Orange Juice in Post Workout Shake?

[Kabeetz]

I've been using fruit and milk and whey protein and sometimes raw oats in my post workout shake along with my multi and bcaas but I know that simple sugars are better post workout because of the faster absorption, so as a result I purchased tropicana and have been using 1 serving in my postworkout shake along with a banana and the 2 scoops of whey... is O.J. a good source for carbs after my workout?

(I don't drink it or any other simple carbs at any other point of the day due to the insulin spike)

 

[SgtSlaughter]

IMHO it's personal choice and whatever fits into your overall macros for the day.

personally I don't belive in the insulin spiking (or a "magic window" of opportunity Post Workout)... cuz i'd be a fat friggin' bastard if I did cuz my body LOVES storing fat

 

[ProtienFiend]

I've been using fruit and milk and whey protein and sometimes raw oats in my post workout shake along with my multi and bcaas but I know that simple sugars are better post workout because of the faster absorption, so as a result I purchased tropicana and have been using 1 serving in my postworkout shake along with a banana and the 2 scoops of whey... is O.J. a good source for carbs after my workout?

(I don't drink it or any other simple carbs at any other point of the day due to the insulin spike)

Not really... the potassium and vitamin C is beneficial though. There are probably better ways to get your post workout carbs though because fruit juice is mostly all fructose (doesnt spike insulin efficiently because it is processed in the liver).

 

[rocuhfella07]

Dextrose would be a better alternative. I use 30-50g's of Dextrose with a little Kool-Aid thrown in to flavor. Drink that on the way home from the gym. As soon as I walk in the door, 1/2 c. Oatmeal and 40-60g's Whey Isolate.

 

[MR. BMJ]

Orange juice and fruit are terrible choices for a post-workout drink (or high GI drink). They are full of High Fructose Corn Syrup, regular fructose, and the acidity can also slow down absorption. Fructose does a good job of filling up liver glycogen and not the muscles. The body can only metabolize so much fructose before it is synthesized into cholesterol and fatty acids and stored into the fat and liver cells (via pentose phosphate pathway).

A dextrose drink would be a better choice for your GI spike. If you do not buy your own dextrose, then lemon lime Gatorade powder has a high glucose reading per scoop, while having less HFCS. It has some sucrose as well, so keep in mind that sucrose is half fructose and half glucose.

btw...I do know that not all fruits are entirely made up of fructose alone, in case anybody is gonna throw that out there.

BMJ

 

[ProtienFiend]

Orange juice and fruit are terrible choices for a post-workout drink (or high GI drink). They are full of High Fructose Corn Syrup, regular fructose, and the acidity can also slow down absorption. Fructose does a good job of filling up liver glycogen and not the muscles. The body can only metabolize so much fructose before it is synthesized into cholesterol and fatty acids and stored into the fat and liver cells (via pentose phosphate pathway).

Mostly true except that fruits do not have HFCS. HFCS is a man made substance derived from corn and thoroughly processed. It spikes insulin and fills liver glycogen... Its really bad stuff and is the USA's sweetening agent of choice

 

[MR. BMJ]

Mostly true except that fruits do not have HFCS. HFCS is a man made substance derived from corn and thoroughly processed. It spikes insulin and fills liver glycogen... Its really bad stuff and is the USA's sweetening agent of choice

Yeah, that is what I meant, I just didn't separate or distinguish where each came from. I agree HFCS sux

BMJ