Pre / post workout nutrition

[lew]

Hi,

Bulking diet:
I will be consuming 25% of my daily calories within a Pre work out meal and another 25% for PWO. Before i start this i have seen and read posts were a lot of people consume majority of calories in PWO & PPWO meals. Which would be better for my bulking goals? experience from you guys who have tried both ways would be appreciated

Option A Option B

Meal 1 - 20% Meal 1 - 20%
Meal 2 - 20% Meal 2 - 20%
Meal 3 - 25% Meal 3 - 10%
WORKOUT WORKOUT
Meal 4 - 25% Meal 4 - 25%
meal 5 - 10% Meal 5 - 25%


Thanks

Lew

[IronFreakX]

Without taking any factors, flaws in that outline, improvments or anything into consideration, I prefer Option B.

[Kärnfysikern]

the amount of kcal is not whats important. Its the ammount of carbs.


Have most of your daily carb intake pre and post workout.

[lew]

the amount of kcal is not whats important. Its the ammount of carbs.


Have most of your daily carb intake pre and post workout.

I personally disagree with this i believe kcal are the underlying factor. However my question is more geared towards how meals should be factored around a workout not the macro breakdown which i agree with you regarding carb intake.

If i try and breakdown the question a touch more i have around 2000kcal around workout do you feel these should be split pre and pwo or two higher kcal/carb/pro meals PWO & PPWO?

[Kärnfysikern]

I personally disagree with this i believe kcal are the underlying factor. However my question is more geared towards how meals should be factored around a workout not the macro breakdown which i agree with you regarding carb intake.

If i try and breakdown the question a touch more i have around 2000kcal around workout do you feel these should be split pre and pwo or two higher kcal/carb/pro meals PWO & PPWO?

Well I mentioned carbs because it all depends on carbs is a big or small part of your total kcal. When I cut I restrict carbs heavily so even though 50% of my carbs are pre and 50% of my carbs are post workout the kcal ammount isnt proportionaly that big.

If you have 2000kcal around workout I would split them in 4 meals. Something like this I recon.

Solid meal around 600kcal 1,5 hour pre workout
Easily digestable shake 400kcal 30 minutes pre workout
Post workout shake 400kcal imidietly following workout
solid meal around 600kcal 1-1,5 hour post workout.

But I must emphasis that I much rather think in terms of grams of protein and grams of carbs around the workout. I for instance dont think most people need much more than at most 100 gram carbs in the last meal pre and first meal post workout.