Group: Specific Diets & Nutrition

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calories on cardio day

JustinE22
JustinE22
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2005/02/13, 04:43 PM
i was just wondering if you should vary your calories depending on lifting weight and doing cardio. Because on a cardio day i don't drink my PWO shake so i've been making those calories up by eating some home made protein bars and what not. Should i keep my calories the same every day or drop them on cardio days?
kakaroto
kakaroto
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El Salvador
2005/02/13, 08:19 PM
i will say same amount, althou if you cutting, probably just om cardio day, you could drop a bit you caoric intake, but preferely from carbs, not protein
bb1fit
bb1fit
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2005/02/13, 09:22 PM
Protein synthesis and caloric requirements are elevated from after trainng for about 36 hours. If you are training 4-5 days per week, chances are you will be training another muscle group in this time, so it would make sense to keep calories up.

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JustinE22
JustinE22
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2005/02/13, 09:37 PM
yeah.. right now i'm training 7 days a week. with 4 days weight training and 3 days of cardio. so keeping my calories the same as on a weight traing day as a cardio day would be the way to go for me.