Carb Cycling?

[buffedmama]

What is this? And what are the benefits from it?

(I apologize for my ignorance! You people are the best, by the way, I'm learning a lot daily and seeing some good results!)

 

[spatts]

Wilson6 turned me on to eating like that about 1 1/2 years ago. I use it to drop fat, and to gain mass, either one.

I think I was attrracted to the common sense of it. You eat to fuel what you're about to do. If I'm going to workout, I ear fuel (carbs), if I'm not going to workout, I don't.

What results is GREAT workouts with just enough fuel to get the job done, but not so much of an excess that creating a deficit becomes a problem (read: A$$ gets wider).

 

[RottenWillow]

Hey I just read all about that on an old thread here. I have been
trying it for about 2 weeks and it has really helped me with my
workouts. I just wasnt eating enough carbs apparently and that was why during some workouts my strength went down, just didnt have enough fuel in me.

 

[lonelybulldawglover]

....Lost...in info land

Anya,
Do you remember where you saw the details on the carb cycling in the old posts? I'm starting to get lost in all of this! I tried the search function and I came back here. -- I'm such a pathetic newbie.
Thanks!

 

[spatts]

Ya mean this?


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My cutting diet looked like this:

http://www.asylum-strength.com/spat-cutting.htm

You would have to alter the times by when you train, and cycle the carbs 3 days low (.5g/kg body weight) and 2 days high (2.0g/kg body weight), or high on training days and low on non training days. The diet in the link represents the 100g CHO median.

1Kg = 2.2046 lbs

 

[lonelybulldawglover]

Thanks..

Thanks Spatts!
I'll give this a whirl

 

[RottenWillow]

I also adopted a modified version of one of the training routines I found on an old thread. That helped my gains substantially. The way I am using the carb rotation routine is to eat at least 150 complex carbs the day before and the day of all workouts and then drop way back on non-training days. I am a secretary and when I am not training I am real sedentary. I was always afraid I would get porky if I ate big so I avoided carbs, but then I wondered why I was often weak during my workouts. The first couple of sets I was fairly strong but by the third exercise I was weak as a ragdoll.

This site totally blows all other female boards away on real training and nutrition content.

 

[sk*]

Hey spatts,

Is there an article on this I could read?

Thanks.

-sk

 

[sk*]

Hey spatts,

Is there an article on this I could read?

Thanks.

-sk

Found it:

http://www.massmonsters.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=9506025911&f=5636038281&m=7386038281



-sk

 

[spatts]

That's similar to what I do, but not quite.