Since they use ATP for the first few minutes and
then glycogen that is stored in muscle tissues, strength training and intense fitness exercise do not burn fat.
If glycogen depletion has such an stirring effect on weight loss,
then glycogen loading will obviously cause a weight gain that you now know better than to get anxious and worry over.
The body uses glucose accumulated in the blood,
then the glycogen from the liver and muscles to their full capacity and once they are depleted, it begins to use fat as a source of energy.
Not exact matches
When your insulin levels drop enough,
then you're going to pull energy back out from those fat cells or the
glycogen or whatever.
Then, make sure to pair the drinking of water with carbs consumption — that way you're helping your body store glucose as
glycogen, the favorite food of your muscles.
Dehydration,
then, slows down gastric emptying and perhaps worse, leaves an insufficient amount of water for
glycogen production (in case you didn't know,
glycogen is three parts water), so the entire digestive process is disturbed.
In short, this method requires large short - term changes in your consumption of carbs, sodium and water, and is usually implemented by depleting carbs for several days and
then reloading your muscles with
glycogen, which creates miraculous changes in muscle conditioning.
If you're partaking in a lower carb type of diet your liver will convert the stored
glycogen into glucose and
then release it into your bloodstream,
then when out of
glycogen, it will convert fat and protein for energy.
So how
then do they supply enough
glycogen to their cells to stay alive?
Therefore, after performing an intensive workout, especially if done fasted, you have the lowest
glycogen reserves, meaning you can
then eat a sufficient amount of carbohydrates before the body starts storing it for future use (a.k.a. fat).
I was at the top of my game, intermittent fasting and in intermittent ketosis, where I would dip into a keto state for most the week but
then have a couple carb - load meals to replenish
glycogen levels and teach my body to use both glucose and ketones for energy as best as I could.
Any glucose that is excessive of what the body needs will
then get stored as
glycogen, and any fat that isn't utilized gets stored as well (via a process called lipogenesis).
If you don't have diabetes, starch in brown rice and potato will be broken down and converted to individual molecules of glucose, which will
then make their way into your bloodstream to provide energy or be stored as
glycogen or fat for later use.
Then you aggressively carbo - load for a week to supercharge your body's
glycogen (sugar) supply.
But if you max out your body's capacity for
glycogen storage — easy to do with today's rampant availability of empty calories from sugar - heavy carb sources like soda, candy, and processed food —
then the extra glucose from the carbs is stored as fat instead.
Your liver stores
glycogen which is
then converted to glucose during sleep for this purpose.
So, as long as we don't have — we don't — we don't go above what our — what our body can store,
then it's all gonna be is
Glycogen or gonna be burnt up in moment for fuel during an exercise or a movement pattern.
If one depletes
glycogen stores it absolutely will come from fat, but remember that blood glucose doesn't got to zero and that
then not only puts a huge load on the liver for gluconeogenesis, but also on the renal system disposing of all the urea from amino acid metabolism.
It's gonna help spike mTOR and
then you're also gonna have effects of driving sugar into the muscle, which it's just wrung out all that
glycogen during the workout.
When you do cardio at a low to moderate intensity, the body's preferred fuel is
glycogen (carbohydrate) first, and
then fats.
Our bodies Primary source of energy is glucose (sugar), followed by our
glycogen stores (sugar stores),
then our fat stores, protein stores, and lastly our bodies will turn to our DNA for energy in the worst case scenario.
Depleting
glycogen then supports the pathway that makes exercise more exhausting and thus increases fat burning afterward to restore.
When your body has run out of glucose and
glycogen stores, it will
then turn to your stored fat as a source of energy, which is exactly what we want when we are looking to lose weight or increase our muscle tone.
Normally, these are replenished when you eat carbs, which are broken down into glucose and
then converted to
glycogen.
Once the body is fully depleted of
glycogen, it will
then begin to break down fatty acids in the liver, to eventually produce ketone bodies.
If our liver
glycogen stores are full,
then the body doesn't have a reason to burn fat until they're depleted.
If you know you're going to grab an extra large hot fudge sundae on the weekend, be sure to go low carb and deplete those
glycogen stores in the days prior and
then enjoy!
The control group did the sessions on alternate days, while the «low» group trained just three days a week, starting with the aerobic session to deplete
glycogen,
then doing the intervals an hour later without refuelling.
And when that
glycogen is out, the body
then turns to its stored fat for energy.
Then we have carbs which are absolutely crucial to help fuel training and refuel muscle
glycogen stores.
I posted last month about the «train low, compete high» concept, in which you do a depletion workout to empty your
glycogen stores,
then do a hard workout while running on empty.
If your goals as an athlete are to improve performance — to get stronger, faster and more powerful, to be able to respond quickly and effectively to outside stimulus —
then maintaining muscle
glycogen stores to fuel the need for fast energy production is an absolute necessity.
Some fructose may be converted to
glycogen and
then to glucose, but some may be converted to fat and much may be intercepted by gut bacteria.
If we already have low
glycogen due to low carb dieting,
then you are halfway there to tapping into your bodies fat reserves, and burning ketones for energy.
Plenty of carbohydrates is eaten to refill your muscle
glycogen reserves; you can
then use this to fuel your fat burning workouts during the week.
The glucose is thus used for
glycogen formation in liver and muscles, andit
then used either as a short - term energy source, or it is transformed into fat that represents a long - term energy source.
Also, as we all know, it is insulin that converts sugar to
glycogen: the extra
then turns into fat.
And this is when muscle
glycogen is going to be most susceptible to refilling their stores, so the creatine taken
then will have maximum impact as your muscles are desparately soaking up resources.
If you have your last high glycemic meal on Sunday
then Monday morning you have an overload of
glycogen.
If you've been undereating for a long time
then your muscles are likely in a semi
glycogen depleted state.
If this occurs with other fruits
then it can be a sign of reactive hypoglycemia and very poor liver
glycogen stores.
«If you already have a lot of sugar in your system,
then what you just digested will form either fat or
glycogen, the storage form of glucose that's used for quick energy.
The liver
then starts to convert stored
glycogen into glucose.
You might be ketogenic Monday through Friday, exercising all the while and capping the work week off with a really intense
glycogen - depleting training session,
then go high - carb, low - fat Saturday through Sunday to refill your depleted and newly - insulin sensitive muscle
glycogen stores.
If too much fructose floods in too quickly
then the liver can not convert it to
glycogen all at once, and converts some to fat instead, which gradually builds up in the liver.
When there's too much
glycogen, as there usually is unless you're habitually in a state of marathon training, the
glycogen then gets converted into fat.
However, if you quit working out and
then suddenly started running again you are going to increase your
glycogen stores, which will bring some water weight with it.
It usually means to deplete
glycogen levels
then refill them after exercise.
In a study conducted by researchers at McMaster University, subjects depleted
glycogen stores by cycling and
then followed either a high - or low - carb diet for 2 days and
then did a 2 - hour leg workout.
So, I take this to mean, when the liver fills up with
glycogen, the next place it stores
glycogen is as fat on the liver and
then as fat in the cells.