Picking The Right Muscle Fuel

April 7th, 2009

In order to build muscle and to enable your muscles to work hard you need to provide them with the right fuel.  Your muscle cells, just like any other type of cell, run on a high-energy compound known as adenosine triphosphate (ATP).  This is one of the energy modules and it makes muscles contract, it conducts the nerve impulses, and helps to promote other cellular energy processes.  Muscles can make this ATP by combining oxygen with nutrients from food, mainly by using carbohydrate.  Fat is also used by muscles as fuel, but this cab only be broken down when oxygen is present.  In an ideal world muscles prefer to burn carbohydrate, store fat, and use the protein for growth and repair.

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