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FT Nutrition - bk777 - 10-09-2021
During a week, two of my workouts are going to be on a week day and although I can probably start training around 5pm, I do need to go to bed reasonably early compared to others as I have to be up early in the morning. I think by the time I work my way up to Tier 3 each workout is going to take a while and I think I might struggle to finish and get in the 2 post workout meals. I know that the worst case scenario is that I can have a high carb breakfast in the morning.
My questions are will only having 1 post workout meal and essentially the other one in the morning 8+ hours later effect my gains over a period of time? Also, if I was to go down that route and have oats and whey in the morning, I would most likely make it a decent size meal with 100g of carbohydrates. Would that be the only meal for that day which would contain carbs? It would be a rest day so I understand that we are keeping carbs below 100g, but on rest days I was going to use the metabolic flexibility approach and go all day with zero carbs and then have a carb meal in the evening the same time as my post workout meal on training days to keep the pattern the same. However, I'm guessing since I'll be consuming carbs in the morning that the metabolic flexibility approach will have to be scrapped and after the high carb breakfast, I would just eat protein and fat meals for the rest of the day??
This will only occur for the workouts during the week. At the weekend I plan to train both Saturday and Sunday and will work out slightly earlier in order to get the 2 post workout meals in before bed. It's only twice during the week that this issue may arise. I might be able to fit the meals in but I don't want to rush through the workout and sacrifice productive training just so I can eat. It's probably best to just move the second meal to the morning on those 2 occasions.
Another way to look at it is that I could get both meals in if it was ok to consume them both with 1.5hrs of each other. I think I might struggle to consume post workout meal number 1 and then 2.5-3 hours eat post workout meal number 2. That would probably be too late for me but I could have post workout meal number 1 instantly after training and then maybe 1.5 hrs later have the second meal.
I'm not sure if that will be too many carbs or overall calories to consume in such a short time. I can say that I wouldn't have a problem eating it, I don't believe that would be an issue. My concern would be the amount of carbs and just genral calories and if it would be too much for the body to optimally process in a short window. If it's not an issue then I could do it that way and get in both meals and all the necessary carbs and protein before bed, providing 1.5hrs between each meal is acceptable and not too much for body to digest in that time frame.
If anyone has some advice on this I'd appreciate it
Thanks