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 CKD-should I skip first carp-up weekend?
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mossimo Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 25) |
posted July 21, 2000 12:54 AM
  
I've been on a CKD for a week, no problem, I'm not a carb addict so this diet easy for me and my energy level is fine. Should I skip my first weekend carb-up since I only hit ketosis late weds? This would give me a nice long ketosis burn as as long as I can keep my energy good for my maintence lifts. Would not carbing the first weekend slow down fat burning in any way? Also, should I take ALA's all the time or only trying to get into ketosis and when carbing up,I go through alot at 800mg a day.Thanks IP: Logged |
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JuiceBoy Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 334) |
posted July 21, 2000 03:17 AM
bad idea, cuz then u throw your whole system out of whack, meaning scheduling your deplete and load days. Not loading this weekend will chew muscle and will slow your metabolism. Skippin it would defeat the purpose of the ckd. IP: Logged |
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mossimo Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 25) |
posted July 21, 2000 02:41 PM
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vlaovic Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 81) |
posted July 21, 2000 05:08 PM
NEVER lift while glycogen depleted! Your body cannot use ketones to fuel a high intensity activity (anything beyond anaerobic threshold i.e. weightlifting, sprinting). Your body must use glucose. With no carbs, it will obtain glucose from protein, including burning its own muscle for energy! With that in mind,if you want to enhance the fat burning of your first 2 weeks on the CKD, or at any other time, ditch the carb-up in favor of high glycemic, no fructose pre-workout carbs. Put down 25g carbs for every ten sets you plan on doing 30 minutes before your workout. The carbs will fuel your workout and will not affect ketosis, providing your muscles are already glycogen-depleted. Liver glycogen governs weather or not you are in ketosis, but unless you consume fructose, liver glycogen gets filled only when muscle glycogen (which has no bearing on ketosis) is topped off. So if you have already depleated muscle glycogen with training after having quit carbs, and not carbed up since, consume the pre-workout carbs. Unless you are doing a Mentzer-style HIT workout, chances are you will deplete glycogen in a cartain body part with a single workout. So if you carb, then for example, train chest, don't train chest again until you have consumed carbs in some way, be it the small pre-workout meal, or the weekend carb-up. If you have the discipline, you can most likely lose more fat doing a TKD (targeted ketogenic diet), which skips the weekend carbup period, replacing it with these small pre-workout carb spikes (which are never more than 50g). Low volume, high intensity workouts i.e. HIT, work well on the TKD. IP: Logged |
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