Working out 5-6 days a week = a Carb up a week?

[Starky1177]

If you work out 5-6 days a week, one hour each time, cardio each time, Should you carb up once a week? If so for how long?

[timeformegaman]

In my experience, it depends on what kind of cardio you are doing. If you are doing some low intensity steady state stuff, that you probably get by without the carbup. If you do a lot of high intensity interval stuff, you are definelty going to have a hard time keeping up with it if you don't do the carb up. At least, I know I have a hard with sprinting and swim sprints without a carbup, and even with a two day carbup they are still pretty difficult on keto.

[Starky1177]

Most of it is, Moderate intensity steady state (for now) on a Elliptical (my feet f*cking kill from walking to classes in sandals) 15 minutes before work out and 10-15 minutes after workout

[jaim91]

Are you trying to cut, bulk or maintain

[Starky1177]

cut

[SumthinOrNuthin]

You'll need to just try weekly carb-ups and see what happens. Some people go anything up to 2, 3, 4 weeks or more.

I tried weekly at first but I wasn't losing so cut it back to 2-weekly and that worked a lot better.

I do quite a bit of cardio - 20 mins moderate/steady after lifting 3 times a week and 3 days of HIIT cardio. (I rest on the other day!) I really struggled for the first 4 weeks or so with my energy for the HIIT and was getting quite disheartened. But this week, something seems to have changed and I'm back to normal - plenty of energy and no more feeling like I need to swap legs with somebody who has spare glucose in their quads