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Perspectives #19: Adaptation, Signaling, and Performance, with Andy Coggan

Empirical Cycling Podcast

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How Much Does Muscle Protein Synthesis Go Up in the Next Few Hours?

Bob Wolf's argument was basically well training studies are too hard to do but we can do acute studies and they'll be predictive. It turns out these acute changes in muscle protein synthesis are not at all predictive of the adaptations that occur over weeks and months. You know if you start devising or training program and altering it based on signaling and predictors there's a perfect example of why you might go off the rails.

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