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Quote from: jipped genes on September 19, 2024, 05:56:19 pm

Quote from: Genetic Freak on September 18, 2024, 01:56:25 am

I take them pre-fasted cardio, which technically makes it not fasted cardio, and intra-workout to prevent catabolism. If I eat 1.5 hours prior to training and 1-1.5 hours after training that may be a 4-5 hour window without food. In that time, I was breaking muscles down. If you are training hard, the aminos and carbohydrates from your pre-workout meal may last 30 minutes into the workout. After that, there is nothing to prevent your muscles from being used as fuel via gluconeogenesis. Having an intra-workout with carbs and aminos will prevent this.

Aminos taken intra-workout should help with DOMS as they start the recovery process sooner than if you were to just wait and eat.

Legs abs and cardio are all I do now as my right elbow is messed up. Thought it was tendonitis. i got several bone chips floating around in there. Anyway, I always did machine weights for legs but was protective of my ole messed up back but with my ab works and core work I did 225 lbs on squat (legit below parallel) for 10 reps yesterday 3 times. I wanted to rack the weight on that last set but knew I had the bailout bars set right so fuck it. I am sure I was a sight. Tall skinny old man with his face screwed up like I was being tortured by the Spanish inquisition doing a light weight.

I don't know if it is placebo but I do not feel so wrecked today. I did another scoop of the BCAAs right before bedas I am supposed to go roll at a BJJ school today. Took the day off to do it. I feel descent.

I took a scoop preworkout and with my postworkout shake. Leg day and it SUCKED! But leg day is supposed to suck or you are not working them hard enough.

This is what I tell clients. If you are not destroyed after legs, do them again. Your intensity sucks so bad, you need to make up for it in volume.