Phillips lab at McMaster university churns these studies out!
Concurrent resistance and aerobic exercise stimulates both myofibrillar and mitochondrial protein synthesis in sedentary middle-aged men
Here they look at the impact of :
The way that I read it is that doing both together is equivalent in effect - in most measures they were looking at, protein synthesis in the muscles mainly) to doing either resistance exercise or aerobic exercise.
Questions for discussion....
Concurrent resistance and aerobic exercise stimulates both myofibrillar and mitochondrial protein synthesis in sedentary middle-aged men
Here they look at the impact of :
- resistance training alone;
- aerobic exercise alone; and
- resistance exercise and aerobic exercise together;
The way that I read it is that doing both together is equivalent in effect - in most measures they were looking at, protein synthesis in the muscles mainly) to doing either resistance exercise or aerobic exercise.
Questions for discussion....
- Why was the resistance exercise 8 sets of 8 reps? Why not something simpler?
- What is more time efficient?
- Why do they always pick leg extensions?
Comments
Q. Why was the resistance exercise 8 sets of 8 reps? Why not something simpler?
A. Stuart Phillips has published a paper with Richard Winett arguing that simple uncomplicated routines shuld be examined first i.e. single set HIT, before beginning to change the variables. My assumption is that a more simple method wasn't used due to Phillips not being heavily invovled in the actual work (hence second to last name on the paper), though could be wrong.
Q What is more time efficient?
A. Hehe, we all know the answer to that.
Q. Why do they always pick leg extensions?
A. Usually as its the most easily controllable exercise requiring a very small amount of skill development from any trainees and because the most common dynamometers used for muscular testing that are commercially available and in most labs are leg extensions. Also biopsy samples are to my knowledge most easily attainable from the quadriceps (and likely the most common place that volunteers are happy to agree to having a huge needle stuck into them).
My reading is that the did 8x8, or 40 minutes of cycling, or 4x8 + 20 minutes of cycling.
Interesting is that RE+AE seemed to activate more resistance related synthesis, than RE alone.
That sort of blows the common theory that AE, interferes with Resistance training.
My biases were coming out there ;-)
by the way, just saw this similar study:
https://www.thieme-connect.com/ejournals/abstract/sportsmed/doi/10.1055/s-0031-1295475