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As long ago as the early 60's researchers discovered that the amino acid Carnitine played an important role in determining whether the body uses stored glycogen for energy or stored fat. During the 90's this subject was examined in great detail and the critical role of carnitine in this process was fully revealed. In a nutshell, carnitine can flip the switch from the body burning carbs to burning bodyfat.
When we do cardio for body recomp purposes what fuel source do we want our body to use? Do we want it to be burning the glycogen in our liver from last night's dinner or do we want it to be oxidizing the fat on our hams and glutes? Obviously the latter. All the time we spend on the bike, rower, or treadmill up to the bodyfat burning portion of the session is just exercise we have to trudge through to get to the actual fat burning part of the workout. Carnitine alters that.
Assuming you are going to dose orally, choose bitartirate. Always dose with a high GI carb meal, low fat, and low protein in order to induce a big insulin spike. The insulin will be needed to transport the carnitine in to the mitochondria. Accumulation in the mitochondria is progressive, so effects will not be immediate. Do not dose too close to bedtime as it could cause some initial insomnia.
Hard to find oral dosing levels as all the research was done with injectible carnitine. I can connect you to perfectly legal injectible carnitine if you're interested. PM me. As for oral, high dosages are safe, so you can't screw yourself up taking 1000mg 2x daily each with GI high meals.
If you want to inject this is actually much easier. Injection only requires dosing once every 3 days and even then only a 29 or 30g insulin needle is required.
What's going to begin to happen is because of the rich carnitine stores in your muscle's mitochondria your body will start using stored body fat during times when it would normally choose to access stored glycogen. Over time there could be a substantially greater amount of body fat burned without increasing cardio.
When we do cardio for body recomp purposes what fuel source do we want our body to use? Do we want it to be burning the glycogen in our liver from last night's dinner or do we want it to be oxidizing the fat on our hams and glutes? Obviously the latter. All the time we spend on the bike, rower, or treadmill up to the bodyfat burning portion of the session is just exercise we have to trudge through to get to the actual fat burning part of the workout. Carnitine alters that.
Assuming you are going to dose orally, choose bitartirate. Always dose with a high GI carb meal, low fat, and low protein in order to induce a big insulin spike. The insulin will be needed to transport the carnitine in to the mitochondria. Accumulation in the mitochondria is progressive, so effects will not be immediate. Do not dose too close to bedtime as it could cause some initial insomnia.
Hard to find oral dosing levels as all the research was done with injectible carnitine. I can connect you to perfectly legal injectible carnitine if you're interested. PM me. As for oral, high dosages are safe, so you can't screw yourself up taking 1000mg 2x daily each with GI high meals.
If you want to inject this is actually much easier. Injection only requires dosing once every 3 days and even then only a 29 or 30g insulin needle is required.
What's going to begin to happen is because of the rich carnitine stores in your muscle's mitochondria your body will start using stored body fat during times when it would normally choose to access stored glycogen. Over time there could be a substantially greater amount of body fat burned without increasing cardio.
