What happens when I eat good carbs right after a workout

[ThinkAndGrow]

I know that drinking a scoop of protein repairs the muscle, and having a fruit does something like spike up the insulin levels so my body regains energy to rebuild..but what do carbs do? Sometimes I feel like in doing the wrong thing when I eat carbs too soon like I just had 50 grams of whole wheats and I'm still gonba have to have more an hour later when I have my real meal with chicken. I feel arhat having carbs right after a workout and again an hour later will make me gain body fat, is this true? I do run for an hour a day also though so at those times I'm worried of losing muscle.

[WonderPug]

See:

Here, I'll help you...........

The postexercise "anabolic window" is a highly misused & abused concept. Preworkout nutrition all but cancels the urgency, unless you're an endurance athlete with multiple glycogen-depleting events in a single day. Getting down to brass tacks, a relatively recent study (Power et al. 2009) showed that a 45g dose of whey protein isolate takes appx 50 minutes to cause blood AA levels to peak. Resulting insulin levels, which peaked at 40 minutes after ingestion, remained at elevations known to max out the inhibition of muscle protein breakdown (15-30 mU/L) for 120 minutes after ingestion. This dose takes 3 hours for insulin & AA levels to return to baseline from the point of ingestion. The inclusion of carbs to this dose would cause AA & insulin levels to peak higher & stay elevated above baseline even longer.

So much for the anabolic peephole & the urgency to down AAs during your weight training workout; they are already seeping into circulation (& will continue to do so after your training bout is done). Even in the event that a preworkout meal is skipped, the anabolic effect of the postworkout meal is increased as a supercompensatory response (Deldicque et al, 2010). Moving on, another recent study (Staples et al, 2010) found that a substantial dose of carbohydrate (50g maltodextrin) added to 25g whey protein was unable to further increase postexercise net muscle protein balance compared to the protein dose without carbs. Again, this is not to say that adding carbs at this point is counterproductive, but it certainly doesn't support the idea that you must get your lightning-fast postexercise carb orgy for optimal results.

To add to this... Why has the majority of longer-term research failed to show any meaningful differences in nutrient timing relative to the resistance training bout? It's likely because the body is smarter than we give it credit for. Most people don't know that as a result of a single training bout, the receptivity of muscle to protein dosing can persist for at least 24 hours: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21289204

More from earlier in the thread:

Here's what you're not seeming to grasp: the "windows" for taking advantage of nutrient timing are not little peepholes. They're more like bay windows of a mansion. You're ignoring just how long the anabolic effects are of a typical mixed meal. Depending on the size of a meal, it takes a good 1-2 hours for circulating substrate levels to peak, and it takes a good 3-6 hours (or more) for everythng to drop back down to baseline.

You're also ignoring the fact that the anabolic effects of a meal are maxed out at much lower levels than typical meals drive insulin & amino acids up to. Furthermore, you're also ignoring the body's ability of anabolic (& fat-oxidative) supercompensation when forced to work in the absence of fuels. So, metaphorically speaking, our physiology basically has the universe mapped out and you're thinking it needs to be taught addition & subtraction.

[WillNotStop]

Good carbs? Carbs are carbs, whether you get them from ice cream or wholewheat bread.

[miacanesfan25]

As long as you're regular you'll poop sooner or later. Other than that I think you'll survive. Meal timing and frequency is irrelevant in terms of body compisition. Being in a persistent, long term caloriffic surplus however, will make you fat.

[Gemuadrken]

Eat the bad carbs. They deserve to be punished for whatever they did that made them bad. And it is good that you will make them watch you work out first. That will scare the crap out of them. Leave the good carbs alone.

[xMetalocalypse]

Good carbs? Carbs are carbs, whether you get them from ice cream or wholewheat bread.

It seems somebody's finally read the stickies.

[WonderPug]

Eat the bad carbs. They deserve to be punished for whatever they did that made them bad. And it is good that you will make them watch you work out first. That will scare the crap out of them. Leave the good carbs alone.

This actually is an exceptionally rational approach to behavior modification of polyhydroxy aldehydes and ketones.

[ironwill2008]

What happens when I eat good carbs right after a workout

Other than you being less hungry than before you ate them, not much.

[JCarruth130]

If u put them under ur tongue the carb fairy will come and exchange them for hard, lean muscle.


Not srs.

[dimmupelto]

If u put them under ur tongue the carb fairy will come and exchange them for hard, lean muscle.


Not srs.

Sometimes there's really no point in adding "not srs" to your post.

[AlwaysTryin]

It seems somebody's finally read the stickies.

He is still making daily stupid threads so I don't believe it lol

[Laveli]

Pug is back, ill be visiting here more often now!!

[MikeK46]

If u put them under ur tongue the carb fairy will come and exchange them for hard, lean muscle.


Not srs.

Good thing you added the "not srs." You had us all fooled for a second there!

[Verint]

There are good carbs and evil carbs? I didn't know carbs had intentions..

[JCarruth130]

Good thing you added the "not srs." You had us all fooled for a second there!

Hey..ud be amazed...bet someone put a peice of bread under their pillow after reading it.

[SteveJSS]

Hey..ud be amazed...bet someone put a peice of bread under their pillow after reading it.

Why would someone put bread under their pillow after being told to put it under their tongue? That would just be silly.

[JaredPunch]

Good carbs? Carbs are carbs, whether you get them from ice cream or wholewheat bread.

wrong, ice cream carbs are good carbs, wholewheat bread carbs are no good taste carbs

[rjones416]

does that mean i should throw away my broccoli and eat a handful of sugar instead?

[MNTiburon]

does that mean i should throw away my broccoli and eat a handful of sugar instead?

Haha good one.

Sugar (sucrose) is basically the same whether it comes from sugarcane, corn syrup, or fruit. The difference is what else comes with it. Whole fruit has loads of vitamins and minerals, whereas table sugar and cornsyrup are processed with no nutritional value. Same goes for whole wheat and white. Whole grain contains more micros because the bran and germ are not stripped. When I'm eating carbs I prefer foods that help me hit my daily micro goals.

[MAGnitude]

what is a good carb? is it a cho without a criminal record, and educated cho that has finished college, a cho that has never swore in it's life.

someone please enlighten me.