Abstract: Objective: Understanding the theory of muscle glycogen super-compensation and its application. Methods: This paper systematically reviewed and demonstrated from an intrascience history perspective the origin and research progress of muscle glycogen super-compensation. Results: It has been revealed and confirmed that long-term intensive exercise and reasonable diet play an important role in both promoting muscle glycogen super-compensation and providing references for sports training and competition. Conclusion: Muscle glycogen super-compensation can be used as one of the references for both adaptability to long-term mediate/high intensive endurance training and regulation of competition quality.

Key words: super-compensation, muscle glycogen, endurance training, training adaptation