✨🧬 HOW TO MAXIMIZE ATHLETIC & WORKOUT PERFORMANCE THROUGH... THE POWERS OF MAGNESIUM 🧬✨
Read everything, i’ll share with you a protocol + a biohack to enhance workout performance at the end
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So today’s ⚽️ training menu included:
A 2 hour, ⚽️ session including sprinting, agility & explosiveness work in the morning.
DELICIOUS!
Ngl I was DEAD after it, went directly to my fridge for kefir.
However... PM gym session was pending...
I thot that the workout would be a “go thru the motions”, fatiguing
And more exhausting than usual type of workout
But holy!
I FELT LIKE GODDAMN ZEUS!!!!! Felt EVEN MORE stronger, lighter, agile-er & more energized than usual.
I attribute this to a single change I did in my preworkout formula:
Not cacao. Not kefir. Not maca. Not MCTs. It was...
MAGNESIUM!
The most VITAL & IMPRESCINDIBLE nutrient for you, ATHLETE.
In this thread you’ll discover how to MAXX your performance with MAGNESIUM and...
6 ways MAG SKYROCKETS your ATHLETICISM.
Enjoy it.
1. GLYCOGEN BOOST 🍯
As we know, Anaerobic exercise (lifting, sprints,,, explosive shit) demands a lot of glycogen.
However, it’s rapidly depleted during the acute phase of exercise, and your body NEEDS MORE FUEL.
Your liver donates it’s glycogen reserves and triggers gluconeogenesis; blood flow carries them to your MUSCLES.
That Glucose gets INTO your muscle cells thx to GLUT-4; the main glucose transporter in your muscles.
GLUT-4 expression SKYROCKETS during & after exercise in order to fulfill the HIGH GLUCOSE DEMAND
No GLUT-4, no party after muscle glycogen is depleted.
Keep reading. Here’s where MAGNESIUM COMES IN
Mg IMPROVES GLUT-4 expression AND modulates insulin activity in the GLUT-4 receptor.
This allows MORE GLUCOSE to get into your muscles, hence,
allowing GREATER GLYCOGEN STORES = more fuel = BETTER PERFORMANCE.
BUT If you’re deficient on Mag? Your GLUT 4 activity DECREASES.
Now... pay close attention to this:
Some subjects received MgSO4 (Mg Sulfate) as a “preworkout”, some not.
THOSE WHO RECEIVED MAGNESIUM?
HAD A TWO FOLD (400% V 800%!) HIGHER MUSCLE GLYCOGEN CONTENT.
TWO FUCKING FOLD
omg statues can speak 😳😱
2. LACTATE BUILDUP - DELAYED! ⏰
ah yes, our good friend lactate, very responsible for that “burn” you get during ANAEROBIC exercises (deadlift, pull ups, squats, sprints)
but... how do you produce it?
You see, the reason you feel the “burn” in exercises such as a squat, a curl, or a circuit, is because LACTATE is a BYPRODUCT of glucose utilization.
When your fast twitch muscle fibers use glucose, that glucose gets oxidized INTO PYRUVATE
Then, PYRUVATE gets converted into....
LACTATE, faster than your body can handle it.
This increases lactate concentrations, hence, THE BURN! Sinple really
The more glucose you use? The more lactate you will produce.
(this is why being a mtabolic flexible athltee is VITAL. thread on this later)
Now, keep reading...
Imagine if YOU could delay the LACTATE BUILDUP. if you could workout LONGER (and better) without “BURNING”...
sounds like a dream... how could you do that....
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
EXACTLY WITH MOTHAGUCKING MAGNESUIM
In the same@paper , magnesium DELAYED MUSCLE LACTATE RISE for...
45 MINUTES during the SAME EXERCISE INTENSITY!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!
you’d still be sprinting & running while your opponents are drowning in lactate
On another note,
Lactate function goes way beyond than only the “burn” - Induces BDNF, regulates the CNS, and is a FUEL for your brain.
