Hows this look for carb cycling?

[energizer bunny]

Monday=chest=178 grams carbs

Tuesday=back/abs=233 grams carbs

Wednesday=shoulders=178 grams carbs

Thursday=arms=178 grams carbs

Friday=legs/abs=233 grams carbs

Saturday=rest=58 gram carbs

Sunday=rest/cheat day/refeed=??? grams carbs

im doing cardio twice a day normally mon-thur...no cardio friday...once a day sat and sun.....but at the end of every 8 week weight routine...i ad a third session weeks 7 and 8 mon-thur....and a second sat and sun.

any input welcome....

cheers.

[M302_Imola]

looks prett good...you might want to bump up your high days (legs and back) to 300-350g of carbs. The extra cals will jumpstart the metabolism as well!

[energizer bunny]

^^^^^^interesting....im cutting does that make a difference to your post.....i didnt think id have to go that high....

thanks

[eatrainrest]

your not that carb depleted for a refeed IMO.. i like 1 day weekly refeed on leg days and the rest probly at around 150g carbs with the day before your refeed sinking low to around 50g or so.

[energizer bunny]

thanks eat.....refeed....wey at the min its more of a cheat day....i know i shouldnt....but it keeps me sane and i enjoy it........over time i am planning on phasing it out.....so much to learn..

[eatrainrest]

mon-legs-carb up-300-500
tues-150g
wed-50g
thursday-back-300-500
friday-150
saturday-100
sunday-50

[energizer bunny]

is this what you would recomend... or what you do??

cheers

[eatrainrest]

itd be something that i would recommend (i dont do carb cycling it Fks me up. i generally just do lower carb dieting.

currently maintenance/lean gaining

workout days=230g carb
non workout days=150g carb

cardio PWO 4x weekly 2 days 20-HIIT
2 days 30-LI

[collar]

your high carb days to your lower end is not much of a different, i would give it bit more of a deficit if you want to refeed.

another thing if you were to lower the carbs a fair bit lets say to about 100g.
which is most defently ok all you have to is just increase your EFAS.

[energizer bunny]

Eatrainrest...its all new to me so im just seeing what works...maybe i wont be able to handle carb cycling either.... thanks.

collar.......il be taking a tablespoon of fish or udos choice oil with 4 of my 7 meals and evvo with one....would you say up that if i lower the carbs??

would me lowering the low days to 150g be better? or will that not be low enough??.......with the cardio ill be doing for the next 2 weeks??

thanks..

[energizer bunny]

bump...

[FireGuy]

your high carb days to your lower end is not much of a different, i would give it bit more of a deficit if you want to refeed.

another thing if you were to lower the carbs a fair bit lets say to about 100g.
which is most defently ok all you have to is just increase your EFAS.

Ditto, a true carb cycling cut would be more like, 50-50-50-250 repeat.

[energizer bunny]

ok excellent....thanks..i will a just as i go on.

[collar]

Eatrainrest...its all new to me so im just seeing what works...maybe i wont be able to handle carb cycling either.... thanks.

collar.......il be taking a tablespoon of fish or udos choice oil with 4 of my 7 meals and evvo with one....would you say up that if i lower the carbs??

would me lowering the low days to 150g be better? or will that not be low enough??.......with the cardio ill be doing for the next 2 weeks??

thanks..

well fireguy posted a good breakdown how you should go about it, for carb cycling.

also for efas i would increase them where you drop your carbs for that day.

personally if i dropped 200cal worth carbs, i will increase about 15 to 200 cal worth of efas.

but as general rule for myself, i try consume about 10g of efas most of not all meals.

then they get increased if carbs decrease.

see what combination works for you.

thanks fireguy, for getting back to him.

[energizer bunny]

again...thanks... reed and fireguy..

[M302_Imola]

mon-legs-carb up-300-500
tues-150g
wed-50g
thursday-back-300-500
friday-150
saturday-100
sunday-50

I like this split and have had good success cutting w/ something similar to this.

[thai-lan]

is there anything that i could read about carb cycling??

[Orlando Rocket]

is there anything that i could read about carb cycling??

Use the search tool at the top right corner of the diet forum, you'll get about 4 pages of threads. Plenty of good info already in the archives.

[Orlando Rocket]

Ditto, a true carb cycling cut would be more like, 50-50-50-250 repeat.

Are you recommending to only eat 50 carbs a day for 3 days then refeed at 250? If so wouldn't you have to be very careful when lifting to keep the intensity low at only 50g of carbs a day to prevent muscle catabolism?

[Orlando Rocket]

mon-legs-carb up-300-500
tues-150g
wed-50g
thursday-back-300-500
friday-150
saturday-100
sunday-50

I like this split and have had good success cutting w/ something similar to this.

^ 2x

[eatrainrest]

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