20 women were recruited to determine whether consuming fat - free milk versus iso - energetic
carbohydrate after resistance exercise would see gains in lean mass and reductions in fat mass at the same time.
Not exact matches
A review investigated the evidence on protein,
resistance exercise and their combined effects on skeletal muscle hypertrophy and found that supplementing with either whey protein alone or with
carbohydrate after exercise, and possibly before and during, improved muscle hypertrophy.
One study from the Journal of Nutrition found that the ingestion of both protein and
carbohydrates (0.15 grams of both per kilogram of body mass) prior to a bout of
resistance exercise increased protein synthesis (anabolism) by 48 per cent during
exercise, and an additional 19 per cent
after exercise.
A study in 2015 found that a combination of whey protein and
resistance exercise was more effective at reducing body fat than taking
carbohydrates after exercise (a common practice)(8).
One study, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, has found that consuming milk
after resistance exercise leads to greater muscle hypertrophy, a greater increase in lean body mass, and a greater decline in body fat than consumption of a soy beverage with macronutrient (proteins,
carbohydrates, fats) ratios equal to that of the milk.
Hartman J, Tang J, Wilkinson S, Tarnopolsky M, Lawrence R, Fullerton A, Phillips S. Consumption of fat - free fluid milk
after resistance exercise promotes greater lean mass accretion than does consumption of soy or
carbohydrate in young, novice, male weightlifters.
Co-ingestion of
carbohydrate and whey protein increases fasted rates of muscle protein synthesis immediately
after resistance exercise in rats.