A lot of the cognitive benefits from exercise are thanks to lactate. Man i love this molecule
“Lactate is the most important gluconeogwnic precursor in the body. About 30% of ALL GLUCOSE USED IN EXERCISE, comes from recycling lactate to glucose”
Amazing.
ps: lactate is NOT 100% responsible 4 the burn, hydrogen ions accumulating, calcium, inflammation, ALSO CONTRIBUTE
3. MITOCHONDRIAL IMPROVEMENT 🧬
Thnks to the oxygen demand & oxidative stress from exercise, your MITOCHONDRIA ALSO BREAKS DOWN -not only your muscle fibers-.
This will trigger the “MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS” route.
A self-renewal route where NEW & STRONGER mitochondria are -
created from the already existing ones.
This increases your mitochondrial:
- Oxidative phosphorylation capacity (hence a faster & better ATP production)
- “oxidative stress treshold”; they can handle more oxidative stress without breaking down
- and how fast they+you recover
Like muscle protein synthesis BUT for your MITOCHONDRIA.
However, most enzymes & proteins in this process...
- NEED MAGNESIUM TO WORK (cofactor)
For ex, the efficacy of the DNA Ligase III group (enzymes; repair mtDNA), is HIGHLY DEPENDANT ON MAGNESIUM
DNA Ligases follow a 3 step process, specifically, 3 phosphoryl transfers. These 3 "steps" need Magnesium as a cofactor. Low magnesium = low DNA ligase efficacy = shitty repair = shitty mitochondrial biogenesis
(DNA Ligase repairing ADN terrific right)
NO MAGNESIUM = SHITTY MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS
= SHITTY MITOCHONDRIAL GAINZ.
YOU’LL PROGRESS SLOWER WITHOUT MAG.
YOUR ENDURANCE, STRENGTH & OVERALL FITNESS WONT PROGRSES AS YOU DESERVE
FUCK THAT.
improving your mitochondria is CRITICAL for cognition, energy, athleticism, longevity and definitely for just feeling better.
Remember: Improve your mitochondria and you'll improve how much energy you will create and use from food. (and how well you fight the 🦠).
4. ATP & ENERGY PRODUCTION
ah yes, ATP. the energy currency of the cell, the fuel used during the first seconds of exercise.
those first warm up drills? that sprint to the school bus? when you start running after you robbed the bank?
USE SOLELY STORED ATP! however...
ATP is useless without Magnesium. What we call ATP, in reality, it's a ATP+magnesium complex. ATP must bind to a magnesium ion to be biologically active, creating Mg+2-ATP.
Do you realize that your cell's energy currency is "useless" without magnesium? Your cells don't work efficiently without it. Literally your body depends on magnesium to work.
Another point is energy metabolism. We know that many of the enzymes in gluconeogenesis AND -
- in cellular respiration (ATP production process) are VERY sensitive to magnesium, but specifically the glycolytic enzymes and the enzymes in Krebs.
A lot of the Krebs enzymes NEED MAGNESIUM TO WORK; Isocitrate dehydrogenase, a-Ketoglutarate (!!!), 2-oxoglutarate,
For ex, isocitrate dehydrogenase regulates how fast the isocitrate (a citrate isomer) loses a carbon to form the five-carbon molecule α-ketoglutarate, through oxidative DECARBOxilation
If there’s no mag?
This enzyme IS DOWNREGULATED.
Low magnesium = slower energy metabolism. FUCK THAT, YOU WANT A FAST ATP PRODUCTION EVEN IF YOU DEPLETE IT ALL.
You achieve that with magnesium.
Magnesium is VITAL for mitochondrial health, I mean mitochondria are your magnesium intracellular stores. That should tell you something.
I'll end this point with this based quote: "Energy production depends upon cellular Mg status, since Mg-ATP is the direct molecule used in all physical activities."
5. RECOVERY 😴 (Sleep, Stress, Parasympathetic NS)
Read carefully, bcos if you’re serious about your progress in fitness / as an athlete/bodybuilder/whatever...
Your recovery MUST be perfect. And by recovery I don't mean "oh bro don't train the same muscle every -
- day!!" "bro you must rest 48hrs before hitting the same muscle again bro"
Bullshit.
REAL recovery will give you the strength & energy you need to do that.
