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Can you basically do "AM" cardio any time while in ketosis?
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Either the food is in your stomach or it isn't! If it's in your stomach then you can't be 'burning it for fuel', and if it's no longer in your stomach then you are exercising on an empty stomach! Honestly folks, it REALLY doesn't matter on a keto diet. What difference does it make if you burn stored bodyfat during exercise, then replace those calories with food, versus burning the food you've just eaten instead of storing that food as fat??? Total calories and total fat burned will be the same. Even with carbs it won't make a huge difference for most folks since digestion is slowed with exercise, and insulin levels also plummet during exercise so you can still mobilize fat for fuel. The biggest exception might be someone who is insulin resistant (which admittedly is prolly a large proportion of westerners!). In this case they should just avoid carbs.
From August Pamploma over at MFW:
" You're not looking at the big picture. That
you're not utilizing a heck of a lot of fatty acids now doesn't mean you
might not be utilizing them later (when you're not exercising) and doesn't
take into account how a glycogen store deficit might imply (depending on
caloric intake) that you're storing less fat later.
Think of it this way, whatever you're doing (using fats or glycogen
predominantly) you are creating a temporary depletion of reserves (whether
there's a net depletion depends on diet). Assume you've used fat stores and
not glycogen stores, then surplus calories consumed in food will go back
into fat stores preferentially (because glycogen stores are already full and
muscles and liver simply can't take much more --unlike fat, which seems to
provide virtually limitless storage capability, glycogen is quite limited).
Assuming you've depleted glycogen stores and not fat stores, then surplus
calories consumed in food (assuming sufficient carbohydrate or glycogenic
amino acid intake) will go back into glycogen stores preferentially (because
the body likes glycogen stores to be full)."
From August Pamploma over at MFW:
" You're not looking at the big picture. That
you're not utilizing a heck of a lot of fatty acids now doesn't mean you
might not be utilizing them later (when you're not exercising) and doesn't
take into account how a glycogen store deficit might imply (depending on
caloric intake) that you're storing less fat later.
Think of it this way, whatever you're doing (using fats or glycogen
predominantly) you are creating a temporary depletion of reserves (whether
there's a net depletion depends on diet). Assume you've used fat stores and
not glycogen stores, then surplus calories consumed in food will go back
into fat stores preferentially (because glycogen stores are already full and
muscles and liver simply can't take much more --unlike fat, which seems to
provide virtually limitless storage capability, glycogen is quite limited).
Assuming you've depleted glycogen stores and not fat stores, then surplus
calories consumed in food (assuming sufficient carbohydrate or glycogenic
amino acid intake) will go back into glycogen stores preferentially (because
the body likes glycogen stores to be full)."
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