+ 4 Carbs for Athletic Performance
Hey everyone, I‘m an athlete and I just wanted to give an anecdotal experience when it comes to diet and performance. Backstory is that I have been eating a low-carb diet for about 2 years and my athletic performance was pretty decent but not amazing. I ran out of money sooner than I thought I would this past month so I resorted to buying a lot of pasta because its cheap and what I could afford to eat. My performance went through the roof, I had so much more energy, my endurance was probably 50% better and I had an extra explosiveness in my step. I didn‘t think anything of it and went back to my old diet, I played three games and with each one I was incresingly more fatigued, it was horrible, no energy, no endurance it was BAD. I realized that maybe it was horrible that I was so glycogen depleted so I started to carb load for my next game and turns out I was right and foolishly leaving carbs out of my diet was hurting me a lot more performance wise than I thought. I put on about 7-8lbs of water weight when I eat a lot of carbs and I look fat but my performance is sooo much better. I‘m now eating a high protein- high complex carb diet and its making a big difference. I just wanted to write my experience in case anyone is eating a keto or low carb diet as well and are feeling fatigued when playing sports or exercising.
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Oh man you gotta have the carbs babyyy!!
Carbs are fuel, that's why, if you broke it down your muscles are 70%carbs and 30% protein. you drop carbs, you drop energy. You drop energy, you drop strength, e.t.c. The part is learning the balance as too much carbs is bad and too little will cause you to be flat.
RV63TCarbohydrates only before training for me
AnonPut that fuel in the tank before kinda guy! There you go man
I love carbs and 1 salt packet before sex. My forearms and traps get soo veiny along with other parts some women love it some hate it.
Its like going to war you need that energy
they love veiny forearms
RustyhookerI just get a blowjob before sex. No need in pumped forearms unless youre beating the dick to death with a fleshlight while shouting high ho silver in assless chaps and my lil pony nipple clamps.
Just me? Lol
I've had similar experiences with carbs. I try to stick to a low-carb diet but experiment with more before a workout. Too many, and I don't like how I look. I seem to bloat a lot in my midsection. Not enough, and I can barely get through my workout. Yet, more carbs do mean more training energy. Sure, I use a pre-workout, but stim-energy is not the same thing. I agree, more carbs make me look fat yet I can train much more effectively.
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AnonI do hard cardio endurance 1 day a week in the afternoon for a few hours. I don't eat much that day before the afternoon training. But I do drink coconut water, BCAA's, Gatorade (not zero sugar, regular Gatorade w/ dextrose), and various cold pressed fruit and veg juices. I get completely drenched in sweat and my whole body aches the next day. I sometimes get mild muscle guarding in my lower back. Sunday night more fluids and a decent meal before bed. The next day is a rest day and I eat a lot, some cheat meals and very often Italian dishes. Veal or chicken marsala. The parmigiana dishes I got burned out on years ago, and it's just too greasy or something. I'll do nothing but eat 5 or 6x a day that day. The next morning coffee, take a shit, hit the wieghts, eat my regular meals such as a microwave baked potatoe and pan cooked steak, or baked fish and vegetables. Train.
What I'm saying is my highest carb and cal day a week comes the day after my hardest training. A whole day of eat, hydrate, sleep, heal. I can't do much else that day cause my ass is so kicked.
SwoljaboyMy go to lately has been. Salmon mixed in with rice koopi Mayo siracha. Mix that all together. Throw it in some sea salt sea weed and a chunk of avocado. Shit is really good. I have my fiancé make a big ass bowl of the salmon rice koopi Mayo and siracha mixed all together. FIRE. where I live in us has SHIT Italian food. But when I go home to visit I smash Italian food. It what the area I’m from is known for.
RustyhookerOh man that sounds good! Also love salmon sushi hot mayo...omg!!
SwoljaboyBro don’t even get me started on sushi. The food store by me makes fresh sushi every day I grab me a pack every day. Try that shit I told you about above. You make the rice. Cook the salmon fillet. Then mix the salmon in the rice with the koopi Mayo and siracha sauce. Mix it all up. Get some sea salt sea weed square. Cut up avocado slap a spoon full on the sea weed with a clump of avocado BAM! I have my fiancé make it in BULK BIG tupawear bowl so I can just go to the fridge and grab it whenever dude. It’s my new got to lately.
I do alot of hill running and I find my goto for hydration and endurance is a bottle of coconut water everytime.
SwoljaboyInteresting. I use Gatorade powder. Shit is loaded with carbs and stuff. I usually slam one of those and a protein shake right after workout. During my workout I take in minimum 32 oz of water. Then the rest of the day it is water and gatoraide
AnonI'll throw up drinking the coconut or cold press juices while training. I stick to water only. But before and after training it's lots of coconut water and juices.
RustyhookerNow that im older i do have to watch the type of carbs or i get fatter. But carbs are muscle sparing and tge only fuel burned during weight session.
I eat fruit at 500g on a slow day, even dieting and over a kilo when hitting hard... my body just loves it. I piss more than once per hour at night, but my body just reacts well to it... grapes, pineapple, watermelon (any melon) even raisins if I can get them without a ton of sugar coating. Only my last 2-4 weeks of cutting do I have to cut it down, or if running 'strict' keto, but it goes a treat with me.
RustyhookerLotta tricks out there!
I have to have my carbs. I feel too sluggish and fog brain when I don't have them.
SwoljaboyI notice a big difference in my workouts in the morning when consuming high carb meal the night before versus low carb. Big difference. Night and day. I also used to consume carbs an hour prior to working out in the am. But now HGH has taken place of that because of the timing of my shots I do in the am. So now I go fasted and work out. And it’s a bitch some days. Thinking about switching my GH to night time from now on.
Life is too short for a low carb diet.