Thread: meals and cardio

If your workout is just cardio, I'd wait 20-30 min then drink it. If your doing weights, I'd drink it right after.

your metabolic rate stays elevated for a couple hrs after intense cardio. so yes what STB said 30 min aftyer is fine...IMO

cool, I was waiting between 30 - 60 minutes after my cardio workout.

depends what type of cardio you're doing.

right it does.so whats your take TCD..????

Interval training is anaerobic and is no different to resistance training in this sense. Do you wait 30-60 minutes before chugging down your shake after a heavy weights session? Hell no.

Aerobic stuff like jogging doesn;t provoke the same hormonal response and uses different bioenergetic pathways than anaerobic training. As far as this goes i'd still eat straight away, but if i had to wait a bit it wouldn;t bother me so much.

Another thing, although it depends on the type of diet you're doing and the structure of the entire thing, but i don;t have carbs after any cardio work. I use protein and fat. If you put sugar into your blood then you're just inhibiting the hGH release that cardio, and especially HIIT, releases. I'm not saying taking in carbs after cardio will stop you losing fat, but why shun a perfect opportunity to maximise fat burning potential? (for anyone unsure, hGH promotes fat burning from adipocytes [fat cells] as opposed to sugar burning [including muscle cells])

I know some say that the hGH release has negible effects, but i believe that many of these releases over time does have a great effect - one on it's own won;t tho.

If you take in carbs after cardio you're just gonna promote insulin release (possibly an insulin spike if it's an MRP which usually contain maltodextrin) and this will just put you into storage mode (muscle building yes, but also fat storing). If you're bulking than so fook, but if you're cutting this is something you may wanna look into. Like i said tho, it's entirely based upon the structure of your diet as it stands.

now what about the hGH release after weight training right? well, this is definately a time when you wanna be replenishing glycogen stores and all that jazz. Whether you use dextrose or malto and spike insulin, or use oats and keep insulin stable is up to you tho.

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