbohydrate diet (HCD; ~78%
carbohydrate) compared with a moderate-carbohydrate diet (MD; ~48%
carbohydrate) when tested during the luteal phase of the menstrual
cycle. Six women cycled to exhaustion at ~80% maximal oxygen uptake
( O 2 max ) after each
of the randomly assigned diet and exercise-tapering regimens. A biopsy
was taken from the vastus lateralis before and after exercise in each
trial. Preexercise muscle glycogen content was high after the MD (625.2 ± 50.1 mmol/kg dry muscle) and 13% greater after the HCD (709.0 ± 44.8 mmol/kg dry muscle). Postexercise muscle glycogen was low after
both trials (MD, 91.4 ± 34.5; HCD, 80.3 ± 19.5 mmol/kg dry muscle),
and net glycogen utilization during exercise was greater after the HCD.
The subjects also cycled longer at ~80%
O 2 max after the HCD
vs. MD (115:31 ± 10:47 vs. 106:35 ± 8:36 min:s, respectively). In
conclusion, aerobically trained women increased muscle glycogen content
in response to a high-dietary carbohydrate intake during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, but the magnitude was smaller than previously observed in men. The increase in muscle glycogen, and possibly liver glycogen, after the HCD was associated with increased cycling performance to volitional exhaustion at ~80%
O 2 max .
eumenorrhea; luteal phase; glycogen loading; muscle glycogen
supercompensation |
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ISSN: | 8750-7587 1522-1601 |
DOI: | 10.1152/jappl.2000.88.6.2151 |