[quote]ZSebag wrote:
Is the Carb Cycle done correctly?[/quote]
Well, for the carb cycling you would just increase carbs on workout days. On your off days, based on your numbers, you would be getting 28% protein and carbs with 44% fat.
For workout days just pick a percentage of your diet that you want to come from carbs; it will obviously be higher than the number of grams for off days. So for off days you have 28% carbs, maybe make this 40% carbs for training days.
At 20% increase, your cals would be 4254. 40% of that is 425 grams of carbs roughly.
Try it out, but take this for what it’s worth since i’m no expert but at 165lbs i’m not sure you need that many carbs.
You know what? After reading MeinHerzBrennt’s post, I think that if figuring out a CC diet is difficult for you, maybe it’s a sign that it’s a liiitle too advanced.
And at 165, I don’t think that there’s any real reason for you to be stressing yourself out with a fairly difficult diet like that. Go with the “Clean Bulk.”
The 500 kcal difference should come from your PWO shake. So the only difference in your WO vs. non-WO days is the addition of a PWO shake to make up the difference.
I did the carb cycling calculations a little bit ago @ 162. I used 1.5g/lb bw protein and 1.25g/lb bw carbs though, with the rest fat. I’m trying to lose about 5 more lbs though so I’m at -20%. My fat calculation was at 50g. I’ve been consistently going over though by close to 30g, and cutting back on the carbs except for lift days.
From the above calculations, you are about 28% protein, 28% carb, and 43% fat. It looks like you did the fat calculation right, but you might want to try upping your protein a bit.
[Edit: I just realized the Mein did the same calculations.]
I’ve been doing the carb cycling and I think I will use it when I start focusing on adding weight. Like Brant said, the only difference for me is the PWO shake + either oatmeal/rice/sweet potatoes with my veggies and meat for dinner or just a salad with some olive oil with my meat and veggies.