Derek Beast Charlebois - Effects Of Long Term Participation In Endurance Exercises.

**webmaster** · 02-23-2005, 05:40 PM

Long-term participation in endurance exercise leads to skeletal muscle adaptations, which occur by altering transcription of exercise-responsive genes. This article takes an in depth look.

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/beast1.htm

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forklift · 02-24-2005, 01:50 AM

anyone care to translate this article into english

**webmaster** · 02-24-2005, 07:49 AM

LOL. It is VERY scientific. I had a hard time formatting, editing and adding features into it. And that is after 4 years of doing this!

Will
Webmaster

**Beast** · 02-24-2005, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by forklift

anyone care to translate this article into english

From the article:
"AMPK serves to make one's body more efficient in producing ATP. It does this by increasing glucose uptake (GLUT-4 translocation and gene expression) and insulin sensitivity, promoting fatty acid oxidation and mitochondria biogenesis, as well as a host of other effects. The adaptations caused by AMPK make the body more efficient in producing ATP and therefore survival."

So basically AMPK activation causes your body increase fat burning while sparing glucose. This is one reason why low carb, UD2, and other carb manipulation diets work well.

**Beast** · 02-24-2005, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by webmaster

LOL. It is VERY scientific. I had a hard time formatting, editing and adding features into it. And that is after 4 years of doing this!

Will
Webmaster

I haven't written an article in a while, so I had to come back with a bang

BTW, Could you change the article title to "Exercise and AMPK Activation"
AMPK is activated by Sprints and other anaerobic exercise, so the title doesn't fit. Thanks!

**str8flexed** · 03-02-2005, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by forklift

anyone care to translate this article into english

read it a few times... it will make sense.

And it's much better than alot of those crappy articles that come out these days.

Basically AMPK is the energy senser of the cell. During workouts ATP (your energy currency) gets low and this activates AMPK. AMPK activates a bunch of other machinery (enzymes) that increase fat burning and glucose uptake.

I noticed you didn't mention it's effect on mTOR. Left out that little bit did ya Derek!