Thread: Why no carb mix?

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Someone please answer this or at least just tell me my question sucks.

I'm not sure why you would need to buy a carb mix. Mix Maltodextrin and Dextrose if you want a carb mix. I am also curious how many of each people use in their PWO shakes. I am under the impression that most don't even use maltodextrin but only Dextrose for the PWO insulin spike.

They mix all types of supps; why not mix the optimum ratio for PWO. I thought that just dextrose would be not as good as malto for PWO. I also would think that would be way to sweet unless your like scoops of sugar in your protein.

i have two comments:

i take carbs with my shake, but i stay away from sugar

in my exercise science class i learned that sugar slows the digestion of proteins, hindering the metabolism....

Can someone who knows what their talking about please comment on this.

What else would you want in a carb mix besides flavoring? Most protein/creatine mixes have all the other stuff already.

I like to use a 50:50 split of dextrose to maltodextrose. too much dextrose can cause a negative insulin spike and actually cause less nutrients to be stored in skeltal muscle

Thanks for understanding what I'm asking.....I think Ill start using 60% mal. and 40% dex.

Originally Posted by Nate K

Can someone who knows what their talking about please comment on this.

wow way the be a fucking doushe bag when people try to help


what a tool

Originally Posted by Hlanderr

wow way the be a fucking doushe bag when people try to help


what a tool

I wasn't directing that comment to you even though it read as if I were.

Originally Posted by Hlanderr

wow way the be a fucking doushe bag when people try to help


what a tool

Like you are one to talk

Well, IMO I am stupid for telling you this...you should patent that idea and market it! Business made

Yeah I'll get on that....It sounds good but it might be hard to patent the idea of mixing maltodextrin and dextrose.
I'm rich biitch-

Originally Posted by Nate K

I wasn't directing that comment to you even though it read as if I were.

I guess it was directed at me?

I also wanted to combine some complex carbs with my protein for a post workout shake. I tried really hard to find a supplement that would give a good combo of Protein & Complex Carbs but I couldn't find anything except many weight Gain powders that had lots of other stuff. If you use something like that then you can not control each ingredient in the right amount so best way is to mix it yourself.

But then the burning question was still " How Much " ?

So I started looking around in a different category called " Recovery " and there they had lots of other garbage too.

Again they couldn't agree on one ratio either. The ratios had a range of "1 to 3" to "1 to 8".

Well, I thought I atleast can use a common sense to sort it out.

So I have decided that probably 1 to 3 or 1 to 4 should give me approx. 100 grams of Carbs with a 25 gram protein which is a total of around 500 calories and that should be enough to give me some energy & recovery.

Still one question I still am trying to figure out is how much of Maltodextrin & how much Fructose or Dextrose.

Again my common sense says to just go for Maltodextrin alone which wouldn't hurt much.

Well I am not a doctor or Nutritionist but trying to figure out an answer for which there is no good source. ( Not atleast yet but I will keep looking )

One more thing I am looking into is whether Glutamine would also help in recovery or not.


Hope this helps & I would welcome more ideas too.

I'm not sure if many studies have been done over the optimum ratio of carbs for muscle recovery and growth.....this might be difficult to support. I personally use www.trueprotein.com and you can mix any ratio that you want and any amount in lbs.

I think Glutamine does help in recovery......I think glutamine only helps on recovery; not muscle building. In my opinion you need to use like 15 grams a day though and it is almost not worth buying it.