And most of you know that magnesium is vital for recovery, but, you dont know the HOW.
let's discover it. 😈
We know that you, as an athlete, will have an excess of Oxidative Stress (inflammation), and it must be countered by your all mighty ANTIOXIDANT NETWORK:
If you're feeling more fatigued & sore than normal?
It means that ur antioxidant network isn’t handling the oxidative stress pretty well; your inflammation is rising. You’ll solve it with...
MAGNESIUM!
A deficiency increases directly ALL INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES (hence soreness & fatigue) AND indirectly through increasing NF-kB
(extra: inflammation reduces GLUT4; mgdef athletes are fucked LOL)
Nuclear Factor Kappa B is a genetic pathway that induces the activity of inflammatory cytokines,
commands to your immune system to "INFLAME EVERYTHING"; starts/RISES inflammation.
Also, Mg INCREASES YOUR ANTIOXIDANT NETWORK
"MgD (deficiency) was accompanied by a TWO FOLD decrease in GLUTATHIONE concentration in Red Blood Cells"
Just by being MgD you have TWO FOLD less glutathione, your MASTER ANTIOXIDANT. Makes you an easy prey for inflammation = FATIGUE
There are more ways a MgD increases OS & poor workout recovery, but the mentioned are the main ones.
tells your adrenals to produce cortisol, stress hormone)
-mg def. creates stress & a vicious cycle
-overactive nervous system, mucho calcio poco magnesio (calcium = excitatory)
6. CRAMPS
“sorry coach i can’t continue, i just had a cramp"
SHUT UP. Just SHUT THE FUCK UP. Will you let a cramp stop you?
If you’re on this side of twitter, I know that you won’t, so, read carefully, because MAGNESIUM is vital for a smooth & perfect muscle contraction.
FLEX A MUSCLE. NOW. FLEX IT. FEEL THE CONTRACTION.
OK KEEP FLEXING IT. YOUR MUSCLE IS FLOODED NOW WITH CALCIUM.
CALCIUM IS A EXCITATORY MINERAL, IT ONLY ENTERS THE CELL FOR EXCITATORY/IMPULSIVE FUNCTIONS, LIKE A MUSCLE CONTRACTION.
Now stop flexing it. If you didn’t have a cramp? Congrats! Magnesium did it’s job effectively!
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Magnesium helps active transporters to pump Ca out of your cell. BUT!
Low magnesium PREVENTS Ca pumps activity. This unables them to flush out calcium;
So in summary, Cramps = TOO MUCH Ca and/or LOW Mg. (potassium is important too btw)
Also, the availability of glycogen has been shown to be related to the ability of the sarcoplasmic reticulum to release calcium. And what controls that ability?
Magnesium. Your muscles glucose availability depends on Magnesium. This -ALSO- explains the YUGE glucose increase we saw on the point uno
7- CONCLUSIONS
You want to add MAGNESIUM in your POST and PRE WORKOUT.
We saw that MAG is needed DURING the workout (energy, cramps, lactate, glucose) and AFTER (glucose “absorption”, lactate, mitochondria, recovery)
So, how much?
I’ve found 1.5g of MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE IS THE PERFECT DOSE BOTH FOR not only for me, but for others as well.
500mg of Magnesium Chloride (MgCl) has 60-70mg of ELEMENTAL MAGNESIUM. The elemental quantity of a mineral is what you should focus on.
However...
Everyone is different. EXPERIMENT. SEE FOR YOURSELF.
Start with 1g of MgCl for BOTH the PRE and POST workout.
I’ll actualize the Mag Forms thread ASAP, since i’ve discovered new OP forms. Stay tuned
Other KEY nutrients for you, athlete: Cholesterol, B1, B5 (all b vitamins tbh), Vit. D, SUNLIGHT!!!!!!!!, Zinc, Copper, Sodium (from a HIGH QUALITY SOURCE like redmond salt),
Probiotics (you're eating lots of food & maybe carbs, you want a good gut to process all that), and if you’re following a very high carb diet (which i don't recommend), consume Apple Cider Vinegar.
That was all for dis thread. RT it. Spread knowledge. DOUBTS = DM