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Carbs can be stored as fat at any time.
There is nothing magical about any point in the day.
Carbs are ingested, passed through to the small intesting, broken down to sugars, passed into the blood stream, and either utilzed for energy, taken up and stored as liver or muscle glycogen, or converted to triglycerides and stored as fat.
People tend to only think of muscle as contractile tissue.....the part of the muscle that does the contraction.
This is actually a relatively small portion of the muscle.
The rest of your muscle mass is made up of glycogen, water, blood vessels, capillaries, arteries, sodium, etc., etc.
These 'extra' items play a HUGE role in the function and appearance of muscle tissue.
Glycogen:
The way glucose (carbs) are stored for later use in the body. Glucose is the MOST EFFECTIVE energy source for weight training. If there isn't enough glucose available for training, your body makes it through gluconeogenesis. That is, creating new glucose....it does this from protein..IE: MUSCLE.
Glycogen storage also requires 3 things:
1: glucose
2: sodium
3: water
More water is actually brought into the muscle with glycogen than the actual glycogen itself.
Water hydrates the muscle. A well hydrated muscle is a more anabolic muscle. It is a less catabolic muscle. It also creates a better environment for strength, through better leverage capabilities, and also better contractile functioning.
Carbs can be stored as fat in any sitation in which they are not needed by the body.
Your carb intake should vary inversely with your protein intake.
The more protein you eat, the less carbs you need.
The more carbs you eat, the less protein you need.
Remember that it isn't the amount of protein that you eat that is important. It is the amount of protein that you synthesis into new muscle.
Proper carbohydrate utilization will greatly increase the percentage of protein you can synthesise into new muscle.
If you're eating 600g of protein a day....you know you're not using all of that, or even most of that for production of new muscle mass.....unless you're 500lbs of pure muscle after a few months of training
Justin Harris
There is nothing magical about any point in the day.
Carbs are ingested, passed through to the small intesting, broken down to sugars, passed into the blood stream, and either utilzed for energy, taken up and stored as liver or muscle glycogen, or converted to triglycerides and stored as fat.
People tend to only think of muscle as contractile tissue.....the part of the muscle that does the contraction.
This is actually a relatively small portion of the muscle.
The rest of your muscle mass is made up of glycogen, water, blood vessels, capillaries, arteries, sodium, etc., etc.
These 'extra' items play a HUGE role in the function and appearance of muscle tissue.
Glycogen:
The way glucose (carbs) are stored for later use in the body. Glucose is the MOST EFFECTIVE energy source for weight training. If there isn't enough glucose available for training, your body makes it through gluconeogenesis. That is, creating new glucose....it does this from protein..IE: MUSCLE.
Glycogen storage also requires 3 things:
1: glucose
2: sodium
3: water
More water is actually brought into the muscle with glycogen than the actual glycogen itself.
Water hydrates the muscle. A well hydrated muscle is a more anabolic muscle. It is a less catabolic muscle. It also creates a better environment for strength, through better leverage capabilities, and also better contractile functioning.
Carbs can be stored as fat in any sitation in which they are not needed by the body.
Your carb intake should vary inversely with your protein intake.
The more protein you eat, the less carbs you need.
The more carbs you eat, the less protein you need.
Remember that it isn't the amount of protein that you eat that is important. It is the amount of protein that you synthesis into new muscle.
Proper carbohydrate utilization will greatly increase the percentage of protein you can synthesise into new muscle.
If you're eating 600g of protein a day....you know you're not using all of that, or even most of that for production of new muscle mass.....unless you're 500lbs of pure muscle after a few months of training
Justin Harris
