nice lil forum here
ok here's my throw for the team...
if you want to replenish glycogen stores, ya need carbs, sure if ya consuming more than ya coloric fair share, its likely to be stored, and what does our clever body store it as?.. fat.. but if you are bulking more cals are better than less. so carbs are fine in my opinion if growth and recovery are goals in mind.
GI carbs... if ya wanna get ya body storing and making use of the nutrients ya put into it, ya have to make use of growth hormone, released mostly in stages 3 and 4 or ya sleep, now to help and make better use of that GH release ya need insulin... in the same way and for the same reasons bodybuilders will go on insulin when on HGH. So if you create an insulin spike by eating the correct GI carbs at the right time.... your GH release will coincide with the insulin spike and make for better muscle growth and repair. That theory would lend itself to eating carbs before bed.
to be fair im tired and just thought id chuck in some ideas.
and on that not g'night!