icecream or sweets day before show

[kiwibrian]

ok guys heres a tricky one and you long term bodybuilders will know where im coming from . sugar , as in ice cream sunday day before show for bring those veins out . what do you think

brian

 

[MS]

It depends on what your previous weeks prep is like. Do you mean ice cream the same day as the show?? I usually have fat free ice cream with choc sauce on the evening before the show as part of my muscle refilling, but it depends on whether you manipulating sodium and potassium or not, and whether you've been dieting with very low fat or not, and depends on how much you're going to restrict you water or use diuretics. As a general rule of thumb you should avoid introducing anything into your diet that you haven't done a trial run with to see how you respond. If you haven't tried ice cream before, then you should just stick to foods that you have been dieting on. If it's a sugar rush you want on the day of the show, then ice cream is prolly not the best bet. Save it until after the show. Try some niacin and jelly beans instead.

 

[kiwibrian]

thanks alot , icecream seems to do wonders for me

regards brian

 

[Canadian Cobra]

Anything high in sugar is good the morning of the show and between
pre-judging and finals. I wouldn't recommend it the day before.

48-72 hours before the show (before pre-judging) you should be carbing up
(assuming you were carb depleting for at least 10 days).
The morning of the show try pancakes with lots of syrup and butter.
In the few hours before the show have anything with sugar - candy, icing sugar etc.
Between pre-judging and finals have more of the same.

Let us know how it goes.