Something weird I heard

[needsleep]

I overheard a trainer telling someone that after cardio you can eat whatever you want and it will get turned into muscle glycogen, i.e. cream cakes, chocolate, lard, whatever

I've never heard that before and honestly don't believe it for a second, but was wondering if anyone has any true info on whether or not this is at all in the realms of sanity. I don't like to think I know everything, and would hardly start eating cream cakes on mass after any cardio if it were the case. The guy was probably at 30%bodyfat and not at all muscular so it didn't help my assumptions on the subject.

 

[Liftbig]

lol

 

[casualbb]

That's really oversimplified...

True, after exercise the body prioritizes refill of muscle glycogen.

But that's not an excuse to eat whatever you want after cardio.

Say it takes like 400 calories of carb to refill your glycogen. You eat a cake immediately, boom, cardio negated. Everything you eat subsequently will make you fat.

Say you don't eat the cake. Glycogen still unfilled. When you have your next meal, a lot of that will go to glycogen instead of making you fat.

So in the end it's still calories in vs. calories out.

 

[Maccer101]

I think there is a limit to the rate that the body can replace glycogen of around 5% (of the total capacity) per hour, so overeating postworkout can still lead to fat depositon.

 

[Exodus]

i train like that and i have an 8 pack............. oh wait, no im fat. yeah casualbb is right........ he made it sound so much better than it really is.

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[Deleted member 33117]

Right, to a certain you have some leway post workout, because muscle glycogen is slightly depleted and insulin senstivity is elevated, however it certainly doesn't give free reign to eat anything. Yeah, I love these people who think that depleting massive amounts of muscle glycogen is easy. Come on, those who do keto diets know better. Really, even doing 5 days on no carbs every week, and weight training every day, AND doing cardio for an hour a day, how many people really drop more than 5 ibs (assuming 2 ibs if fat loss) during those 5 days? That's only 3 ibs of glycogen. No offense, but even after the most brutal of workouts, 100 grams of carbs immediately after training is more than most would need to replensih muscle glycogen stores. Assuming this fat guy burned 200 calories during his session (I know fat people at the gym who burn alot less according to the reading on the machine when they are finished. Usually 50-70 cals. Say he was exerting himself pretty hard and 40% of it was glucose and 60% fat calories, that is only 80 calories from his glycogen stores. 20 grams of carbs will refill them. That is one slice of bread. That is less than one non-diet soda. Everything else is spill over. Since he is fat, he has insulin senstivity issues, so most of the excess sugar that isn't used to replenish glycogen stores will be stored as bodyfat. This PT is full of shit.

 

[Cochise (M-Wave)]

Eat anything you want and quantity doesn't matter? That's the greatest thing I have ever heard.

 

[endpoint]

I prefer chocolate cake with thick icing and cream after cardio.........













This person is getting paid?

 

[Exodus]

I prefer chocolate cake with thick icing and cream after cardio.........


even better.......... have the chocolate cake with thick icing and cream after doing no cardio.........lol

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This person is getting paid?

 

[BigBadBootyDaddy29]

Hahaha, Exodus, I was gonna say something just like that after I read the original post, but you beat me to it. On the serious side, BodybyFinaplix is 100% correct.

It is common sense, if you burn say 300 calories on a treadmill and you eat 800 calories worth of donoughts, you just undid your cardio and then some, you'd be better off skipping the cardio and saving yourself the effort and eating less donoughts or no donoughts.

 

[from zero]

What the ...

 

[brian747478`]

cochise, u have been preaching that for years and have a unique physique to show for it hahahaha
hope to see u soon bro