A couple nights a week I get some extra time to do nothing but spending time researching a particular area of training that interested me at the moment so I thought I’d share a particular interesting piece of reserach I came across when doing so tonight. On this particular night, I’ ve been rearching the area of cellular plasticity in response to various training protocols and ended up finding a very interesting review on the “Molecular Bases of Training and Adaptation.”
What made it particular relevant is that it supports the premise of a presentation I’ll be giving at an upcoming seminar in Virginia at the University of Richmond on Energy Systems. This is an area I’ve becoming increasingly interested in lately and a topic I’ve spent a great deal of time on over the years and I discussed it quite a bit in my book, but some of my views have evolved a bit since then so when I get around to revising the book, I’ll make a few changes here and there. If I could sit around all the time and do nothing but research, I probably would.
In any event, rather than just telling everyone what the review says, I thought I’d just attach it for everyone to download and read for themselves. Feel free to post your comments and discuss. If you want to hear me lecture on the topic, check out the seminar next month by clicking on the link I posted above.
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Great Review Joel.
In another review I have been reading from may 2010 they spoke of other ways that PGC-1a can be activated to achieve aerobic adaptations. Interesting concepts.
Once scientists get all the molecular signaling unraveled it’s just a matter of time before they’ll figure out how to amplify the signaling or turn it on and off without actually having to train. It will be a whole new level of performance enhancing drugs.
Jordan, feel free to post a link to the other review if you have it available…
I know what you mean Joel, but saying this “Once scientists get all the molecular signaling unraveled …” is simply an over-simplification of the problem. Because in science, the more you know, the less you know. Signaling pathways are way more complicated than what we think.
Old post now but interesting to see the developments in this area of sports science, nice simple paper here on some easy nutritional timing means you can use to maximise gene expression or response to certain types of training.
http://www.gssiweb.org/Article/sse-115-new-ideas-about-nutrition-and-the-adaptation-to-endurance-training