I have written a couple previous posts about inflammation and muscle. I wrote how subjects with the lowest intial levels of inflammation gained the most muscle here . I wrote about how adding weightlifting to low-level inflammation may not be a good idea here .
Now a new study test these ideas. It's a rat study, but it's a start. The authors wanted to design a resistance training program that would not aggravate any existing low-level inflammation. They used a low-frequency (twice per week), low volume approach. The focus was on the concentric or positive portion of each lift.
The protocol downregulated inflammatory markers while increasing muscle mass. That sounds like a win-win situation to me.
Also, this study follows up on a similar study done by the same authors. In the previous study, they used the same protocol and hoped their results could be "reproduced in situations where skeletal muscle hypertrophy is desired but high mechanical stimuli of skeletal muscle and inflammation are not."
I'm looking forward to more research along these lines.
I have written a couple previous posts about inflammation and muscle. I wrote how subjects with the lowest intial levels of inflammation gained the most muscle here . I wrote about how adding weightlifting to low-level inflammation may not be a good idea here .
Now a new study test these ideas. It's a rat study, but it's a start. The authors wanted to design a resistance training program that would not aggravate any existing low-level inflammation. They used a low-frequency (twice per week), low volume approach. The focus was on the concentric or positive portion of each lift.
The protocol downregulated inflammatory markers while increasing muscle mass. That sounds like a win-win situation to me.
Also, this study follows up on a similar study done by the same authors. In the previous study, they used the same protocol and hoped their results could be "reproduced in situations where skeletal muscle hypertrophy is desired but high mechanical stimuli of skeletal muscle and inflammation are not."
I'm looking forward to more research along these lines.