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Gob to muscle time

Khannie · 2009-03-10 15:08:15

Can someone tell me how long it would take the energy from, say, a bowl of porridge to be available in your muscles for use? How would that differ from a sports drink? (I expect the sports drink to be available a lot faster of course, but I mean in actual time) No "piece of string" type answers please. :P Even…

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Can someone tell me how long it would take the energy from, say, a bowl of porridge to be available in your muscles for use?

How would that differ from a sports drink? (I expect the sports drink to be available a lot faster of course, but I mean in actual time)

No "piece of string" type answers please. :P Even approximations will do. I'm trying to decide how long before training to eat my dinner (a bowl of museli today).

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Found this pretty useful table. Looks like I need to eat pretty soon. Not hungry at all.

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