BREAD Carbs for Training Good or Bad?

aquaman · 13-01-2011 1:09pm #1

Hi all,

I get a lot of my carbs from bread in the form of sandwiches at work, toast with an egg (or two) in the mornings etc.
It's generally wholemeal bread.

I train regularly and am trying to build muscle at present.

When looking over my diet I realised the proportion of carbs from bread is quite high. Most nutrition advice I've read appears to advise complex carbs should be sourced from rice and pasta.

I'm wondering should I be revising/reducing the ammount of bread I'm eating?
Quite difficult as carrying a tub of rice or pasta is not as handy as a sambo or 2 but if REALLY necessary I guess I could try.

All comments/opinions appreciated.

Bottle_of_Smoke · 13-01-2011 2:44pm

I'd say fine when building muscle and training regularly

FTGFOP · 13-01-2011 2:55pm

I wonder why the draw a distinction between pasta and bread? They're both wheat carbs

El_Dangeroso · 13-01-2011 3:15pm

This Tour de France team replaced wheat with other carbs and found their performance improved:

http://www.mensjournal.com/winning-without-wheat

YMMV.

aquaman · 13-01-2011 4:59pm

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

This Tour de France team replaced wheat with other carbs and found their performance improved:

http://www.mensjournal.com/winning-without-wheat

YMMV.

aha... now thats interesting. 8000 cals/day! crazy.
I'm assuming the volumes of wheat they were taking in allowed the toxins in the wheat products to become a problem. And that at much lower intakes most people wouldn't be as affected. Would be an interesting trial to cut out all wheat products for a few weeks!

Menu w/o wheat looked pretty good mind you.

aquaman · 13-01-2011 5:00pm

fair point FTGFOP. seems from el dangerouso's article that there probably isn't much difference.

13-01-2011 5:44pm

Anything I've read on gluten indicates that even small amounts of it in your diet can bring some of the negative side effects not only but particularly if you're extremely gluten sensitive.

I also reckon the triple of gluten, yeast and sugar/starch does nasty things to my digestive system. Besides you can get much more nutritient dense sources of carbs in sweet potatoes & butternut squash.

aquaman · 13-01-2011 5:50pm

columok wrote: »

I also reckon the triple of gluten, yeast and sugar/starch does nasty things to my digestive system. Besides you can get much more nutritient dense sources of carbs in sweet potatoes & butternut squash.

Sweet Potatoes without another dense carb usually leave me hungary shortly afterwards. Love em as a side though.

EileenG · 13-01-2011 9:10pm

If you are training hard, you can get away with a fair amount of bread, but you need an active lifestyle and intense exercise.

Personally, I'd go for less processed carbs, potatoes, brown rice, root veg, wholegrains (not Cheerios!), fruit, porridge.

If you ever had to make bread yourself, you'd know the amount of work and processing that goes into it.

BREAD Carbs for Training Good or Bad?

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