RedheadedScouser

@ishaandaar

Information Security professional and subtly a problem solver | Die hard liverpool fan who never gives up on food, booze and Hope🍻

Texas, USA انضم Şubat 2013

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Le président Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, accompagné de l’ensemble du groupe sportif, a rendu hommage aux victimes de la tragédie d’Hillsborough, avant de se recueillir sur le mémorial dédié à Diogo Jota et à son frère André Silva, à Anfield, en amont du match face à Liverpool ce mardi. 🕊️ Demain, avant le coup d’envoi, une minute de silence sera observée en mémoire des victimes du drame d’Hillsborough. Les joueurs porteront également un brassard noir durant la rencontre.

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RedheadedScouser@ishaandaar·1d

@CoachDanGo Isn’t 100 gms a lot Dan, am looking to cut my fat here but love the idea of dried mangoes.

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Dan Go@CoachDanGo·1d

A cheat code I use for my workouts is 100 grams of dried mangoes. Learned it from an old coach of mine years ago and never looked back. When you’re training hard, your muscles can pull glucose directly from your bloodstream without needing insulin through something called GLUT4 translocation. It’s like a bypass lane that only opens up during intense exercise and 100g of dried mangoes hit that lane perfectly. It’s fast sugar to spike blood glucose quickly while tasting delicious. Why does this matter mid-workout? Intense training runs almost entirely on glycogen. Once those stores start depleting, your explosiveness drops, your pump disappears, and cortisol spikes to compensate. A few pieces of dried mango between sets keeps the tank from hitting empty. The glucose also pulls water into your muscle cells at an intracellular level meaning better hydration, fuller contractions, and more blood flow exactly when you need it. Low blood sugar mid-session is a low key reason why most people fade in the back half of their workouts. The result is you perform better, sustain output longer, recover faster, and leave the gym less wrecked than you otherwise would. It’s also a great excuse to eat dried mangoes giving me one more reason to look forward to working out.

Noah Ryan@NoahRyanCo

Always saw the biggest guy at my college gym eating sour patch kids inbetween his sets and my underdeveloped brain could not comprehend why a man so jacked would eat something so taboo (this was peak low-carb era). But now I understand. Fast carbs (glucose, dextrose, sucrose) enter your bloodstream immediately. Working muscles sucks that glucose out of your blood via GLUT4 transclocation, independent of insulin. You bypass the usual metabolic bottlenecks and feed your engines mid-burn. High intensity training is heavily dependent on glycogen and glycolosis. Burn through your glycogen stores and your performance suffers. Less explosiveness, no pump, more cortisol. Keeping your muscles fueled mid-workout gives you everything you want and need. Glucose has an osmotic effect. It pulls water into muscle cells and hydrates you at an intracellular level (very anabolic btw). You get better bloodflow, bigger/fuller muscles, better contraction. You can sustain peak output for the entirety of your workout. Its not just your muscles that are being fueled either. Your brain is a glucose hog. Low blood sugar during long sessions is the leading cause of fatigue and poor motor output. Hence why glucose microdosing is beneficial for cognitive tasks as well (especially hybrid psycho/physiological tasks like martial arts, sports etc.) Better yet, exogenous glucose blunds cortisol-induced tissue breakdown. Extremely anti-catabolic. You perform better, you feel better, you recover better, and you leave your workout less fried than you otherwise would. All while giving you a perfect excuse to get your sugar fix in guilt free.

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RedheadedScouser@ishaandaar·1d

@propsMCFC He has been brilliant for City! Indeed a smart signing

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