Nick Bare

There is an expert panel report

that I was reading titled High Quality Carbohydrates and Physical Performance.

It's PMID 2944946 by Mitch Cantor.

And it states...

Although dietary protein and fat can provide necessary energy to perform physical activity, carbohydrate is the substrate most effectively, most efficiently metabolized by the body and the only macronutrient

that can be broken down rapidly enough to provide energy during periods of high intensity exercise when fast twitch muscle fibers are primarily relied upon.

Carbohydrates are the only macronutrient that can be broken down rapidly enough to provide energy during periods of high intensity exercise when fast twitch muscle fibers are primarily relied upon.

Carbohydrates, when consumed and digested and broken down into glucose, again, they are the most efficient substrate.

They are broken down most and easily, rapidly, fast enough to provide the energy required for high-intensity exercise.

One of the reasons I love carbohydrates.

When your body needs the fuel source, you got it.

It's supplied.

Now, it is safe to say there is some conflicting information and arguments about how much your body needs

carbohydrates when it comes to strictly strength training.

But what we do know is that when the intensity and the volume of the workouts, when it is strictly strength training increase, you require more glucose.

You require more carbohydrates.

If you're just going to the gym and you're moving some weight around and getting a good pump and

You're not going to deplete glycogen, which is how your body stores carbohydrates in the muscle and in the liver.

You're not going to deplete muscle glycogen through a strength training workout unless it's absolutely intensely long and just.

You're getting after it.