You’ve got people who want to improve the way their body looks (mainly wishing to lose fat), timing it around events (carb loading before a photoshoot, or bodybuilding show) or for sporting events, like a marathon or long activity. Mainly to do with the variety of reasons why someone would want to cycle their nutrients. So what does the science say about calorie and carb cycling?
Training more often than I had been previously and did it intensely.I didn’t know for a fact that nutrient cycling was the reason for these results. So calorie and carb cycling must be my best friend, right? I’d lost fat and built muscle at the same time. He had me changing my calories and tampering them down as the week went on.Īfter several weeks, I had done exactly what that magazine had promised me. I stuck with it for a few weeks and then returned to my usual pattern of high carbs and calories every day, regardless if I trained or not.įast forward a few years, and I attempted it again. My attempt to follow it through wasn’t that successful back then. Going off memory, I maybe had gained 30-40 lbs at this time, so I wasn’t a noob in the gym. On my days off, I lowered my calories to the amount I needed to maintain my current weightĪt this point, I was no longer a skinny guy. On days when I trained, I consumed both more calories, and more carbs. Protein is consistent throughout all days and is the variable that is unlikely to change. The standard rule is, one day is higher than the other (be that in calories, and/or carbs) and that day tends to be a training day. You might eat 200g of carbs on your training days and your 100g on your days off.You might eat 4000 calories on your training days.This is where you cycle between different amounts of calories and/or carbs on certain days vs others. It was the secret to having my cake, and eating it too (literally).īut before I get into the results and how it affected me, let’s talk about what it is. To the right-hand side of the diet was a guy wrapped in a tank top, juiced up to the max with nothing but oil on his skin.Īt the time I had built some muscle (around 15 lbs or so), so I thought, this must be the secret I’d missed all along. The article claimed it was the ultimate way to time your nutrition if you wanted to build muscle, and maximise fat-loss (or stay lean while bulking). It was in an issue of muscle and fitness magazine. 380-381.I remember when I first read about calorie cycling. American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), ACSM’s Resources for the Personal Trainer, USA, ACSM, 2014, pp.
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