How long does it take YOU to store carbs as muscle glycogen?

[MassiveXLG]

Since recently dieting to a lower bodyfat, I can see more fluxuations in my body and how it looks and reacts to food. Therefore I can experiment with diet and certain foods and how much of them more effectively

I do legs on monday, so I decided to carb load on monday. I had approx 600-700 grams of carbs maybe 70% of which were "clean". My leg pump was pretty much normal, and so was strength. I spread my carbs evenly throughout the day, and had trained at night.

The next day About 8-9 hours I woke up holding a lil sub q water, but looked reasonable fuller muslce wise, nothing nuts though, my muscles werent pushing against the skin like when your really full. So I wernt back do my usual diet I had at the time for the day and trained chest at night. I was full as fuck. I got a good pump warming up. By the time i was in the middle of my working sets I had a mind blowing skin splitting pump. And this was 20 hours away from my last high carb meal of the day previous. Heres a brief layout of the schedule

Monday - 700g carbs spread evenly from 8 am to 12pm trained at 7pm
results - normal pump

Tuesday - 200g carbs spread evenly from 8 am to 12pm trained at 7pm
results - full, hard, and vascular as shit during training.

How this is relevant? If i want extra carbs to give myself to train a weak body part with to give it a better workout, It seems for me to have those carbs the day before. But then I see people waiting to carb up the morning of the show and going to dennys getting pancakes. Possibly they store the food as muscle glycogen faster than me? What about those dudes that munch on candy backstage? Theres no way you can increase fullness within a few minutes of eating candy.

So whats your guys carb up protocol? I ve heard of competitors carbing up 5 days out.

 

[bieberhole69]

If you're fully depleted you store up faster.

If you're using insulin, you store faster.

Carbs you digest easily will also fill you up faster (or it seems so to me).

I usually come off every weekend having 2 days of keto and push 300-500g before I train on Monday and am noticeably fuller and ready to go.

But you also have to figure out how many carbs it takes for YOU to get full.

It's supposedly 20-24hrs to full recovery FWIW.

 

[Gravel]

Approx. 72 hrs out from show time I start carbing up....for approx. 36 hrs. My goal is to carb up until I begin to spill over which took me last year around 1700g of carbs. I spend the next 36 hrs drying out drinking water and eating only protein, veg and fats.