Originally Posted by EatRite
your body wont store carbs as fat unless u have a surplus of cellular glycogen, so if you moderate the carbs you eat, you wont store them as fat... when you lift weights you use primarily carbs... about 90%... u also use about 3 to 5% creatine phosphate... very little fat... if you are lifting weights or doing 20 to 30 mins of cardio at high intensity carbs are more important... your body will burn fat through out the day if you have a lower caloric intake compared to expenditure, just from being alive... if you have moderate carb intake, and low fat intake, the carbs you burn will be used for wight lifting and for your involuntary muscle and nervous system... you HAVE to have a solid amount of carbs in order to supply enough muscle glycogen for the heart and involuntary muscles as well as enough for the nervous system... your brain and heart and involuntary muscles CANT operate off of anything but glucose... u need to supply these or else your body will accellarate muscle protein breakdown ten fold... and you are wrong you dont burn carbs "first" you burn whatever fuel ur body needs to burn to operate most efficiently... slow bursts of motion generally burn more fat... this is why 40 to 60 mins of slow intensity cardio is better for fat loss than a 20 min sprint session or a 20 min high intensity run... because insted of burning glucose you will burn saturated fat as a primary source of energy... this is because the faster the burst of motion the higher proportion of glucose you use in that motion... this is why carbs are very important before/during/after ur lifts, because thats what you are using when you lift... try eating tons of peanut butter or high fatty foods with ur protein insted of sugars before during and after ur workout and tell me how you feel after a few weeks of that... if you are lifting weights you need carbs... it is that simple...
