FT Questions....

[Kleen]

Hi Doc,
I've read some of your previous writings/interviews on pre workout nutrition specifically as well as re-read FT e-book Diet portion (And an interview in '11 with John Meadows on the subject) so as it stands (please correct me if I'm wrong or if this has changed) you employ a protein fat, low carb pre meal prior to training. I have 40g carb from cream of rice 25g P from whey iso pre workout, 40g Carb HBCD Intra (Recovery factor + other ingredients), and post workout is 6oz Lean beef and 60g carb from rice; my question is: Would I be better served in your opinion to take out pre workout carbs and increase them via intra/post? (I also use GDA pre/post workout meal)

I have about 2 months left of offseason, so I'm looking to get that last push of calories before dieting down
Thanks!

I am definitely no Scott, but it seems if you are wanting to push calories you do not have to move the preworkout calories to post workout. Simply add more calories post workout or throughout the entire periworkout window.

Carbs pre-workout for some end up slowing down the system a bit and negatively effecting performance. However for others it greatly improves performance. So,
I have a feeling Scott may say something along the lines of if you perform better with carbs in your pre workout meal then continue doing that, and just increase the carbs intra and post. He tends to ask us to self assess and go with what works best for us individually.

If you just don't know for sure then just give it a shot, and see how you respond. You don't really have anything to lose here either way. Certainly timing and what not make a difference in the situation, but the bottom line is whether you increase your caloric intake across the day, or only in your post workout meal the biggest factor is still the increase in calories. So if nothing drastically improves by the changes you still made progress simply by adding in calories. If you notice greater partitioning from placing carbs in a different position then you know you have made a nutrient timing improvement.

From what I read, this is how Scott does his now. He has a protein + fat only pre workout meal. Then he starts to drink his intraworkout drink which is carb heavy as he is starting his warm up, and that his warm up takes about 15 minutes. That is about the amount of time it takes for the carbs from the drink to start getting into the system so even at that point the carbs are kind of pre-workout.