PMID- 31046515 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200914 LR - 20200914 IS - 1522-1601 (Electronic) IS - 0161-7567 (Linking) VI - 126 IP - 6 DP - 2019 Jun 1 TI - Graded reductions in preexercise muscle glycogen impair exercise capacity but do not augment skeletal muscle cell signaling: implications for CHO periodization. PG - 1587-1597 LID - 10.1152/japplphysiol.00913.2018 [doi] AB - We examined the effects of graded muscle glycogen on exercise capacity and modulation of skeletal muscle signaling pathways associated with the regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis. In a repeated-measures design, eight men completed a sleep-low, train-low model comprising an evening glycogen-depleting cycling protocol followed by an exhaustive exercise capacity test [8 x 3 min at 80% peak power output (PPO), followed by 1-min efforts at 80% PPO until exhaustion] the subsequent morning. After glycogen-depleting exercise, subjects ingested a total of 0 g/kg (L-CHO), 3.6 g/kg (M-CHO), or 7.6 g/kg (H-CHO) of carbohydrate (CHO) during a 6-h period before sleeping, such that exercise was commenced the next morning with graded (P < 0.05) muscle glycogen concentrations (means +/- SD: L-CHO: 88 +/- 43, M-CHO: 185 +/- 62, H-CHO: 278 +/- 47 mmol/kg dry wt). Despite differences (P < 0.05) in exercise capacity at 80% PPO between trials (L-CHO: 18 +/- 7, M-CHO: 36 +/- 3, H-CHO: 44 +/- 9 min), exercise induced comparable AMPK(Thr172) phosphorylation (~4-fold) and PGC-1alpha mRNA expression (~5-fold) after exercise and 3 h after exercise, respectively. In contrast, neither exercise nor CHO availability affected the phosphorylation of p38MAPK(Thr180/Tyr182) or CaMKII(Thr268) or mRNA expression of p53, Tfam, CPT-1, CD36, or PDK4. Data demonstrate that when exercise is commenced with muscle glycogen < 300 mmol/kg dry wt, further graded reductions of 100 mmol/kg dry weight impair exercise capacity but do not augment skeletal muscle cell signaling. NEW & NOTEWORTHY We provide novel data demonstrating that when exercise is commenced with muscle glycogen below 300 mmol/kg dry wt (as achieved with the sleep-low, train-low model) further graded reductions in preexercise muscle glycogen of 100 mmol/kg dry wt reduce exercise capacity at 80% peak power output by 20-50% but do not augment skeletal muscle cell signaling. FAU - Hearris, Mark A AU - Hearris MA AD - Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , Liverpool , United Kingdom. FAU - Hammond, Kelly M AU - Hammond KM AD - Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , Liverpool , United Kingdom. FAU - Seaborne, Robert A AU - Seaborne RA AD - Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , Liverpool , United Kingdom. FAU - Stocks, Ben AU - Stocks B AD - Medial Research Council-Arthritis Research UK Centre for Musculoskeletal Aging Research, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham , Birmingham , United Kingdom. FAU - Shepherd, Sam O AU - Shepherd SO AD - Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , Liverpool , United Kingdom. FAU - Philp, Andrew AU - Philp A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3860-4136 AD - Medial Research Council-Arthritis Research UK Centre for Musculoskeletal Aging Research, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham , Birmingham , United Kingdom. AD - Diabetes and Metabolism Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research , Sydney, New South Wales , Australia. FAU - Sharples, Adam P AU - Sharples AP AD - Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , Liverpool , United Kingdom. AD - Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Guy Hilton Research Centre , Stoke-on-Trent , United Kingdom. FAU - Morton, James P AU - Morton JP AD - Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , Liverpool , United Kingdom. FAU - Louis, Julien B AU - Louis JB AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9109-0958 AD - Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University , Liverpool , United Kingdom. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190502 PL - United States TA - J Appl Physiol (1985) JT - Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) JID - 8502536 RN - 0 (Dietary Carbohydrates) RN - 9005-79-2 (Glycogen) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Dietary Carbohydrates/metabolism MH - Exercise/*physiology MH - Exercise Test/methods MH - Exercise Tolerance/*physiology MH - Glycogen/*metabolism MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Muscle, Skeletal/*metabolism MH - Organelle Biogenesis MH - Phosphorylation/physiology MH - Physical Endurance/*physiology MH - Signal Transduction/*physiology MH - Young Adult OTO - NOTNLM OT - exercise capacity OT - mitochondrial biogenesis OT - muscle glycogen OT - train low, sleep low EDAT- 2019/05/03 06:00 MHDA- 2020/09/15 06:00 CRDT- 2019/05/04 06:00 PHST- 2019/05/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/09/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/05/04 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1152/japplphysiol.00913.2018 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Appl Physiol (1985). 2019 Jun 1;126(6):1587-1597. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00913.2018. Epub 2019 May 2.