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 Dr Buff
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| Where's My Partner? |
| 03.10.2010 13:49:22 | |
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Workout partner? I dun need no stinkin’ workout partner! Got stood up today, America. M’boy Steve had to work overtime at Boeing and didn’t make it in for legs. No worries, though…I made it do what it do! After a killer leg workout I knocked out another 30 minutes of hard cardio. The first 10 was excruciating as the legs were really tired and heavy. But they loosened up in a few and I held steady for the remaining 20 minutes. After that I sat in the hot tub for 20 minutes – and promptly fell asleep. Good thing I set my timer or I might still be in there. Showered up and then threw the ice wraps on the knees and low back, ate a meal, and now I blogging for the second time today and watching the game.
I’d like to thank Guy Overby one more time for a great response guest blog this morning. Literally right after I posted it I got the email from Steve that he wouldn’t be here. Talk about timing. Guy, your words got me through a killer workout. My initial ‘reaction’ to Steve’s email was, “Aww man…I gotta do legs by myself? I really don’t have that push in me with two weeks to go. But then I re-read the blog, and it was on, America. I had three options – I could either skip legs (not an option…), do a half-hearted leg workout based upon how I ‘felt’ (again, not an option…), or go in there and give it my all by myself, for myself, and with myself (that was the only viable option). I’m the only one who controls my destiny. Today’s leg workout was every bit as good as last week’s, and we destroyed legs last week! You CAN affect your outcome, America. No hype, no bull…just go and push yourself as hard as you possibly can with what you’ve got in the tank.
Speaking of tanks, I just wanna real quick touch on energy levels again. Remember, you’re gonna feel the effects of carb depletion. The only time you’ll probably feel good is during your training and first cardio session. You might be reaching that point to where you’re tired most of the day outside of training. You might not even feel like training until you get started and endorphins start flowing. You might feel a bit irritable or grouchy or on edge. You might find that you can’t focus on things – that you’re a bit spacey when normally you’re not. Be careful around close friends and family as they’ll more than likely be the brunt of your ‘aggression’. As I said yesterday, it’s physiological – you can’t control it! It’s not stress, the job, relationships, or anything else. It’s the low carbs! As soon as you plug them back in you’ll literally instantly feel better. I don’t remember if I blogged on this last season or not, but it’s worth repeating even if I did.
A study was done years ago in which carbs were depleted to where glycogen stores and blood sugar levels were extremely low. The individuals all felt like crap, were light-headed, irritable, and couldn’t function clearly with simple menial tasks or answer simple questions. They were given either a placebo or straight sugar in the form of hard candy and told to suck but not swallow. They answered questions and had their blood drawn in five minutes. The placebo group showed no improvement as expected. The sugar group showed significant cognitive improvement and their blood sugar levels increased significantly. You can attribute your feelings to whatever you want, but the science says low carbs. “Nuff said...?
Here’s another installment of 30 of Bodybuilding’s Biggest Lies…enjoy!
4. If you eat a low-fat diet, it doesn’t matter how many calories you take in; you won’t gain fat. The bottom line is, if you exceed your energy requirements either for a meal or for the entire day, you’ll gradually get fatter and fatter. It’s true that eating a diet rich in fat will pack on the pounds quicker for a variety of reasons, the most significant being that a gram of fat has nine calories as opposed to the four calories per gram that carbohydrates and proteins carry. That’s why high-fat diets typically don’t work in the long run, especially if you’re eating lots of saturated fats. Fat is also metabolized differently in the body. It takes a lesser amount of energy (calories) to digest and assimilate the energy in consumed fat than it does to assimilate an equal (weight wise) amount of carbohydrates. Consequently, more fat calories get stored than carbohydrate calories.
However, taking in tons of carbs, regardless of the source, in excess of what your body needs at any point in time will make you fat very quickly. You’ll start by gaining the water weight (water bonds to carbs at approximately a 4-to-1 ratio…that’s the initial weight gain you experience when you up your carbs) and then once the glycogen stores are full, the excess carbohydrate calories get shuttled to the fat cells if they aren’t burned off as energy through activity. Many of the popular weight-gain powders are loaded with carbohydrates, and many of the MRP’s (Meal Replacement Plans) have high carbs and high fats – some with upwards of 18-25 gms of fat per serving.
I’m done for tonight, America…two blogs in one day…that’s a lot for this ole man. Ya’ll enjoy the rest of your evening…I’m gonna finish watching the game, eat a bit more, and then get my beauty sleep…peace!
The Dr.
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