Hey BTP- on carb cycling, if i workout first thing in the AM and am running a Push, Pull, Rest Day, Legs, Rest Day schedule when do you recommend the high and low carb days here?
Would ideally put high carb day around leg workout just not sure if it would work better on leg day or the rest day prior given the early morning workout.
Excellent nuance to be noted here. Above mentioned is a more generalized protocol assuming training sessions are anywhere from late AM to evening timeframe.
Similarly train first thing in the AM as well - I posture the *prior day* as the "glycogen replen" day.
Your example: Glycogen depleted post push + pull sessions (maybe even LISS/short HIIT session on morning of "rest" day). Muscles now "spongy" & craving glucose to be shuttled for storage. Blast the high carb day to be fueled for lower body session.
Test A vs. B for at least 2 rounds where:
A = refeed/high carb on day prior to legs session
B = refeed/high carb on day prior to start of cycle (push-day)
If responding well + still insulin sensitive + weight dropping ~0.5-1.0% BW/week, can even explore doing both days.
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Hey BTP- on carb cycling, if i workout first thing in the AM and am running a Push, Pull, Rest Day, Legs, Rest Day schedule when do you recommend the high and low carb days here?
Would ideally put high carb day around leg workout just not sure if it would work better on leg day or the rest day prior given the early morning workout.
Excellent nuance to be noted here. Above mentioned is a more generalized protocol assuming training sessions are anywhere from late AM to evening timeframe.
Similarly train first thing in the AM as well - I posture the *prior day* as the "glycogen replen" day.
Your example: Glycogen depleted post push + pull sessions (maybe even LISS/short HIIT session on morning of "rest" day). Muscles now "spongy" & craving glucose to be shuttled for storage. Blast the high carb day to be fueled for lower body session.
Test A vs. B for at least 2 rounds where:
A = refeed/high carb on day prior to legs session
B = refeed/high carb on day prior to start of cycle (push-day)
If responding well + still insulin sensitive + weight dropping ~0.5-1.0% BW/week, can even explore doing both days.
Makes sense thank u, I will try running that and see how I respond.
So under my schedule a low carb/lower cal day would likely be a training day ie; my actual leg day?
Also running 20-45min LISS every day except leg day. 20 min on push/pull days, longer on rest days
would you recommend one weekly fast? or more sporadically?