If someone has a resistance training pattern of multiple times a week. One day there is extensive cardiovascular training, with the intention to use fat as energy. Will protein ingestion during the cardio, which can be > 4 hours, be used as an energy sources for the cardiovascular activity, or will it be used as amino acids to recover the muscle micro damage from the resistance training? I am looking for articles and/or views.
My idea is that the protein will be used for muscle recovery, as long as the intention of the cardiovascular activity is not to high. When glycogen is lower after a few hours, and fatty acids get burned, a higher intensity could use the amino acids in that case. So moderate pace will be the clue.
Thanks in advance
go with your won gut instinct :) nobody knows about this protein supplementation stuff.. there are only theories and experiments done on very specific groups of people
That's a fact
Those resistance training issues, were/are regularly hopefully sustained by protein ingestion...Yes, "hopefully, but that's all : No significant differences between those weeks of resistance training, followed or not by those protein ingestions.
Hello Peter, firstly, you should make sure that the only substrate used after the workout will even be the protein base, since minimal amounts of carbohydrates are sufficient to raise blood glucose and insulin levels, which are antagonistic to lipolysis.
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