Nutrition for HIT

[godbod]

Happy New Year everyone!

What should the nutrition be surrounding a High Intensity cardio session?

Currently, I am following the sticky by rambo, but on my off days I would like to add some HIIT or 80% of MAX HR to increase my cardiovascular fitness.

I'm not too worried about losing lean mass, my primary goal is fat loss followed by cardio increase, and then finally maybe adding or maintaining muscle.

Currently my schedule looks like the following:
Weight days.
7am - cardio(45 min - low intensity)
9am - protein/fat
12pm - protein/fat
3pm - protein/fat
5pm - weights
following weights - PWO
8pm - PPWO
11pm - protein/fat

Non Weight Days
7am - cardio(45 min - low intensity)
9am - protein/fat
12pm - protein/fat
3pm - (p/cc)protein/complex carb
6pm - (p/f)protein/fat
8pm - protein/fat
11pm - protein/fat

For the Non Weight Days, if I added HIIT at 6pm, would I replace my 3pm p/cc with a p/f and then add a p/cc directly after cardio(sample1)? Or would it be more like a weight days with a simple carb/protein PWO and PPWO after the HIIT(sample2). OR is this just a bad idea to begin with?

Thanks for any input


Sample1
Non Weight Days
7am - cardio(45 min - low intensity)
9am - protein/fat
12pm - protein/fat
3pm - (p/f)protein/fat
5pm - HIIT
following HIIT - (p/cc)protein/complex carb
8pm - protein/fat
11pm - protein/fat

or
Sample2
Non Weight Days
7am - cardio(45 min - low intensity)
9am - protein/fat
12pm - protein/fat
3pm - (p/f)protein/fat
5pm - HIIT
following HIIT - simple carb/protein
8pm - complex carb/protein
11pm - protein/fat

[SwoleCat]

Did you mean HIIT as in High Intensity Interval Training?

That is a form of cardio, HIT is a type of weight training.

~SC~

[godbod]

Yea, sorry. My mistake. I did mean HIIT.

The more I look around the forum, it would seem that I would want a complex carb after it since it isn't breaking down the muscle as much as weights would do. If anyone has another opinion though, feel free to correct me.

[SwoleCat]

I don't do HIIT and never will, so I'll leave this to the others.

Peace!

~SC~