Pre contest load double edge sword.
When using trial and error to give everything a chance to see what will work for your own needs is something very difficult.Difficult in a sense that you can work your ass off and feeling unsure in the trial of what your doing to reach your goal but you have to see it through to remove any doubt there was a chance it might have worked.The traditional 3 day carb load was not for me.My best condition was August 2nd the last high fat day,I was the hardest and most ripped I've ever been,but in no way was I in contest shape.When people give compliments on how you look they really have no idea what real contest condition looks like so I try not to respond with anything more then thanks.Now what I've learned is many things most of note for my own genetic pre programming is that I'm extremely carb sensitive.After the first day of the Mike xxxl carb,fat,water load I was terribly unsure but I had to see it through.I know I can get my condition back in less then 7 days and try what I feel works from what I know about myself from my own experience but I had to try this even know it goes against my #1 rule "there's no X amount of carbs fats water or time you can give anybody to do anything in regards to there body for there specific goals and needs".This was research that MikeXXL did it had sound reasoning and I felt if this is how the pro's suggest to do this I gotta try it once.After 3 days of it today being day 4 I knew it was a mistake but now I know and that's the discipline to try things and learn that you'll never truly know your body until you give everything that has worked in the past for bbr's a chance.What I should've done after seeing how successful my high fat days were would be to have 1 high fat day coming from lean beef and the following morning do everything the same as it's been with my morning oats and half the amount of egg whites for the sake of stomach distention and eat a lot of bing cherries before the stage or a photo shoot, those natural sugars made my abs look like rocks and a lot bigger and vascular as well.There was actually another time I feel I peaked also WEEK 14 I was doing 45 min 3x a day of cardio at which point I had veins in my back veins crossing my chest and carbs were extremely low.Which tells me that had I did a high fat day with no carbs then the following day my normal breakfast with half my egg whites and 1 cup of oats followed by the load of bing cherries I would've been at my peak.This was a success in my eyes I learned more from this experience then any book or any so called guru could ever possibly tell me about how my body works
"The most valuable lessons in life cannot be learned they must be lived"
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Originally Posted by energizer bunny
good work
