[Gaf Knee]

Since the body will begin using stored fat for energy (to my understanding anyway), is glycogen then obsolete?

[LunaHotel]

Ahh! Great question!!!

Well, it depends which kind of low-carb diet you do! Some people advise taking a 30g-carb drink after training even on a low-carb diet. Is it still a low-carb diet then? I dunno. For these athletes glycogen is very important, they burn it in their workouts and keep replenishing it.

In a diet such as the Di Pasquale "Anabolic Diet" there are virtually NO carbs for 5 days followed by a 2-day carb/fat pig-out. This diet forces the body to effectively switch to a purely fat-based metabolism. Well OK, the carb/glycogen metabolism is not COMPLETELY suspended, but the fat-burning pathways are pumped up to be totally sufficient even for high-intensity exercise, rendering glycogen effectively obsolete. There is NO WALL, which is PROOF that carbs are not needed on the diet.

They are used, but not needed from a performance standpoint. They are used to generate insulin, which is an incredible anabolic catalyst, and to train the muscle to store more and more glycogen, which obviously also results in a larger muscle.

I drink water.

[Atavis]

Whey. Sometimes i add 10grams of dextrose and 5gr creatine.

[tatortodd]

Yesterday, I responded to this in your other post workout thread. All of the answers are in the links posted in that thread.

~Todd