Cycling Carbs 13 Weeks Out

Nutrition
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The guy thats helping me with preparing for my show started me off on a carb cylce that looks as follows
Mon-high-200g carbs
Tues-high
Wed-high
Thurs-med-150g carbs
Fri-low-50 to 75g carbs
Sat-low
Sun-low

I’am also supposed to eat 1.5 grams of protein per pound of bodyweight and i weigh 175 pounds. I’am 5 foot 8 and the last time i was tested for bf% it was around 12. If you need any other kind of info let me know and ill post it asap.

He has me doing this for the first four weeks. I’am curious if this is smart and if it will help lean me out? And what exactly is the point to carb cycling? Any suggestions about altering it our anything like that would be a great help!
Thanks!

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Look up the Carb cycling codex.

I don’t know why you’d have 3 high days in a row.

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thanks that helped a lot does it make sense that he had me cut out all milk and fruit from my diet?

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[quote]Bone160 wrote:
thanks that helped a lot does it make sense that he had me cut out all milk and fruit from my diet? [/quote]

yes.

read up on fructose (including reading on FigureAthlete.com, where I believe there was an article written about fruit in the last few months). As for dairy, it also keeps you bloated, I believe.

also, I’m interested in how your training plan fits in with your carb cycle posted above… what days do you train? what days do you have off? which days are heavy, which are lighter, etc…

dan

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Mon-chest tris calf raises 20 min cardio
Tues-back bi abs 20 mins cardio
wed-legs abs
thurs-shoulders calf raises
friday-abs 30 mins cardio
sat-legs abs
sunday-off

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[quote]Bone160 wrote:
Mon-chest tris calf raises 20 min cardio
Tues-back bi abs 20 mins cardio
wed-legs abs
thurs-shoulders calf raises
friday-abs 30 mins cardio
sat-legs abs
sunday-off[/quote]

Carb Cycling is pretty common sense really. Your more taxing days (heavier days, more volume days) will require more carbs (due to glycogen depletion), lighter days will be moderate, and off days would be low.

Milk has alot of sugar in it and it is very insulinemic suppose that is why they had you cut it out. Fruit, however, I am not sure why that is cut out, I would think people wouldn’t cut that out till they were sub 10. The sugar in fruit is not bad, actually their is considerably more glucose than the “evil” fructose in sugar. I would still eat fruit but then again I have never dieted for a comp…

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Milk usualy is a big part of diet and I used to get a moderate amount of my protein and carbs from it. Would it hurt in the long run if i had a glass of milk each day, and stopped when I got closer to the show?