We are scrutinizing of the ways to achive a maximal anabolic environment as soon as possible.

Its not really a matter of IF glucose can replenish glycogen, because yes it can. However, there i a rather strong association with liver glycogen and its capcity to kick out some of those anabolic hormones. Sure you can just eat glucose/starch and let your liver starv for a while until your muscle tissue has satisfied itself more or less. this means that all the fructose you ingest at this time will be directed in to resynthsizing liver glycogen and the the glucose and starches are directed to muscle. Fructose must travel to the liver and be converted into a useable form. Glycogen stores are a very anabolic mechanism both in muscle and the liver.

You muscle will have been depleted to a much greater extent than your liver afterweight training and therefor have a priority over the liver. things move from a high concentration to a low concentration, so muscle will be sucking up the glucose from the blood. You body works mainly off of concentration gradients and osmolarity. If you've got elevated insulin levels-due to a pre-workout meal containing carbohydrate-blood glucose is going to play a more significant role (due to subdued lipolysis) and liver glycogenolysis will kick up its production a bit.Īfter a intense work out, your muscle are highly sensitive to insulin an glucose is readily distributed into the blood and taken up veryquickly by muscle.

If you're in the process of dieting and you're very much depleted of muscle glycogen, then blood glucose and liver glycogen will likely play a greater role. Your nutritional status obviously plays a role here. Even in intense endurance exercise, muscle glycogen dominates as an energy source over liver glycogen (and blood glucose) but the latter is still being used to some extent. The main purpose of liver glycogen is to supply blood glucose and keep those levels constant. But like Eric said, there's not really a time when one source of fuel or one energy pathway is operating in unison. Muscle glycogen is the 'preferred' fuel during intense weight training.

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