Spreading out carbs evenly vs more with certain meals

[JaredLinez]

Curious what thoughts you guys have on this.

Say someone has 600g carbs a day, but wants to keep them mostly around the training window.

Just to be extreme for examples sake, say diet A is 100g carbs for every meal (6 meals). Diet B is 250g pre workout, 100g intra, and 250g post. Is there a “limit” to how much of those carbs are going to be properly stored as glycogen, due to all being eaten in a single meal? Or is it really about the total of the day that is going to be most relevant? What would be better for our body composition goals? I know many coaches like John meadows really emphasized periworkout nutrition, but can it be too extreme?

 

[cromespider]

unless you are a pro eater, you are going to have a real hard time doing 250 pre , 100intra, and 250 post.

If it were me I would spread it out throughout the day.
Meal 1 :100
Meal 2
Meal 3:100
Pre : 50, post 50
Meal 5:100
Meal 6: 100

 

[luki7788]

overthinking - just add a little more carbohydrates around training, e.g. your 600g

Meal 1:100
Meal 2,100
Meal 3:125
intra 25
Meal 4:150
Meal 5:100
Meal 6:0

 

[bbxtreme]

overthinking - just add a little more carbohydrates around training, e.g. your 600g

Meal 1:100
Meal 2,100
Meal 3:125
intra 25
Meal 4:150
Meal 5:100
Meal 6:0

Agreed. Extremely overthinking. The only thing that would make a difference in this case IMO is if they’re using insulin.

But at the end of the day it’s CICO and net daily/weekly caloric intake that matters.

 

[aHarness]

overthinking - just add a little more carbohydrates around training, e.g. your 600g

Meal 1:100
Meal 2,100
Meal 3:125
intra 25
Meal 4:150
Meal 5:100
Meal 6:0

Agreed, even if it ideal on paper to focus carbs around training, once over the 200g carb mark for a meal I’m so lethargic/full that I would need to wait 2-3 hours after eating to train, and if I trained any sooner I’d still be digesting and performance would actually SUFFER.

I know this from experience, because I made the same mistake and tried it.

 

[TheOtherOne55]

What works for you and what do YOU prefer?
Like others said, overthinking.
Personally, i like having my high carbs around my WO and maybe my last meal to help me pass out.
As long as you are able to get the cals in and you are not fucking your digestion, make it work.

 

[Mufasa123]

If you happen to be limiting your total carbs, putting more or all of them around training makes sense. This is consistent with above but a scenario.

 

[JaredLinez]

unless you are a pro eater, you are going to have a real hard time doing 250 pre , 100intra, and 250 post.

If it were me I would spread it out throughout the day.
Meal 1 :100
Meal 2
Meal 3:100
Pre : 50, post 50
Meal 5:100
Meal 6: 100

I did win a pie eating contest in high school many years ago!

Thanks for the advice everyone

 

[Eguz22]

If you need massive amounts of carbs, either because you are a lean-ectomorph type or because you are a big bodybuilder, then the distribution Lucky has proposed is adequate.

Now, personally, I would like to have some no-carb, high-fat meals, so I could concentrate the carbs in the meals around work out. To fill up the calories I would opt to include more fats.