PWO recovery drink and glyogen replenish question

[yannick35]

I am an ex low carber, don't get me wrong this diet is insane and amazing and will produce amazing results even more if someone is using gear.

But i could never get over the effect of ketosis.

My question is regarding the PWO recovery drink and most of it being adding 100g of carbs to replenish glycogen storage.

When going on a low carb diet the ultimate goal is to reach ketosis and deplete glycogen in the muscles, i manage to do this in 3 days with hard training, and to be honest i don't see the need to add all theses carbs to a PWO drink because i feel that glycogen during a hard workout does not get depleted that much.

When i went on low carb i did the UD2.0 by Lyle Mcdonalds, i did a full body workout 3 X 15 reps has heavy has i could lift and more and i did it twice

squat
leg press
leg extension
bench press
military press
chins
bent rows
bb curls
triceps pushdown

Then i repeated the whole thing once more

Then again the next day, yes yes yes yes i was sore has hell but that was the program to deplete maximum glycogen and on top of all this no carbs allowed during the first 5 days, refeed 2 days weekends i used 1 day.

Still i took 3 days to deplete all my glycogen.

So i am really wondering if a PWO should have that amount of carbs, if the rest of the diet good or if someone is trying to lean out.

I am just asking what do you guys think of this?

Thanks and have a great 2012 everyone

[joshh]

100g carbs is way too much pwo imo. i would only mix 45g oats (~25g carbs) to my pwo shake followed by 150g brown rice 45 minutes after the shake. and because you're trying to lean out, you want to stay away from sugars even pwo. complex carbs will still give you that replenish without the insulin spike.

[gbrice75]

It all depends on your caloric needs, there's no 'correct' answer. Based on your goals alone, I'd venture to guess it's too high, but I'm a bit confused - is this your ONLY carb meal since you're running a keto diet? If you're eating a carb meal after every workout, you're not running a keto diet, nor will you ever reach ketosis. If you intend to run a lower carb diet (eg 100g/day), it would be better to split the carbs 50/50 pre and post workout IMO, and possibly carb cycling a few very low days while doing depletive type workouts.