Carb question

[Mike_Rojas]

Would it be effective to eat a low carb diet and every other day or so have a bowl of oatmeal betweeen meals to replenish your your gycogen stores?

 

[chewyxrage]

Just eat the oatmeal an hour before your workout

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Mike, I would either run a CKD or a TKD, rather than just low carbs with a carb up eod. The beauty of the keto diet is the protien sparing effect of the ketos. If you do not stay in ketosis most of the time, you do not get the anti-catabolic effects of the deit, and risk losing muscle mass.

 

[Mike_Rojas]

Thanks for the replies. I've heard of CKD, but TKD is new to me. From what I read, you just eat 25-50 grams of carbs 30-60 minutes before or immediately after your workout. That sounds like something that would work for me.

 

[Mr.X]

Would it be effective to eat a low carb diet and every other day or so have a bowl of oatmeal betweeen meals to replenish your your gycogen stores?

It is very feasible:

check out: www.MMSFitness.com
go to: Mr.X's Articles Section

You'll see my article on carb-cycling where I talk about in details as to the terms of low carb/high carb cycling. Overall, this all depends on your goals; you can do a very clean bulk with high caloric intakes for shot periods of time followed by low caloric intakes for short periods of time. Example, weight x 18 for 2 days, weight x 10 for 1 day etc...

Mr.X

 

[Mr.X]

Thanks for the replies. I've heard of CKD, but TKD is new to me. From what I read, you just eat 25-50 grams of carbs 30-60 minutes before or immediately after your workout. That sounds like something that would work for me.

If it's new for you, then I would suggest against just jumping into it. You do have the right idea, CKD is a 6 day no/low carb diet w/ high fat moderate protein/1day carb-up high carb mod protein low fat. TKD is the same as CKD but w/o a carb up and it replaces the carbup w/ before or after workout carbs (like dextrose).

Mr.X

 

[Mike_Rojas]

Thanks for the info Mr. X.