Here is a lil’ article about how I do and would carb up for safest & most predictable results;
One week out your show you need to determine how depleted/flat you are, if you are very depleted you will have to start your carb up Monday afternoon, if you are not too bad you can start Tuesday afternoon. My choices of foods are Oatmeal, Chicken & steak. For all food choices I would pick whatever you have been eating leading up to the show, at this point you do not want to introduce anything new and cause any kind of shock or allergic reaction which will make you hold water. So if you ate potatoes, chicken and peanut butter that would be your choices.
So here it goes:
Monday before the show, train half your body, higher reps in the 12-15 range, 6-8 sets per body part, in a 2-0-2 tempo, nice controlled raps, also use comfortable weights, nothing too heavy, at this point you will not be getting any bigger anyway, and DO NOT TRAIN LEGS ANY MORE, just upper body.
Tuesday afternoon, for me it’s 5:30pm train the other half of your body same way as Monday:
Right after training 7:00pm consume 100-120gm of carbs from simple sugars, my choice here is natural rice cakes.
9:00 60gm of carbs coming from oatmeal
11:00 40gm of carbs coming from oatmeal
Now onto Wednesday, total carbs for this day should be 450gm, each meal is eaten with 2-3oz of chicken and 1-2oz of steak, or 2-3oz of chicken and ½ tablespoon of peanut butter. I do not respond well to peanut butter so I do not use it. Maybe I have an allergy. Divide all of that into 7 meals and you are ready to go. Decrease your carbs as you go through the day, for example if your first meal is 80gm of carbs, your last one should be 20gm of carbs, and all other somewhere in between 80-20gm.
Thursday all the same rules apply as on Wednesday, just the total carbs is 350gm.
Friday once again all the same rules except 250gm of carbs.
Water intake is as high as you can go; drink as much as you can 2 gallons a day should be more then enough. On Friday drink 1 to 1-1/2 gallons by 5:00pm (or the time that would represent 18 hours before the pre-judging for your show). At 4:00pm take your first diuretic, I prefer Dyazide or Aldectazide as they are potassium sparing and still are very effective, so the chances of getting into trouble are very small. I take 25-50mg of once of those diuretics 1 hour before cutting my water. Around midnight or 1:00am I will check my condition and depending on my appearance I will either skip the additional diuretics or take 25mg and go to sleep.
Saturday of the show, I take 12.5mg-25mg of diuretic just to keep me dry, more or less precautionary reasons.
In the morning of the show I fat load, at this point all bets are off and you can eat whatever it is you are craving, for me its egg omelet, hash browns, toast with jam, donuts, cherry Danishes, basically anything that has simple carbs and fat in it is good for you at this point, remember to get drastic results and hardness as well as vascularity you must use drastic measures, that’s why all that junk food, don’t worry with no water you wil not spill over, after that meal just cruse through eating oatmeal and chicken and steak. I feel this is a very safe and effective way to carb and fat load that will make you look hard, dry and full, if you are going to follow this advice, fallow it to the “t” otherwise your results will not be optimal. Any question post below and I will try to get to the soon…peace…XXL
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Originally Posted by juicyr6
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