Can Someone Explain These Bizarre Gains?

[nikolafuckingtesla]

1. I have an Ironman Tanita scale that measures my muscle mass in KGs (as well as a bunch of other useful stuff).

2. I'm doing sort of a CKD. Once a week I'll either do a clean carb up or a full on splurge day (with all the crap I can cram into my mouth - and wine to wash it down).

3. On Friday I crushed it with Weights (Colorado Experiment style).

4. Saturday I did my weekly Triathlon training. This time I did my personal best distance: 1K Swim, 25K Bike, 6K run (I'm in between a Sprint and Olypmic distance now - working my way up to an Olympic).

5. Sunday I did a splurge to end all splurges. I ate all the sugary fatty crap I could lay my hands on and over a bottle of wine at night with friends. I took ALA all day and ate protein with most of the food (but not always a lot). I say on my ass all day.

6. Today (Monday), I step on the scale fully expecting to have gained about 1 kilogram of fat, but instead ... I've gained 2KG of muscle. The scale showed the muscle evenly distributed throughout my body (no, it wasn't just the undigested meat sitting in my gut).

What happened?

Was it my body so starved for repair after my Tri on Saturday?

Was it the ALA?

Was it the protein I ate with the carbs?

I'm trying to understand these gains so that perhaps I can do this again

NFT

 

[Tatyana]

The BMI scales are a useful tool, but they are not 100% accurate.

If you are a 70 kg man, you will have approximately 800 g of glycogen stored (200g in liver, 600 g in muscle)

Each gram of glycogen also stores 3 g of water = 2400 g or 2.4 kg.

Muscle is mostly water, so adding the water back into the muscle with the glycogen/carb reload.................

It is to be expected.

 

[Makavelli]

The BMI scales are a useful tool, but they are not 100% accurate.

If you are a 70 kg man, you will have approximately 800 g of glycogen stored (200g in liver, 600 g in muscle)

Each gram of glycogen also stores 3 g of water = 2400 g or 2.4 kg.

Muscle is mostly water, so adding the water back into the muscle with the glycogen/carb reload.................

It is to be expected.

Yep that's right. It's interesting to note that I've followed a ckd for 9 months straight before. I did it for fat loss, however I actually gained quite a bit of muscle as did the group that I trained during that time. It wasn't just water as we all did body comps.

In your case bro it's water in your muscles from the extra glycogen.

 

[DidiXterra]

The BMI scales are a useful tool, but they are not 100% accurate.

If you are a 70 kg man, you will have approximately 800 g of glycogen stored (200g in liver, 600 g in muscle)

Each gram of glycogen also stores 3 g of water = 2400 g or 2.4 kg.

Muscle is mostly water, so adding the water back into the muscle with the glycogen/carb reload.................

It is to be expected.

Yeah, those Tanita scales are really making me feel "blonde" until I started reading your posts about the bf% readings and Tanita scales... Im trying my best to get those readings as accurate as possible, when would actually be the best time to get an accurate reading? ...In the morning 1h after downing 1l of water with electrolytes?

Regards, that blonde brown-haired guy!

 

[1999TL]

If you measure yourselft at different times in the day, those tanita scales will measure your body very differently. I dont even wait for the BMI index to come up. I just get my weight and move off. I think the mirror is the best for me. I get body fat tested at the gym, but there is always somebody different working the counter. Sure enough, my bf % will be different 2-3% every time. They tell me that it has a standard deviation of 3%. So, I just use the mirror these days.