Complex carbs during cardio

[co2boi]

I've started muay thai and boxing classes. During the first couple of workouts I almost passed out from exhaustion. I decided to start mixing a scoop of carbo hit into my water and my workouts are 1000% better than before. I even take back-to-back classses some nights.

My question is: Despite how much better my workouts are; am I negating the fat burning effects of the workouts by drinking the complex carbs?

[damiongage]

How many carbs are you taking?

How long and intense are your workouts?

[co2boi]

It's 52 grams of carbs. The workouts are 60 minutes. (120 if I take them back to back). They are pretty intense, I sweat my arse off.

I've never left and not felt like I did something.

[VTliftVT]

it will certainly affect your fat loss efforts. you are replenishing your glycogen stores in which your body will use first before resulting to fat/proteins as an energy source.

[damiongage]

This is based on Morning fasted cardio vs mid day...but i believe it is relavent in this case.

Exercise Physiologist Greg Landry, MS, author of "The Metabolism System for Weight Loss and Fitness," explains, "I agree that you burn a fuel mix that is a little higher in fat if you’re exercising on an empty stomach. However, I think the real question is, does that matter? I believe we have a ‘pool’ of calories stored in different forms in the body (fat, glycogen, etc.), so ‘burned’ calories all come from the same pool. Thus, it really doesn’t matter that the fuel mix has a little more fat in it at a given time. If it’s pulling from fat stores at that time, then it’s pulling less from glycogen stores and thus future consumed calories will be a little more likely to be stored as fat because glycogen stores are a little fuller. So it’s all a wash."

Lyle McDonald, an expert on bodybuilding nutrition and author of "The Ketogenic Diet," agrees. He argues that the body will compensate later in the day and is simply "too smart" for strategies like this to ever work: "All that research says is that you burn a greater proportion of fat this way, which I agree with 100%," says Lyle. "The majority of research shows that as far as real world fat loss goes, it doesn’t really matter what you burn. Rather, 24-hour calorie balance is what matters. Because if you burn glucose during exercise, you tend to burn more fat the rest of the day. If you burn fat during exercise, you burn more glucose during the day. The end result is identical. If that weren’t the case, then athletes like sprinters who never ‘burn fat’ during exercise wouldn’t be shredded. Basically, they burn so many calories that they remain in balance and don’t gain any fat. So, while morning cardio probably provides some psychological benefits to bodybuilders who are programmed to do it that way, I can’t say that I think it will result in greater ‘real world’ fat loss, which is what matters."

Author: Tom Venuto

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I will state that the author does agree in the end that he prefers fasted cardio.

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