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Carb cycling is essentially varying the amount of your carb intake depending on your requirements and goals. Carb cycling is done with low, medium and high carb days. Usually you will have low carb day on rest days, moderate days on smaller muscle groups and then high days on big muscle groups such as leg and back day.
However, sometimes you may have a higher carb day on a rest day if you require it depending on how your body composition, weight and the way you look. It can spike your metabolism and help fill out your muscles if you are looking flat.
The bottom line is it's about using carbs in a specific way to optimise body composition and performance whilst maximising your tolerance to carbs (sustaining insulin sensitivity) to support maximum recovery and growth when it needs it.
One reason why carb cycling works so well is because you are not unnecessarily forcing carbs into the system when you don't need them which helps protect you against insulin resistance, which is essential to long lasting muscle growth and fat loss.
Do I believe in carb cycling, absolutely, but not in a traditional way. The traditional carb cycling is used by many renowned coaches and they use it incredibly well. However it is a complicated process for most to remember i.e. exactly which day is low carb day, which day is high carb day?
How I structure “carb cycling” is through utilising "********' . How this is done is pretty much having low enough carb during the week so that you are burning fat while still having energy to get through every workout and then having a high carb day on your rest day. When you **********, you are to consume as much high glycemic carb as you comfortably can, without feeling miserable. The more processed the carb the faster it will fill your glycogen store.
This is to rev up your metabolism again and filling your glycogen store so you feel energised to push through another week. When you have a structured diet plan in place, *********** not only allows you to progressively getting leaner but you will look incredibly hard and full the day following the refeed.
This should give you a better overall understanding of how using carb cycling can be a great way to eat for lean mass.
However, sometimes you may have a higher carb day on a rest day if you require it depending on how your body composition, weight and the way you look. It can spike your metabolism and help fill out your muscles if you are looking flat.
The bottom line is it's about using carbs in a specific way to optimise body composition and performance whilst maximising your tolerance to carbs (sustaining insulin sensitivity) to support maximum recovery and growth when it needs it.
One reason why carb cycling works so well is because you are not unnecessarily forcing carbs into the system when you don't need them which helps protect you against insulin resistance, which is essential to long lasting muscle growth and fat loss.
Do I believe in carb cycling, absolutely, but not in a traditional way. The traditional carb cycling is used by many renowned coaches and they use it incredibly well. However it is a complicated process for most to remember i.e. exactly which day is low carb day, which day is high carb day?
How I structure “carb cycling” is through utilising "********' . How this is done is pretty much having low enough carb during the week so that you are burning fat while still having energy to get through every workout and then having a high carb day on your rest day. When you **********, you are to consume as much high glycemic carb as you comfortably can, without feeling miserable. The more processed the carb the faster it will fill your glycogen store.
This is to rev up your metabolism again and filling your glycogen store so you feel energised to push through another week. When you have a structured diet plan in place, *********** not only allows you to progressively getting leaner but you will look incredibly hard and full the day following the refeed.
This should give you a better overall understanding of how using carb cycling can be a great way to eat for lean mass.
