Pre contest tips or advice

[chiefwiggum]

Do not take out the dextrose, it's key for post recovery. Replaces your glycogen almost immediately and since it's only replacing what energy you burnt at the gym it won't be stored as fat. The slow release carbs (i.e rice, oatmeal, etc) low glycemic carbs are the slow release that can be stored as fat, since they can't immediately be broken down like simple sugars can.

We always argue about this point and I may be wrong so plz don't quote me.

Wiggum

 

[RGC3]

Good luck Big Aristotle,

It is a little too late to change your diet right now. You should have posted 8 weeks ago. This way you'd get a lot of good advise.

My advice is:
1) Take a post w/o carb shake for glycogen replenishment! I take dextrose but a lot of people use malto.
2) Take some kind of mono or poly unsat fat. I use Flax seed oil or nat PB.
3) Do a strict water depletion. Start cutting your water intake the last week before the show. Barley drink any water the day of the show. Just sip on water all day. This will help with any water weight left in the body. You can also take water pills but I don't recommend this!
4) Do a carb depletion /reload the last week of the show. This will help you lose any extra fat as well as pump the muscle up like balloons.
5) Take Glutamine before w/o, before cardio and before going to bed. This will help you with keeping a lot of your muscles during the diet. Too many people lose a lot of their hard earned muscles during their diet. You might have fallen into this fate because of the no carb after w/o diet.


But good luck again.

 

[110%]

i agree with a lot of the advice given out by rcg3, basically by looking at your diet i believe you are going to lose a looooot of muscle mass if you are doing 1 hour cardio each day before your first meal and working out, then on top of that only eating a few calories in the morning and none postworkout. i think you should add some carbs definitely postworkout and maybe some more in meal 2, it looks like your diet right now is split into like a 95%, 5% protein/carbs macronutrient breakdown, you wont retain good muscle with that. also i dont know how u guys can do one hour of cardio each morning, if you think you can still get chiseled with lowering the times and sessions to maybe 4 i would do that.

 

[semi1979]

anybody now anything about tapering off of cytomel???