Ok, I am 200, going for npc light heavy weight this saturday (in 3 days). Once I take my diuretic, taraxatone, epsiom salt bath and cut my water intake, I should be find to make weight. I have had limited carbs below 50 a day since monday. I will carb up friday at 6 and 9 with simple carbs of 60 grams a piece from white rice with lean chicken 70z.
Day of competition
morning simple carbs 50 from white rice and 4 oz chicken breast 730am
weigh in is at 1030am. so I will probably be weighed closer too 11. after weigh in ill have rice cakes peanut butter and 4 0z of chicken
30 mins before vegetable glycerine (2 table spoons and a full sugar soda)
12pm is prejudging. ( since im a light heavy weight I will probably have to wait a while to get on stage for prejudging, maybe 130 , 2pm im thinking.
I have never taken any drugs or professional grade diuretics or etc.
only diuretic im taking is taraxaton.
Is this sound right? because this is advice from a soon to be pro in michigan.
Others tell me complex carbs a day before instead of simple carbs like white rice?
I thought fiber will hold water though? what gives. This is confusing the hell out of me lol
I know it’s individually specific, but some people carb up for a few day leading up to the competition, not just the day before.
Here’s one site’s guidelines on prep strategies:
[quote]4) Carb Status Is A Factor
How many carbs to eat those final 2-3 days will vary from bodybuilder to bodybuilder. Eating 90 grams a day while dieting? Guess what; 500 will make you watery as a broken dam. Eating 400 while dieting? Loading on 400, 500, or 600 will leave you flat. As a rule, the fewer carbs you ate while dieting, the fewer your carb needs while loading. Likewise, if you eat a lot of carbs while dieting, youâ??ll need plenty to bring you back. I advise most bodybuilder to eat 2 times the amount of carbs they ate while dieting during the carbing up phase, the final 3 days. For example, is a bodybuilder dieted on 100 carbs, he can load on 200. If, for the most part he dieted on 300 carbs, then he would need up to 600 a day the final three days. Keep in mind, you should not be training the final two or three days so you do not need massive amounts of carbs to fill the muscles out with glycogen. Simply by not training, the body will fill out and bounce back from having gone through a depletion phase [/quote]
Those are Chris Aceto’s word ^^^
By the way I must add you look pretty good in your avatar. Good luck!
Simple carbs when you carb up for a show. You’re trying to refill your glycogen stores in your muscles so that you appear fuller (larger) onstage. The day of the show you will actually see your body change right before your eyes, so let someone you trust evaluate how you’re looking.
(I hate when someone is referred to as a “Soon to be” anything,. unless it’s a college degree, nothing is certain and it comes across as pretty arrogant when you hear people use it referring to themselves… just a pet peeve of mine).
Mighty stu, thanks for the advice! So lets say im cutting it close with light heavy at 200. Should i just have two simple carb meals for my last two meals on fri.
Ya a friend of mine was saying complex, that didnt make much sense to me, thanks for clearing it up!
For my first show I was very concerned about not making my target weight class. As such I undercarbed a bit. If my plan was for 50-75g of carbs every couple of hours, I’d go with 50g. I also barely ate before the weigh in, afterward though, I kept a 2 hour eating cadence, making sure I filled out as much as I could in the time available. It really is a fly by the seat of your pants process in that you can’t know exactly how many grams of carbs it will take to fill you out. Sure, you can approximate how much your frame, when fully depleted can hold, but it’s never 100% accurate enough to allow for “268.2g between 7-11 am Saturday” type of predicting. Also, I wouldn’t worry too much about protein. Sure I usually have a small amount of protein (chicken) with my Saturday first feeding, but for the rest of the day, I doubt I ingest anymore at all. It really does all come down to keeping your muscles ‘full’, but not so much that you start to bloat. My best advice would be to take notes as accurately as you can, so that you can look back afterward and assess what worked, and what you should have done differently.