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The Importance of Carb Cycling in Resistance Training
Carbs are bad because they raise your blood glucose, so therefore I shouldn't have them. But actually when you're doing resistance training, like we were just talking about the importance of you actually want to be burning glucose during that workout. And that actually helps your muscles improve strength and hypertrophy and recovery. So timing carbs around exercise doesn't negatively predispose you to developing diabetes or all the metabolic complications.