Chapter
Eating Carbohydrates Late at Night
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Ingesting carbohydrates late at night can potentially fill glycogen stores and provide energy for morning training, despite traditional advice to avoid carbohydrates late in the day, and can promote better sleep due to the sedating effects. High carbohydrate meals at the end of the day can also aid with weight-cutting for athletes.
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Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Work Week, explains that eating the majority of carbohydrates in the last meal of the day, despite traditional advice, can fill glycogen stores and allow for effective fasted morning workouts, and even has sedative effects for better sleep.
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Nutrition
Summary
Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Work Week, explains that eating the majority of carbohydrates in the last meal of the day, despite traditional advice, can fill glycogen stores and allow for effective fasted morning workouts, and even has sedative effects for better sleep. He also shares that many athletes use this strategy when cutting weight.