I am going to cover a bit more of an advanced topic but you are more than ready for it, carb timing...

Carb Timing With Strength Training Workouts

Now, carbohydrates are actually the primary fuel source for strength training, believe it or not.

Protein just helps in recovery and actually building the muscle once it was teared down from the workout.

This is crazy, there was a research study on Type 2 Diabetics and strength training.

Without boring you to death, what they found was that after just 1 strength training session, the muscle cell receptors opened up in the participants with Type 2 Diabetes and actually took the sugar from the blood into the muscle cells and converted the sugar into muscle!

Normally the sugar would be stored as fat.

What this means is that, for you who may or may not have diabetes we can time the majority of our carb intake for AFTER the strength training workouts.

For example, I eat my carbs like rice, bread, pasta, etc. mostly after my strength training workouts.

And on off days from my workouts, I will eat mostly fruits and veggies as the source of my carbs.

Carb Timing With Alcohol

Now, if you enjoy an alcoholic beverage here and there you are going to love this.

Alcohol is a form of carb, sugar.

So, if you are going to have a couple drinks on a Friday night or so, time your workouts either that day or closer to the time you would be drinking, preferably right before.

This will help to reduce the negative effects of alcohol such as empty extra calories to get some of them actually converted to muscle versus stored as fat while you are socializing and having a good time.

Along with causing you to drink less because your body is primed to absorb faster after exercise, aka feeling the fun effects of alcohol without having to have too many drinks and more!

Carb Timing Before Bed

We havent looked at the research on this other than with the thousands of members we have worked with and it came down to this:

We recommend consuming your carbs during the day and not at night.

Ever feel bloated or full when you wake up?

Carbs retain water, which isnt a bad thing but might be why you wake up feeling sluggish or bloated.

Now, sugar stimulates the brain and therefore would cause us to stay alert when trying to sleep.

This is why some people drink soda during the day after lunch because the sugar is stimulating the brain to stay awake and alert.

If you consume sugar before bed, you are decreasing the likelihood of falling asleep quicker and if you do, possibly will not be in a deep sleep due to the stimulation of sugar on the brain.

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