Fueling the Burn: Timing Your Gains
Like Duolingo, but for Fueling the Burn: Timing Your Gains. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Fueling the Burn: Timing Your Gains
- Carbohydrates as foundational energy
- Glycogen as the storage form
- Energy stores limit repetitions
- Consequences of exhausted stores
- Muscles pull from local glycogen stores first during high-intensity work
- Performance drops significantly once internal sugar stores are exhausted
- The mechanism of how the body packages dietary sugar for muscle storage
- The sequence of energy usage and depletion during a training session
- The performance consequence of depleted energy stores during a workout
- Simple sugars enter the bloodstream quickly for immediate use
- Complex carbs provide a sustained release of energy over time
- Fiber-rich foods like oats take too long to break down before a fast-approaching workout
- Simple carbs provide a quick but short-lived energy burst
- Why fruit is preferred over oats when training starts in 15 minutes
- The relationship between carb complexity and energy duration
- Blood flows to the stomach for digestion instead of the muscles during exercise
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Fueling the Burn: Timing Your Gains the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When you are preparing for a heavy lifting session, which macronutrient serves as your muscles' primary energy source?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Fueling the Burn: Timing Your Gains takes you
Move beyond basic calorie counting to master the science of nutrient timing. Learn how to strategically use carbohydrates and proteins to power through heavy lifts and accelerate muscle repair.
- 1
Priming the Engine
- The Glycogen Gas Tank: Storing Energy for Lifts
- Slow vs. Fast Carbs: Choosing Your Pre-Workout Fuel
- The Role of Amino Acids Before You Start
- Hydration and Electrolytes: More Than Just Water
- 2
The Recovery Window
- Muscle Protein Synthesis: Turning Food into Fiber
- Insulin's Role in Transporting Nutrients Post-Lift
- The Truth About the 'Anabolic Window' Timing
- Refilling the Tank: Post-Workout Carbohydrate Needs
- Managing Inflammation Through Whole Food Choices
- Sleep and Digestion: The Final Stage of Recovery
- 3
Fine-Tuning Your Strategy
- Adjusting Portions for Heavy vs. Light Days
- The Impact of Training on an Empty Stomach
- Supplements: Enhancing a Solid Food Foundation
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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