Tassadar has failed us

My grip strength completely failed today. I was about half way through my workout doing finger push ups before the shooting pains from my hands, up my forearms I couldn't take anymore and had to stop or potentially risk serious injury. :(

Went to the mall and one of those Asian massage therapy places and had them massage my forearms for 15 mins, then went do to Brookstones and used the hand massager on my forearms, they are sore but feel better. My hope is that after a night of rest I'll be recovered and be able to continue working out on Saturday at the latest.

I think I'm going to have to tone it down, I just over worked myself last week with all my regular workout stuff plus the rock climbing gym. The rest of me feels fine and strong, except my forearms.

Rest.

I usually go to this really nice place for my massage but they don't do 15 minutes and I needed something ASAP. So I'm in this place in the mall, with my face down and the women walks away from me to the counter and breaks the loudest fart I think I've ever heard in a retail setting. Like if you work retail and you have to let one go you let it out slow or go to the bathroom or something but don't let it all out rip in front of customers that's just messed up.

I've been consuming under 50 grams of carbohydrates for a few days now, probably part of the reason I'm having such a hard time recovering. (this is why nutrition is so important!) And I started thinking about spiking blood sugars, fat/digestion and muscle replenishing and I came up with a few questions / points I need to research the answer too.

• Depending on the carbohydrate type and number of carbs, how much do I need to take before my body is kicked out of fat burning mode and into fat storing mode? IE when insulin decides it needs to come out and mess everything up.
• Fat slows down the digestive process, that way your blood sugar doesn't get spiked too quickly. How many grams of fat does it take to cause a significant enough slow down to eat "X" number of carbohydrates?
• How much glycogen do "X" exercise expend per rep/set/% of 1 rep max?
• How much protein absorption can the muscle take after a work out when the body is trying to refill glycogen stores?
• How many carbs -> glycogen do our bodies actually store, I know its stored in the muscles and liver but how much? What the "number"?

I have questions and I'm searching for answers, I don't know if I'll find them, but I dam well is going to try, because my forearms just hurt too much to do anything else, including type anymore.....