Carb Cycling For Accelerated Fat Loss?

[disturbed311]

I read an article on Testosterone Nation talking about carb cycling. I've heard about it before but never put its principles to use. Have you fellas had any success with it? I think i'm going to do a High carb day, Low Carb day, and then a 'zero' carb day... So they it will be 3 day mini cycles. This also works perfect with my workout schedule because i do 2 on 1 off, so my day off will be the zero carb day... I might do a little cardio.. Anyways how does this look?

Stats:
6'5"
260
25

Just lookin to burn fat.... Peace

 

[jaybois]

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[Ingram]

I always carb cycle.

Hit the cardio hard on your depletion day!

I think the 3 day routine is too short...

I'd go at least 5 days. You should also manipulate your fat with the carbs... ideally you should have the same calories everyday. Adjust your fat cals to make up for the increase/decrease of carbs.

1- High carbs (low fat)
2 -NO carbs (mod fat)
3 -low carb (low fat)
4 -low carb (low fat)
5 -low carb (low fat)

 

[disturbed311]

Ok, so on the low carb days with my bodyweight being 260, should i aim for around 200?? and what about the high carb days? 400? thanks ingram for your time

 

[Tatyana]

There are some threads on here to work out your required calories for the day, then you have to split up the total calories you need into the percentages of protein, carbs and fats.

Otherwise you are just guessing at what you will need. Everyone is different.

I run three days low carbs (I am at about 50 g/day) then one day high (200 g/day).

My fat is low on high carb days, and around 70-90 g on low carb days.

Personally, I couldn't do NO CARB days, cause that would leave very little to eat, I can't go without veggies, and I think you can get the same effect without such drastic measures.

Get some keto sticks to check your urine everynow and then to see if you are in ketosis. You don't want the sticks drastically changing colour, (mine only shift after cardio on empty) as the ketone bodies are also used as fuel in the body (in particular the brain).

Carb cycling is often used for competition diets, you may want to try something more suitable for day to day living, like carb tapering or carb curfews, which is stopping all starchy carbs (like bread, rice potatoes.........) after 4-5 in the afternoon, and only eating fibrous carbs (leafy green veg, broccolli, cauliflower) in the evening.

You keep the protein more or less constant through all of this.

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