This is pretty misleading. You make insulin all the time. It’s not always in direct response to carbs and blood sugar. You smell food, you make insulin. You consume protein, you make insulin. All foods have an associated insulin response, some less than others.
Simple carbs and fast-digesting protein during your workout, regardless of who you are. Pre and Peri workout nutrition is potentially MORE important than post-workout nutrition.
Actually your post is misleading. The amount of insulin you produce after smelling a chicken and after eating potatoes and drinking a soda is gonna be drastically different.
Some foods cause you to make way less insulin than others is what you should have said.
And some can lower the insulin response of other foods when eaten in combination, such as fats + carbs.
The point is to avoid simple carbs that spike insulin levels and increase insulin resistance, which emphasize fat storage mechanisms in your body.
Your first sentence doesn’t even make sense. What about simple carbs and protein during your workout?? Lol.
Have them or don’t have them?
Also saying things like, “regardless of who you are,” is just plain misleading and uninformed.
You wouldn’t tell a diabetic to eat simple carbs… are you just trolling here or what?
And your second sentence is vague.
Can you clarify?
all i know is this dude is fucking rediculous…hes 23…weighs 170, and is 5’6…
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Roberth
whos that guy heat?
Yes, they do. However, that was never the point. You implied that without carbs, your body won’t store excess energy as fat. That’s just wrong. Regardless of what you eat, your body will store excess energy. High insulin levels will exacerbate it, yes, but it will still get stored.
Sigh, are you going to nitpick at lazy grammar? Everyone (minus extreme diet restricted individuals, duh, but how many dialysis patients and diabetics do we have here? I’m going to assume few to none.) should consume simple carbs and protein during their workout. Your body is most capable of properly utilizing carbs during your workout. High insulin levels during your workout increases protein synthesis, initiates carb, protein and potassium transport into skeletal muscle.
So, if you like improved muscle synthesis, reduced soreness, faster recovery, better immune response, improved fat burning, improved anaerobic and aerobic capacities, you’ll consume sugar and protein during your workouts.
Yeah, but these guys have more medals!
Bulgarian Weightlifter Ivan Stoitsov.
Weightlifters are true beasts among beasts.
Question for you SRK’ers:
I’m your typical, overly-thin 135 lb. 5’ 10" asian male. I want to gain weight and muscle mass, but I have no gym access. Is gaining weight/muscle mass in this situation possible?
What I’m doing now is 15 minutes of running in the morning followed by 5 sets of 17 pushups + 22 crunches–which is pushing myself to my physical limit. And then I eat massive amounts of food for the rest of the day non-stop.
I dunno if this’ll work, because I know that increased reps are mostly for toning, not muscle building–you need actual weights to push you to your muscle’s limits to break and rebuild muscle.
Seeing as that’s the case, any way to gain muscle mass without a gym handy?
Ok this might seem like a stupid question, but please humor me guys. So from side on, my arms are looking pretty decent, have a bit of size and what not. But say when I’m facing front on, with my arm in a bicep curl position, they kinda look thin.
So what I’m trying to ask is am I missing some muscle group? Is there a way to increase the width? of my arms?
I’m assuming you got shit for supplies, right? How much money are you willing to invest in equipment? Got access to a chinup bar? Are you a student?
Do dips between dining room chairs. If you love pushups, prop your feet up and do pushups. Grab a backpack, load it with heavy books and do pushups. If you’ve got a chinup bar, do chins, if not, go to a local park and do chins off the jungle gym. Do 1 legged squat progression. Grab that same heavy ass backpack and run up some stairs.
Also, high reps builds muscle, as do low reps and medium reps. Mostly, you’re going to want to eat a lot to gain weight. If you’re busting your ass when you workout, most of those calories will turn into muscle. Personally, I’d save up money to buy some dumbbells.
Squat.
You think I’m joking.
it might also be genetics…
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Hey I’m a ectomorphes and shit is hell hard to gain weight. I gotta eat something like every 2 hrs and I was wondering what you guys reccomond for me to eat to bulk up. I’m 170 and 6’1" using creatine and I would like my end result to be 200. Currently I eat rice, pasta, potatoes, tysons freezer chicken strips, yogurt, eggs, honey bunches of oats cereal, bananas, and anything I can get my hands on during the day away from home. O and I drink 100+ oz of water a day.
Yesterday I ate
HoneyBunches of oats w/ whole milk for breakfest
2hrs later I snacked on 2 packaged roasted peanuts. (Yes not good)
2 hrs later I ate some Asian noodle dish with beef and vegs.
3 hrs later I ate a 6" Subway sandwich (Italian BMT for the win)
3 hrs later I ate some white rice, beans, and chicken.
when I got home apx. 2 hrs after my last meal I ate a banana and some yogurt.
and also, I use to weigh 190 of being a fat ass and lost 30 pounds. I was wondering if it would be good for me to fully avoid cardio days at the gym at the moment because my main objective is to gain weight and muscle?
Any suggestions?
Light 15-20 min cardio session after lifting weights wont hinder/kill your gains, just make sure your calories stay above maintenance, if anything it will help you keep LBM (lean body mass) an help burn the excess fat.
Just cause one is bulking doesnt mean to cut out cardio completely.
If you want to gain weight i wouldn’t be doing 15 minutes of running a day, seems counter productive to me.
also high reps doesn’t = toning, it’s more for endurance.
Alright, I need the science behind this one just to understand it.
hes more than likely talking about how squats help produce something like more hormones and more hormones means it will help your whole body grow overall from doing squats…
ive read something along this line but im sure he can explain it better…
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Roberth
Squats are the truth. I did 4 reps of 20 (90 lbs) today and I can truly see my body hurting tmr morning.
Anyone do tae bo? Is it effective?