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Marty Champions

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Is there any benefit in burning muscle glycogen
« on: March 02, 2019, 05:21:09 PM »
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Re: Is there any benefit in burning muscle glycogen
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2019, 06:01:49 PM »
Muscle glycogen fuels the conversion of ADP back to ATP. This generally occurs when intense efforts go past 10-15 seconds or so. So if you do lots of fast step ups, yes you will burn glycogen. Is that a good thing? Well- you burn glycogen you lose weight - but if you replenish the carbs within 24 hours the glycogen stores fill back up. It’s how our body works.

If you are on a low carb diet the glycogen levels take a much longer time to recover and you will proportionately burn more fat in the intervening days.
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Re: Is there any benefit in burning muscle glycogen
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2019, 08:04:04 AM »
Quote from: Hypertrophy on March 02, 2019, 06:01:49 PM
Muscle glycogen fuels the conversion of ADP back to ATP. This generally occurs when intense efforts go past 10-15 seconds or so. So if you do lots of fast step ups, yes you will burn glycogen. Is that a good thing? Well- you burn glycogen you lose weight - but if you replenish the carbs within 24 hours the glycogen stores fill back up. It’s how our body works.

If you are on a low carb diet the glycogen levels take a much longer time to recover and you will proportionately burn more fat in the intervening days.
im always carbin up in hopes to maintain strength , but not going too high in fat or total calories. I lost decent fat on low fat with moderate volume training but i cant push my trainining to no more than 7 or 8 sets a day if its a work day , then now my body is adapting
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Re: Is there any benefit in burning muscle glycogen
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2019, 09:31:12 AM »
Quote from: Marty Champions on March 03, 2019, 08:04:04 AM
im always carbin up in hopes to maintain strength , but not going too high in fat or total calories. I lost decent fat on low fat with moderate volume training but i cant push my trainining to no more than 7 or 8 sets a day if its a work day , then now my body is adapting

Yes- if you restrict calories while doing exercises like step ups you will gradually lose fat.
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Re: Is there any benefit in burning muscle glycogen
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2019, 01:17:27 PM »
Quote from: Marty Champions on March 03, 2019, 08:04:04 AM
im always carbin up in hopes to maintain strength , but not going too high in fat or total calories. I lost decent fat on low fat with moderate volume training but i cant push my trainining to no more than 7 or 8 sets a day if its a work day , then now my body is adapting


Marty stop provoking 'Safety Fat' he'll re-start with his hyper BS again ............ >:(
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