When you push your muscles to their absolute limit with heavy lifting, your muscles quickly pull in more sugar and turn it into a form that helps them keep working hard — like revving up a battery to keep going.

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Muscle metabolism during intense, heavy-resistance exercise

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1986

The study had athletes do super hard weightlifting until they couldn’t do another rep, and found their muscles suddenly had 10 times more sugar and 4 times more of a key sugar-derivative — exactly what the claim says happens to fuel energy during intense lifting.

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Muscle metabolism during intense, heavy-resistance exercise

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DOI: 10.1007/bf00422734

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