since carb are cheaper than protein, can I make my body to turn only the carb I eat for energy, and leaving the protein so it can be used for muscle growth?should I just eating carb before workout and eating protein afterwards?
>>77203306I kinda did this by accident as a teen. The doc told me to do push ups to fix my pectu excavatum, so I just did very high reps of calisthenics, which I worked up to in big chunks (increased by like 50 reps every time I got bored, so very irregular since I didn't know about progressive overload). Did like sets of 250 (bad rom) pushups and stuff like that in the end. Did like 750 or 1000 a day. Anyway, I couldn't gain weight no matter what. and I ate a load, much more than the fat people in my class, much more than adults. I had literally no rest days at all except when being in the hospital once, I only did push ups, sit ups or crunches, dips and pull ups, some squats and also several ytpes of supermans on the floor, all with super shitty rom, "just get the reps in, bro". Pros:>Always super lean with perfect abs from any angle - I did never check body fat, but it was probably like 8% or something crazy, I had no fat on me>When I started weights later on, I was pretty fucking strong too, for some reason, benched like 2xBW (I was very light weight ofc) after a few months >Never got tired, everCons>Always sore muscles>No explosivity at all, absolutely hopeless at sports>Really bad for boying/wrestling for some reason, in spite of everyone always saying low weight high reps is the way to go for martial arts>Needed lots of food, a day going hungry meant nosebleeds and such thingsAnyway. I did this from like 13 to 22 or so? The chicks loved it. Then I got a hernia, then I got hypothyroidism, had to stop lifting and now I am fat and ugly, BUT I am now explosive and still strong-ish.Excses my rant, but imo high reps (in the hundreds and more) are indeed the secret to becoming and staying lean no matter your diet or lifestyle.
