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Originally Posted by kfisherx
...for a specific use. Let me be more specific.
Since starting my cut (I am doing bbing right now) I am restricted to 120g which is not low but also not great. This especially since many of the carbs are consumed pre and post workout. For the most part I find myself gravitating towards vegetables and fruits for carb sources. I just tend to like them better than most other sources.
My bbing "bros" are trying to tell me that fruit is not a good carb source for fueling me. The bro-logic is this. An apple and a .5 cup of oats have the same macros. Which one fuels the workout more? On some level I want to say the oats, but that is because I add milk and maybe some sugar to it. LOL! Seriously.... Is there any one source of carb that is better than another as I start to fine tune and diet down.
I know for a fact that there are research articles written on this topic at a broad level but does that research also apply to someone really looking to maximize every single calorie?
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Bros get where they are physiquewise through a mind-numbing consistency of high effort in completing the basic requirements day in & day out. All the cute little tricks they think are the "keys" actually don't make a gnat's assworth of a difference.
You know why BBing bros are afraid of fruit? Neither do they
. These are the same guys who would pass up 2-3 fruit servings for a serving of empty-calorie dextrose or waxy maize. Go figure.
One day a looong time ago, a bro got leaner after cutting out his fruit intake. Little did he know he could have cut out any number of non-protein calorie sources (actually even protein if it was in excess of growth or maintenance reqs) and achieved the same result.
The most knowledgable/intelligent BBers I know make sure that fruit is one of the "last carbs standing" in a cut after everything is eliminated as necessary. Fruit is ideal for dieting from the perspective of nutrient density/energy scarcity. There are also some boring esoteric reasons that fruit is an ideal carb during dieting because of their effect on hepatocellular swelling and subsequent anabolic signaling in the face of a generally catabolic milieu, but this would confuse the bros.