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Unless it's some serious interval work, I don't feed cardio any differently from rest.
I don't do a lot of cardio though, and I'm not talking about eating for performance, okay? If you're training for a marathon, your diet should be appropriate to your goals.
To clarify on what I posted earlier, post-workout carbohydrate serves two main functions.
One is to stimulate insulin, which blunts cortisol while it helps shuttle nutrients into the now-primed and tramuatized muscle-tissue, to promote repair. The other main function is to promote reglycogenation - except that reglycogenation happens over the following hours and days, "spike" or not.
If you've just completely thrashed yourself with high-intensity training - heavy lifting, intense sprinting, complexes - post-workout carbohydrate will support the anti-cortisol function even while fat-burning is taking place. There is peer reviewed literature to this effect that I can dig up if someone actually wants to read it. So you can lift like a mofo, do some sprints, then get on the tready and sip your dextrose and whey shake while you cool down and you won't blunt the fat-burning because the intense activity stimulated the catecholamine-mediated release of free fatty acids. Once liberated, insulin or not, you'll just burn 'em off while you're walking it out.
That being said, if you aren't lifting and you only do a few minutes of sprints follwed by a half-hour walk, I hardly see the need for post-workout carb - that is, unless you really want it.
My .02
everyone knows it self body, when to add more carbs after the cardio days, cause the next day have to lift weights.
To clarify on what I posted earlier, post-workout carbohydrate serves two main functions.
One is to stimulate insulin, which blunts cortisol while it helps shuttle nutrients into the now-primed and tramuatized muscle-tissue, to promote repair. The other main function is to promote reglycogenation - except that reglycogenation happens over the following hours and days, "spike" or not.
If you've just completely thrashed yourself with high-intensity training - heavy lifting, intense sprinting, complexes - post-workout carbohydrate will support the anti-cortisol function even while fat-burning is taking place. There is peer reviewed literature to this effect that I can dig up if someone actually wants to read it. So you can lift like a mofo, do some sprints, then get on the tready and sip your dextrose and whey shake while you cool down and you won't blunt the fat-burning because the intense activity stimulated the catecholamine-mediated release of free fatty acids. Once liberated, insulin or not, you'll just burn 'em off while you're walking it out.
That being said, if you aren't lifting and you only do a few minutes of sprints follwed by a half-hour walk, I hardly see the need for post-workout carb - that is, unless you really want it.
My .02