Basically I’m off to Disney World for 2 weeks at the beginning of August, currently around 3 weeks into cutting from my last trip to Spain. I’ve been using Primaforce ALA and Acetyl-L-Carnitine just cut carbs this week from 150g to 50g which I’ll follow for 2 more weeks.
I’m then considering the get lean quick scheme for the final week:
I’m just trying to get down as low as possible and prime muscles to uptake as much glycogen as possible for the endless all you can eat breakfasts etc.
I’ll be starting Animal Cuts 3 weeks out with fish oils (14th July) and then taking a tub of cuts away with me along with ALA and Acetyl-L-Carnitine to try and offset the effect of these cheat meals. Obviously there’s lots of walking so this will also help me slightly.
So, there’s the background info but my questions are:
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Do I also train before breakfast to rev my metabolism and try to make the most of the extra carbs I’ll be eating?
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Is the get lean quick scheme a good idea providing i have a few days off with high carbs before i start training (around 4 days in to allow supercompensation)
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Anything else I’m doing wrong/could improve on.
Cheers.
[quote]LeoFresc wrote:
So, there’s the background info but my questions are:
- Do I also train before breakfast to rev my metabolism and try to make the most of the extra carbs I’ll be eating?[/quote]
When my wife and I went on a cruise a few years back, I got up early and hit a quick bout of cardio in the ship’s gym before breakfast. Of course I wasn’t really banking on some amaing fat loss, but hoing for a bit better insulin sensitivity throughout the rest of the day. Also, I never did this on an empty stomach, I made sure I had a bottle of Mag-10 buried deep within my suitcase for my pre-morning cardio sessions as well as carrying around when we went on various excursions where I might not have access to eating as often as I’d like.
For my actual weight based training, I would do that later in the day or evening after I had a few decent meals in me and the session would be more productive.
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- Is the get lean quick scheme a good idea providing i have a few days off with high carbs before i start training (around 4 days in to allow supercompensation)[/quote]
I understand the article is a variation on what a lot of athletes and physique athletes do in terms of depleting and loading, but I’m personally never a fan of eliminating both carbs and fats. Many times when a client is especially carb sensitive, I’ve found success by swapping out most carbs with fats (while keeping cals exactly the same). As there are either still enough carbs in the diet to keep the body thinking of them as the prefered fuel source, or the body hasn’t yet fat adapted, so long as you’re not overeating, most of the fat will seem to go through you (contrary to the old “fat makes you fat” theory).
In actuality, the added fat will not only slow your digestion of other foods, but you will feel fuller longer as a result.
Also, (I had never read that article all the way through), carbs do much more than extra protein in terms of preventing the muscle loss that accompanies a severe diet.
S
Thanks for the input, yeah fat loss is out of the question with all you can eat breakfasts, hopefully i get sick of the waffles and pancakes by day 2!
I’m just trying to minimise fat gain, so would some form of HIIT and a quick gym session in the morning with fat burners before breakfast boost metabolism and make myself as insulin sensitive as possible, bare in mind I’ve been eating low carb for 7 weeks by this time and training 4x a week with added hiit, therefore minimising fat storage?
I’ve read that you walk up to 12 miles a day at Disney World and spend lots of time on your feet so I’m hoping this extra calorie deficit will minimise the effect of the evening meal, which I’ll also have fat burners before, ive heard this helps?
I’m hoping after 2 days i feel shit and clean things up slightly, but as a Brit we don’t get your lovely greasy food much over here.
I dropped around 4kg over two weeks in the Maldives a few years back. All you can eat food, all you can drink booze, etc. It was part of a summer long cut before going back to university and I still had an amazing time. Here is what I did, trying to make use of the minimal equipment the gym had to offer:
Diet:
Each meal I had only one plate of food with about 3/8 of the plate being some protein source, 2/8 being some carb source (some pulses usually), 3/8 being whatever green salad I wanted. For breakfast the protein source was usually 1-2 omelettes or some cured meats/ham. For lunch/dinner it was usually crap tonnes of reef fish/crab. Booze was kept to a minimum… maybe 1 drink a night average… but then Im not much of a boozer. I had desert a couple of nights a week. I drank as much free green tea and black coffee as I could get my hands on. Before each meal I would drink a free bottle of water also. With me I also had a small bag of protein powder and I would have a scoop between meals with water.
Training:
Generally kept active on holiday with a lot of swimming, snorkelling, frisbee, walking, etc. Evenings I would do an easy 30 mins walking on the treadmill or around the island. Weights wise I think it looked something like this:
10x1-5 pullups (on a childrens climbing frame)
4x10 overhead BB lunge
4xmax pushups
Assorted vanity work… usually an arms superset.
I did this every other day from what I remember.
Not exactly high tech but I came back a little stronger and a good deal leaner!
EDIT: It’s a shame I didn’t have any magical Dominican Republic mangoes to eat over my sink for maximum vacation gains but such is life.