5’9" 160-165lbs right now. My ultimate goal (170lbs ripped). I have been training seriously and eating clean for close to 1 year now. I train 3 times a week and HIIT cardio once a week.
After talking to my trainer the other day, he mentionned a C/P/F ratio of 50/30/20 and 3000 calories. This is pretty close to was CT recommands in his article “The Truth about Bulking”.
I used fitday.com to get an idea of where I was at. Well, here are the results:
OFF Day 1:
3822 calories
C/P/F = 30/34/36
OFF Day 2:
3972 calories
C/P/F = 28/35/37
Gym Day:
4252 calories
C/P/F = 33/36/31
As you can see I am far from 3000 calories and a C/P/F ration of 50/30/20. What should I make of this???Is not getting enough carbs a problem???
(I eat foods like cottage cheese, nuts, fruits, flax meal, pb, eggs, egg whites, milk, oj, green tea, chicken, vegetables, sardines, steak, fish, broccolli, olive oil, mrps, w/w bread and pasta, seafood…)
[quote]hit the gym wrote:
good point. thanks[/quote]
remeber the intake as well I dont care who tells you the amount its a guesstimate and will need to be adjusted to fit you. if your were advancing to your goals eating the higher amount like you were then stick to it.
Its obvious that you need to gain if your ultimate goal is to be heavier than you are now and leaner you need a lot more mass and have to eat for it. that may mean that 3800-4000 range or more.
Do the Natural Hormonal Enhancement or Anabolic diet if you really wanna gain muscle weight and keep bodyfat somewhat the same as you gain. The diets truely work, no joke! That’s your best bet.
Do the Natural Hormonal Enhancement or Anabolic diet if you really wanna gain muscle weight and keep bodyfat somewhat the same as you gain. The diets truely work, no joke! That’s your best bet.
[quote]Corona’n’Lime wrote:
Do the Natural Hormonal Enhancement or Anabolic diet if you really wanna gain muscle weight and keep bodyfat somewhat the same as you gain. The diets truely work, no joke! That’s your best bet.[/quote]
Those diets don’t work.
I would love to see your “non beginner gain” results from this diet.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Corona’n’Lime wrote:
Do the Natural Hormonal Enhancement or Anabolic diet if you really wanna gain muscle weight and keep bodyfat somewhat the same as you gain. The diets truely work, no joke! That’s your best bet.
Those diets don’t work.
I would love to see your “non beginner gain” results from this diet.[/quote]
Are you saying this about the Anabolic diet? Because I had nice results from lowering my carbs and upping my fats. Muscle comes from the workout obviously, but I was leaner and maintned/gained strength/mass.
[quote]sasquatch wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Corona’n’Lime wrote:
Do the Natural Hormonal Enhancement or Anabolic diet if you really wanna gain muscle weight and keep bodyfat somewhat the same as you gain. The diets truely work, no joke! That’s your best bet.
Those diets don’t work.
I would love to see your “non beginner gain” results from this diet.
Are you saying this about the Anabolic diet? Because I had nice results from lowering my carbs and upping my fats. Muscle comes from the workout obviously, but I was leaner and maintned/gained strength/mass.[/quote]
I am very much saying that about consistant results on the original “ABCDE anabolic diet”. If there is another by that name, that is not what I am referring to.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
sasquatch wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Corona’n’Lime wrote:
Do the Natural Hormonal Enhancement or Anabolic diet if you really wanna gain muscle weight and keep bodyfat somewhat the same as you gain. The diets truely work, no joke! That’s your best bet.
Those diets don’t work.
I would love to see your “non beginner gain” results from this diet.
Are you saying this about the Anabolic diet? Because I had nice results from lowering my carbs and upping my fats. Muscle comes from the workout obviously, but I was leaner and maintned/gained strength/mass.
I am very much saying that about consistant results on the original “ABCDE anabolic diet”. If there is another by that name, that is not what I am referring to.[/quote]
I’m not sure about ABCDE…, but my modified version of the Anabolic I chose was a 50/40/10 f/p/c with Sunday a free day. It was something I followed for close to 2 months about a year ago and I had quite nice results. I just can’t live at that level.
T-Dawg type diet is more liveable for me, but I was harder and lighter after my 2 months for sure.
Typically I would be around 40/30/30. I’m not a counter though, so most of my diet is my interpretation of what I eat.
[quote]sasquatch wrote:
I’m not sure about ABCDE…, but my modified version of the Anabolic I chose was a 50/40/10 f/p/c with Sunday a free day. It was something I followed for close to 2 months about a year ago and I had quite nice results. I just can’t live at that level.
T-Dawg type diet is more liveable for me, but I was harder and lighter after my 2 months for sure.
Typically I would be around 40/30/30. I’m not a counter though, so most of my diet is my interpretation of what I eat.
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The original ABCDE diet involved going two weeks on low carb (low calorie) and then two weeks on higher carb (higher calorie). I remember trying that and simply making no progress. Clearly we are discussing two completely different things.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The original ABCDE diet involved going two weeks on low carb (low calorie) and then two weeks on higher carb (higher calorie). I remember trying that and simply making no progress. Clearly we are discussing two completely different things.
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This is quite different than the low carb/high fat diets I’m familiar with including the Anabolic Diet and it’s offspring as per Dr DiPasquale.
[quote]T234 wrote:
eengrms76 wrote:
T234 wrote:
I would never eat carbs on non workout days.
Why not?
Well, tell me the science behind why you think they would be beneficial on non-training days.
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Carbs are needed for recovery more than just PWO. Can you give me any science as to why you shouldn’t have them? How do you ever think you’ll build any muscle if you don’t eat carbs? Even CT’s carb-cycling approach advocates plenty of carbs on non-training days.