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Endurance exercise, but not resistance exercise, significantly enhances the phosphorylation of proteins responsible for glucose transport (AS160) and glycogen synthesis (Glycogen Synthase) during the early recovery period.

If you are trying to improve how your muscles handle glucose or replenish glycogen stores after a workout, endurance exercise is the more effective stimulus in the immediate recovery period. Resistance training, while great for muscle structure, does not trigger these specific glucose-handling signals as strongly in the first hour.

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Conversely, enhanced phosphorylation status of proteins that promote glucose transport and glycogen synthesis only occurred after endurance exercise.
Donny M. Camera et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2010

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Clear divergence in results between groups with statistical significance (P<0.05) for specific markers.

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Early Time Course of Akt Phosphorylation after Endurance and Resistance Exercise

Donny M. Camera et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2010

DOI 10.1249/mss.0b013e3181d964e4

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