I am currently on week three of meltdown training. Which means I’m just about ready to keel over and die. Great workouts. Anyway, this week requires two workouts a day. Does this mean that I should be drinking two servings of Surge? One for each workout. If so, will this have any impact on the T-Dawg diet as far as carbs go? I have heard that having a high carb shake after a workout won’t kick you out of ketosis, but I didn’t know if two would. Thanks in advance for any help.
I would use the Surge after the weightlifting workout, but not after the lactic acid interval training. Maybe 1/2 serving after the interval training, but it is a small training session designed to produce a lot of lactic acid rather than to exhaust energy stores, so I don’t think that you will need it. Start with none and add a 1/2 serving if you find yourself really lagging.
You don’t need to consume a Surge after your intervals. I only use it after the am weight workouts and it’s worked just fine. As Jason said, you’re not burning an appreciable amount of cals during this part of the workout. I simply wait 1/2 hr. or so after the cardio and then have a normal P+F meal, usually 5 egg whites w. 2 whole eggs, six fish oil caps, broccoli/cauliflower and a large salad w. vinegar/lemon juice. Also, you don’t have to be in full-blown ketosis to get the job done. I used to be absolutely paranoid about this, literally going through a 50 ct. bottle of the suckers in five days (can you say OCD?). Then I basically just stopped using them, I think it was right after I read Lyle’s book, and just kept measuring b.f. with the calipers once a week, and guess what? I found the ketosticks were useless. Chris (Shugart) has also said the very same thing about the sticks. Now when I diet I don’t go down to those abnormally low carb levels, but I just keep it to around 100 g/day. I found I can’t control my carb-ups so this approach works MUCH better for me. Also when I did the really low carbs I would get so gaunt in the face and depleted I literally looked like a concentration camp victim. Now at 100 g/day I achieve the same low b.f. levels only I look and feel much better. Probably more of an answer than you wanted, but sometimes I get on a roll.