Carb Cycling Meal Questions

Nutrition
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Ive been doing a lot of reading into carb cycling and think I am finally going to begin following the guidelines. I did all the basics laid out in the Carb Cycling Codex article, but I have a few questions.

First here is how mine came out:

Age: 22 Height: 6’2 Weight: 200lbs

Caloric Intake for mass gain: 4,205 calories.

So, my first question. When calculating your BMR the article shows a chart with correlating activity level factors. For most who train it would be 1.6, for light activity such as office working and normal day to day moving but not training you would use 1.4. I based my entire daily caloric intake using 1.6 to arrive at 4,205 calories every day, training and non training. Should I have different caloric needs on training days vs. my off days?

Also, Im currently in a mass gain phase as I wrote above. I split my High, Mod, and low carb days up as indicated in the article. I am wondering about carbohydrate consumption on each day for both training days and non training days. He has listed that 50% of my carb intake should occur postworkout, which would be like 180grams! This seems quite a bit high, I currently use 70g of Vitargo post workout. Also, whats the carbohydrate split look like on non training days? thanks! Also, if there is other articles available that I have overlooked covering these questions please let me know. Thanks

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[quote]ssavan01 wrote:
Should I have different caloric needs on training days vs. my off days?
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Yes.

You could also probably average your expected burn across the week to an average daily value.

As for pre-carb workout suggestions, I’ve seen values ranging from none to 30g (fat loss) to 150g (the most your body could probably come close to using).

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I like to take some of that fifty percent and have some of my carbs at breakfast, makes a huge difference for me.

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I was wondering the same things as I am also doing CT’s Carb Cycling Codex. For me most of the days my activity is a 1.6 and I increase that by 10% which puts me at 3,452 calories and on my low activity level only at 2,588 calories.

I also did the math a bunch of times with my height and weight, 5"10 185lbs, and the split between carbs, protein, and fat just didn’t seem right. Well, the protein and carbs seemed fine but it came out to 136g of fat a day. Moderate days looked like this: protein and carbs 278g each and 136g of fat. Higher days put me at 348g of carbs with everything else remaining the dame and low days 208g of carbs (45g fat). For my workout carbs that would put me at 174g for high and 139g for moderate days. Seems like a lot of waxy maize starch. lol