cycling carbs

[hardasnails73]

Spats i'm in total agree ment with you about carb cycle. I'm just coming off of a contest (where I won the over all at the NPC delaware and placed 15 th in NPC junior naitonals as light heavy weight, and won the light heavy weights at NPC lehigh Valley ans should have won overall but thats another story) Any way i'm still under 5% and will remain there for a while with care full monitoring od caloric intake and watching the mirror and come up slowly cuurently on traininng days my carbs are 250-260 at 450 gram protein and about 80-100 grams of fats. On non work out days all I do is HIT cardio 20-30 minutes at night time and knock out the post work out meal of 440 caloires so it brings my caloirc in take down some plus extra cardio which from doing it 3 times a week interval sprinting and biking has made maor impact on my thickness and seperation. Be fore you start spatting out about drugs and what not. I have not been on any drugs for 3 months and all my test were even cut 4 weeks prior to that even. I'm a firm believeer in BCAAS to help preserve lean body mass before during and after hard training , as well as glutemine which helps with recovery. So carb rotation does work it just depends on so many factors to get an actually account of how many caloires are actually necessary. in gaining I go between 17-18 caloires times lean boy mass and cutting I notice i start to tighten up around 2700 with 5 days cardio. in the next year through manipulation of diet and leanring my body I hope to pack on a good 15 solid lbs and repeat my conditioning this year. Also realized that Post work out is for muscle recovery not from recovering from glycogen depletion from cardio !! So word to the wise seperate cardio and weight training by 8-12 hours you will thank your self (only if time permits )

take care
hardasnails

 

[SteelWeaver]

Do your cals bounce over and under maintenance? Or are you staying under all the time? (You said earlier you have cheat meals, though, didn't you - guess it follows a similar metabolic principle) I found by the 2nd-4th day or so after a refeed my legs would start turning to wood, then lead, then it would hit my whole body, til I could barely drag myself out of my chair at work. But within 2 hours of starting my refeed I'd be able to walk quickly and normally to the station, then I'd sleep very well that night, and get the most enormous pump at the next day's workout.

Did you actually get the glucose sensitivity test done? Mm, can't remember what MS said about that on the other thread, but I thrive on carbs.