Substrate Source Use in Older, Trained Males after Decades of Endurance Training
Male
0301 basic medicine
Aging
0303 health sciences
Rest
Fatty Acids, Nonesterified
Middle Aged
Lipid Metabolism
03 medical and health sciences
Cross-Sectional Studies
Physical Fitness
Exercise Test
Physical Endurance
Humans
Energy Metabolism
Muscle, Skeletal
Glycogen
DOI:
10.1249/mss.0b013e3181572ace
Publication Date:
2009-03-05T02:46:01Z
AUTHORS (7)
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to compare substrate source use in older, long-term exercising, endurance-trained males with sedentary controls.[U-C]palmitate and [6,6-H2]glucose tracers were applied to assess plasma free fatty acid (FFA) and glucose oxidation rates, and to estimate muscle- and/or lipoprotein-derived triacylglycerol (TG) and muscle glycogen use. Subjects were 10 long-term exercising, endurance-trained males and 10 sedentary controls (age 57 +/- 1 and 60 +/- 2 yr, respectively). Muscle biopsy samples were collected before and after exercise to assess muscle fiber type-specific intramyocellular lipid and glycogen content.During exercise, plasma palmitate Ra, Rd, and Rox were significantly greater in the trained subjects compared with the controls (Ra: 0.36 +/- 0.02 and 0.25 +/- 0.02; Rd: 0.36 +/- 0.03 and 0.24 +/- 0.02; Rox: 0.31 +/- 0.02 and 0.20 +/- 0.02 mmol.min, respectively, P < 0.01). This resulted in greater plasma FFA and total fat oxidation rates in the trained versus sedentary subjects (P < 0.001). Muscle- and/or lipoprotein-derived TG use contributed 10 +/- 2 and 11 +/- 3% in the trained and control groups, respectively (NS). No significant net changes in muscle fiber lipid content were observed.Older, endurance-trained males oxidize more fat during moderate-intensity exercise than do sedentary controls. This greater total fat oxidation rate is attributed to a higher plasma FFA release, uptake, and oxidation rate. In contrast, intramyocellular triacylglycerol does not seem to represent a major substrate source during 1 h of moderate-intensity exercise in older trained or sedentary men.
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