alt Hacker NewsCarbs are extremely helpful for strength, but there's a middle ground between ketosis and the standard American diet.
Most who lift and do low carb time their carbs before and after workouts for specifically this reason. Some also do carbs before bed.
But the rest of the day is close to no carbs. This still works. You can get < 100g of carbs a day and not have strength and energy negative impacts.
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ludicrousdispla • last Wednesday at 5:57 AM
I would rewrite your last sentence as:
You can get < 100g of carbs a day and not have negative impacts to your strength and energy.
> Most who lift and do low carb time their carbs before and after workouts for specifically this reason. Some also do carbs before bed.
This is exactly what I do. I have a have a pre-workout carb meal to try and compensate.
Though one interesting thing I've noticed is that I've intentionally had to eat carbs as my body fat percentage has decreased. Otherwise I feel very low energy (though to be fair, I think part of it is that I'm still very active on my rest days, usually doing 20 - 30k steps). I think with higher body fat my body could simply burn that fat for energy, whereas that surplus simply isn't there.