Competition diet to complement a plyometrics / aerobic approach to training

[Sassy69]

I just started working w/ a guy who focuses on things like core strength training & plyometrics. My goal is to cut down for an NPC figure show in 8 weeks. Its an agressive schedule but I'm gonna see what I can do w/ it. Muscle is an issue - need to drop some or reshape what I have. I'd expect to drop about 20 lb & 10% bf to go on stage at 5'7", 140 lb, 9-10% bf. (Note some of the weight would be the carb deplete & water deplete the last week)

The training is different from my typical contest prep because I'm going from BB to figure and have a lot of mass already. But really need to streamline & drop the bodyfat. Also had some soft tissue problems w/ a rotated pelvis a year ago -- Straight weight training tends to aggravate my lower back & the tight connection to my hams that resulted so very interested in using the concepts around pilates & plyometrics to work that just for improved health.

So my question is how do you (or do you?) change a typical competition diet to match a higher rep / more aerobic training regimen? Any comments, thoughts, questions, suggestions welcome! This is a new experiment for me & I'm planning to be very aggressive about it for the next 2 months.

Thx!

 

[Lifterforlife]

You are quite right that this is totally different, yet basically the same. I have a couple friends who did this, switched from bb competition to figure.

As you state, they both did the same type workout you are addressing, but stayed with a bb competition style diet. Very high protein, high fats, low carbs. Caloric decreases as needed.

One of them competed in the same show I did in May. She placed second(got robbed if you ask me). But she did great.

 

[Sassy69]

So maybe there's really no change? I'm thinking I might keep the protein down a little - I guess I'll really have to see how much energy I have to match the training demands.

I appreciate the input

 

[Cynical Simian]

stayed with a bb competition style diet. Very high protein, high fats, low carbs. Caloric decreases as needed.

Agreed. The different routine doesn't warrant radical changes to the diet. The only major difference, other than not needing to cut calories quite as much since you'll be burning a bit more with this workout regimen, would be timing/amount of carbs depending on how/whether depletion workouts fit into your prepraration.

 

[Sassy69]

Thanks for the refocus. I"m still waiting to get my complete schedule, but I think its going to be on me to create an appropriate diet to support it. I haven't done heavy aerobic stuff in a long time so I'm not sure if I'll see a change in carb requirement. The protein I was wondering about in order to watch the total cals. But sounds like its still pretty simple