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Your hypertrophy training is only as good as your recovery.

So if you're not, if your appetite is an issue in getting nutrients in, then that 45 minutes to an hour or however

long it takes you to train, shouldn't take you that long. But if you can't get nutrients in to

accommodate for that stress you put on your body, your hypertrophy training is no good.

Yeah.

Because you can't recover from the bouts of activity and you can't come back to fight another

day. One of the levers that I didn't pull that I needed to was inter-workout nutrition. That was something. I actually wrap with Paul Carter about this. I'm like, do you really think it moves the needle? He's like 100% it does, especially if in your caloric restriction, if you're in a situation where you're training 45, 60 minutes, like having some carbs into workout ends up kind of helping a ton and it actually helps with some pumps. Did you ever do like the Cuban athletic program and drink like a Coca-Cola on the field? No. Just to get some sugar in you or anything like that? No, I, so. You play around with like Vitargo or like this?

I played around a lot with Vitargo.

Yeah.

So back in the day, the bodybuilders I was training with were taking the sink called the kitchen sink.

So, so they would, they were using insulin and they like would use, I think it was Lantis, which is the longer acting, but then they would use a short acting before. And then once they got done with the training, they would go do this, take this shake that had like three or 500 grams of carbohydrate with the targo. Whoa. They would add protein. They would just dump everything they could. They had these like fucking protein shakes that like came in test tubes. They would just dump everything and it was called the kitchen sink. And then they would consume this shake that was like a thousand calories. And then these dudes would literally, I'd just watch them go and they would just blow the fuck up. They would like dude like I couldn't believe they looked like they were going to explode. And I was like, man, what's this Vitargo stuff? And that was kind of how I got in the Swedish Waxi Maze. But I used Vitargo, like in a small bolus in my pre and post workout. And then we'd use it as some intra workout. I never really noticed the inter workout stuff. But when I was funny, I was rapping with Paul Carter about this. He's like, yeah, the intro workout stuff really only becomes apparent when you're in caloric restriction.

Right. And he goes, you know, like in being able to partition, you know, he's real big on like, you know, and like, because I hit him up when I was having some trouble sleeping. And he's like, you know, moving, you know, and partially had talked about moving carbs to before bed as a way to kind of control cortisol and like you know relax the nervous system he's like yeah 100% like

your biggest carb meal should be you know you should have carbs pre during

post and then your biggest carb meal should be at night so I think it ended up

working because it ended up kind of blunting the cortisol and

actually helping me sleep a little bit.

I just think once I got too deep in the chloric restriction, it was like four hours

and I was like a shotgun out of bed.

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