Did you read the articles yourself or are you just repeating on someone elses comments? I think someone has been commenting on them without understanding them and gave you the wrong impression of what they actually said.
Long term ephedrine or Clen use will inhibit Type-I MHC expression. It will also inhibit the desired increase in Glut -4 expression, and can negatively effect heart function. Like I said, there are the chronic effects. Taking a stimulant only immediately before an even is a different animal.
Here are some references explaining this chronic effect:
1: Kearns CF, McKeever KH.
Clenbuterol diminishes aerobic performance in horses.
Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2002 Dec;34(12):1976-85.
2: Ingalls CP, Barnes WS, Smith SB.
Interaction between clenbuterol and run training: effects on exercise performance and MLC isoform content.
J Appl Physiol. 1996 Mar;80(3):795-801.
3. Duncan , N. D., D. A. Williams , and G. S. Lynch . Deleterious effects of chronic clenbuterol treatment on endurance and sprint exercise performance in rats. Clin. Sci. 98: 339-347, 2000.
4: Torgan CE, Etgen GJ Jr, Brozinick JT Jr, Wilcox RE, Ivy JL.
Interaction of aerobic exercise training and clenbuterol: effects on insulin-resistant muscle.
J Appl Physiol. 1993 Oct;75(4):1471-6.
5: Kuo CH, Ding Z, Ivy JL.
Interaction of exercise training and clenbuterol on GLUT-4 protein in muscle of obese Zucker rats.
Am J Physiol. 1996 Nov;271(5 Pt 1):E847-54.
6: Sleeper MM, Kearns CF, McKeever KH.
Chronic clenbuterol administration negatively alters cardiac function. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2002 Apr;34(4):643-50.
7: Yaspelkis BB 3rd, Castle AL, Ding Z, Ivy JL.
Attenuating the decline in ATP arrests the exercise training-induced increases
in muscle GLUT4 protein and citrate synthase activity.
Acta Physiol Scand. 1999 Jan;165(1):71-9.