Maintaining Fitness - Proposed routine

[max_ratcliffe]

I cut out sugar about three weeks ago. For the first week, my legs felt empty and I HD'd on a couple of workouts that weren't supposed to be taxing at all. Muscle glycogen stores depleted?

I'm no nutrition expert, but I would think that carbs are carbs, and your body shouldn't have any trouble if all you've done is eliminate added sugars. Presumably you're not getting rid of all the other carbs in your diet, which should be more than enough to compensate for the missing sugar.

Hmm, you're probably right. Hadn't really thought it through to be honest. I reduced other parts of my food intake, too, more than just cutting out the sugar. Certainly my rowing was poor for the first week or so, but it may just have been a coincidence.

[MartinSH4321]

I cut out sugar about three weeks ago. For the first week, my legs felt empty and I HD'd on a couple of workouts that weren't supposed to be taxing at all. Muscle glycogen stores depleted?

Still on the weight-loss gig but my body has got used to not being so sugar-addled and after that one shocking week, things are back to normal.

You may just be going through an adjustment period without actually losing any real fitness.

Sugar works like a drug, you'll have withdrawal symptoms for a couple of days where you feel empty, grouchy and unmotivated, this fits good to the things that happened for the first week. This will normalise, no need to worry.
Ombrax is right, you don't need any added sugar, but take care to eat enough polysaccarides.
I also try to avoid added sugar and had the same problems at the beginning, but it feels great now

[max_ratcliffe]

I cut out sugar about three weeks ago. For the first week, my legs felt empty and I HD'd on a couple of workouts that weren't supposed to be taxing at all. Muscle glycogen stores depleted?

Still on the weight-loss gig but my body has got used to not being so sugar-addled and after that one shocking week, things are back to normal.

You may just be going through an adjustment period without actually losing any real fitness.

Sugar works like a drug, you'll have withdrawal symptoms for a couple of days where you feel empty, grouchy and unmotivated, this fits good to the things that happened for the first week. This will normalise, no need to worry.
Ombrax is right, you don't need any added sugar, but take care to eat enough polysaccarides.
I also try to avoid added sugar and had the same problems at the beginning, but it feels great now

Ah - withdrawal symptoms. I hadn't thought of that.
I'm all good now, and this thread's not mine - really was just trying to suggest to Jim that one bad session does not mean that his routine won't work for him.

[JimS]

The best threads generate good discussion! Haha.

I think it's hard to tell. So many variables go into performance. It might be the sugar, it might be something else.

I think we get better at figuring this out with experience, but its still guess work.

Yeah. I'm reasonably happy. Made the active choice to prioritise the weights, So will need to see this out for a while