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Exercise activates AMPK in skeletal muscle through mechanisms involving both LKB1-dependent (energy stress) and LKB1-independent (calcium-dependent) pathways, with the degree of activation depending on the intensity and type of exercise relative to the individual's fitness level.
Exercise activates your body's energy sensor (AMPK). However, your body adapts to the specific type of exercise you do. If you only do endurance training, strength training might be needed to trigger a strong AMPK response, and vice versa. Varying your exercise types can help maintain metabolic sensitivity.
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Another key metabolic stress that activates AMPK is exercise or contraction in skeletal muscle... The degree of activation of AMPK seems to be dependent on the level of metabolic stress caused by the contraction. For example, prior endurance training reduces the effect of the same intensity of exercise... AMPK has also been found to be activated by strength exercise in endurance-trained humans, and by endurance exercise in strength-trained humans, but not vice versa.
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Review paper citing multiple primary studies on exercise physiology.
Source
AMP‐activated protein kinase – development of the energy sensor concept
D. Grahame Hardie et al. · The Journal of Physiology · 2006
DOI 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.108944
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