Originally Posted by
GearHeaded
just in case anyone is wondering why someone would want to deplete glycogen before going into a bodybuilding show. I'll explain..
super compensation--
heres a crappy analogy.. think of a small bucket of water that physically can hold 1 gallon of water, but the water supply is such that it only fills it 3/4 of the way full and this is done by a signal that the bucket is sending to the faucet,, when the bucket gets down to half way it slowly trickles in more water until that 3/4 mark again. it aways does this slowly..
now say the bucket spills and is now completely empty, lets say the bucket and faucet see's this as a state of emergency and the faucet is turned on full blast, when the bucket gets to that 3/4 full mark and 'then' sends the signal to the faucet, which is going full blast, by time the faucet registers that signal and turns off , its actually filled the bucket way past the 3/4 mark and now the bucket is completely full.
it 'super compensated' because of the presumed state of emergency being without water all together..
Same with glycogen storage.
if we deplete all of our glycogen store this is a bit of an emergency situation to the body. Then we suddenly and rapidly with a bunch of Insulin and a shit ton of Carbs blast the body with all this glucose the body will then fill up these glycogen stores to a much greater capacity then they were before, because its super compensated.
now with a lot more glycogen and water in the muscle cells , the muscle will look much bigger, fuller, rounder, and harder.
and to tie things back to the topic of this thread, insulin can be used as a tool to help accomplish this
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