cardio.....which would be better in your opinion?

[gmanlax7]

after cardio your supposed to wait a bit, i think its 20 minutes after intense and 30 minutes after moderate cardio, before you eat so that you will optimize the fat burning. Getting something in you is definatly important or else you'll lose some muscle and be sore as hell.

 

[Zander1983]

Eat immediately. It was Bill Phillips who said that waiting is best to optimise fat burning, but the most recent studies disprove this.

 

[coolcolj]

speak of the devil..


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[casualbb]

Eat immediately. It was Bill Phillips who said that waiting is best to optimise fat burning, but the most recent studies disprove this.

Which studies exactly? I've seen one that stuck people in a giant calorimeter to measure their metabolic rates. They found that, after cardio, BMR was elevated for some hours -- UNLESS the subjects had immediately eaten a carb-heavy meal. I'm not sure the mechanism they proposed, but I'm pretty sure: any work will burn some muscle glycogen. The more intense the cardio, the more glycogen it will burn. When you don't eat immediately, the muscles are forced to use fat to help replenish glycogen. If you immediately eat the carbs necessary for glycogen refill, you don't get that higher BMR and burned fat. Better to eat some slow-protein, like chicken.

-casualbb

 

[Zander1983]

There was a thread recently at the T-Mag forums that quoted some studies. I'll try and find it.