Can we discuss the importance of carbs post-workout? I've

>>42230849
>to sports articles who claim that you need 70-100g carbs within 30m of your workout

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>>42230849
My advice: Don't worry about getting the perfect shake or packing in the macros. just eat enough whole healthy foods to feel 80% full.

You should eat something with carbs and protein in it at least within an hour of finishing your workout with enough calories to make up what you burned if you're trying to gain (or nearly make it up even if you are trying to lose).

Personally I eat a small amount of carbs as I'm walking into the gym, always helps the workout, but you really need to eat it within a few minutes of starting your workout or the benefit is reduced a lot.

depends how fat you are and how much you're lifting and what your goals are, theres a lot of conflicting advice because theres a million ways to skin the cat here.


quick n dirty carb tips: if you have a lot of body fat to lose, you don't need as many carbs. the leaner you are the more you can eat. also the more muscle mass you have the more carbs you can buffer before you "spill over."

if you strength train a lot or do a lot of glycolytic exercise like playing sports and you're doing them more than a few days a week, eat more carbs. get carbs from clean sources, try to eat a lot of leafy vegetables/plant matter and starchy vegetables when you feel you need/deserve more.


also don't worry about the details too much because if you're generally eating clean (rarely having junk food/alcohol), getting good sleep, and working out you won't put on much fat anyway. you don't really need to do anything very advanced like having a specific amount of carbs unless you're going for some autismally specific goal, the fitness world is full of articles catering to people who want to be competing body builders or athletes and catering to normies who wish they were like that, but if you don't have something very specific to zero in on having 80 grams of carbs in a post workout meal vs 120 grams isn't going to matter very much.