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    Morning cardio, High frequncy training and carb cycling

    I want to build more muscle ( i believe in high frеquency training and i am going to stick with it ) and i am wondering is it okay to do morning cardio ( to burn some fat and help the muscles to recover ), and to make the weekends "low carb" days . What do u think ?

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    It's fine to carb cycle while training. As you said, eat fewer carbs when you're not training and carb up when you want to workout.

    As for the cardio, I'm not sure it will help much. I doubt you'll lose any fat while you're putting on muscle, so I wouldn't do it for that purpose. I suppose you could do it just for some active recovery or GPP but I don't know how useful it would be.

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    my logic is like this.. if the statement that the morning cardio burs 3 times more fat than the ordinary cardio this means around 400 cals directly from the fat stores .. 400x7 = 2800 cal for a week directly from the fat..and if my logic and info is correct this will produce impressive results in fat lose when it's applied like 1-2 months, right ?

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    Whos to say those calories will come from fat? You have glycogen, you know. Glycogen stores will be used for energy if theres no readily available energy from food.

    Just worry about overall calorie intake and eating under maintenance regularly. This will make you lose weight. Throw in some weight training and a bit of cardio, and you're golden.

    Stop overthinking.
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    Your premises are incorrect. There's no way to tell where those calories you're burning will come from when you do cardio. They may come from fat, they may come from glycogen, they may come from muscle breakdown.

    The point is, you're not going to build muscle and lose fat at the same time. Those are two completely different metabolic goals. Your body simply can't do it unless you're completely untrained.

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    Plus if you DID manage to burn 2800 calories of fat a week (which you wouldn't, as gtbmed pointed out), that still only equates to like 0.6lbs, so why bother? It hardly seems worth the effort for such a tiny loss as you would only lose 5lbs in 2 months assuming no muscle tissue breakdown occurred and ALL the loss was JUST from fat stores. Just eat less and enjoy lying in bed for an extra hour.
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    Are you referring to doing fasted cardio? If so, doing that while trying to gain muscle mass is about the worst idea I've ever heard.

    Just eat a moderate caloric excess if you want to mitigate fat gains while trying to pack on muscle mass. Try a 10% increase in calories over maintenance as a starting point.

    Also, whoever told you that you burn 3x more fat when doing fasted cardio is by my best guesses, misguided. They probably saw a poorly conducted study that suggested something along those lines and ran with it. Furthermore, total calorie balance is still most important. That type of thing may be of possible use when trying to remove fat once you are already relatively lean. When trying to add muscle mass it is just completely and utterly silly.
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