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Glycogen depletion
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Carb drinks pre intra and post workout brah. Unless you are a competitive power athlete, I wouldn't sweat it. Muscles run on atp regardless. The state of your metabolism glycogenic/ketogenic only determine the speed at which your body creates the fuel and from where most of the atp is being processed i.e. Blood sugar and/or fatty acids.
The shitty feeling a novice keto dieter may get in the beginning is your body adapting. Like anything, after awhile you won't notice much of a difference if you're keto or glyco state.
I have noticed better stamina and endurance in a keto state probably due to metabolism being more in an oxidative process. Yes there is a noticeable drop off in maximal training. But I just reserve those strength cycles for bulking diets. Kinda counterintuitive to make strength gains while doing a cut/recomp. Just adjust your diet accordingly.
The shitty feeling a novice keto dieter may get in the beginning is your body adapting. Like anything, after awhile you won't notice much of a difference if you're keto or glyco state.
I have noticed better stamina and endurance in a keto state probably due to metabolism being more in an oxidative process. Yes there is a noticeable drop off in maximal training. But I just reserve those strength cycles for bulking diets. Kinda counterintuitive to make strength gains while doing a cut/recomp. Just adjust your diet accordingly.
OK as per my other recent thread I started training a month ago and was getting solid gains until the start of week 4 where due to coming off holidays I was getting at least 600 calls less per day than in the first 3 weeks and probably about 30g of fat. Protein would have been slightly down but not enough to strip muscle off me.
So within a couple of days my muscles looked completly gone. All the gains looked like they had diminished and I felt dry and dehydrated. Whatever it was, the water had drained from my muscles and others put this down to glycogen depletion which makes sense to me.
The real problem for me however was that I hit a wall with my training. In week 4 the sessions were getting put off later and later in the day until eventually I just stopped training because I was exhausted.
Im training upper and lower twice a week but my intensity is very high. Probably as high as you could go without injury (sometimes with injury). Ive lifted on and off for about 20 years.
So perhaps I need to switch to working one muscle group a week over 5 days. The typical bro split?
So within a couple of days my muscles looked completly gone. All the gains looked like they had diminished and I felt dry and dehydrated. Whatever it was, the water had drained from my muscles and others put this down to glycogen depletion which makes sense to me.
The real problem for me however was that I hit a wall with my training. In week 4 the sessions were getting put off later and later in the day until eventually I just stopped training because I was exhausted.
Im training upper and lower twice a week but my intensity is very high. Probably as high as you could go without injury (sometimes with injury). Ive lifted on and off for about 20 years.
So perhaps I need to switch to working one muscle group a week over 5 days. The typical bro split?
iamINVICTUS
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If you do a 5 day split, you will only be hitting that bodypart like 4 times a month. Does that seem like enough? No, it definitely isnt.
So, continue what you were doing; just make sure you replenish your body. There is no point in working out if you cant provide your body what it needs to build.
I have the same thing happen to me though. Sometimes, after 1 or 2 months, i will have a shitty workout. No good pump, tired etc. The next day my muscles will he wilted. What i do to combat this, is take 2 days off and just eat as much as you can. Carbs too! When you come back the next day, you will be good to go!
So, continue what you were doing; just make sure you replenish your body. There is no point in working out if you cant provide your body what it needs to build.
I have the same thing happen to me though. Sometimes, after 1 or 2 months, i will have a shitty workout. No good pump, tired etc. The next day my muscles will he wilted. What i do to combat this, is take 2 days off and just eat as much as you can. Carbs too! When you come back the next day, you will be good to go!
ironwill1951
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if you cut your carbs enough to put your body in keto you need to increase your fats to use as energy .
