Carb cycling for the next 4 weeks

thintribe2014

I'm sticking to just over 200 g of protons daily with about 90 g of fat and the remainder as carbs and give myself a kick for the last month to defeat the plateau I'm in, My TDEE is 2700 cals
If I take an average of 150 g of carbs a day currently and carb cycle and reduce my carbs for 3 days to "let's say 60 g" and then on the 4th day increase these to say 330 g would this be pointless because the carb intake over the four-day period is exactly the same as if I was linear?

Badger_Girl99

Carb cycling is a bit confusing to me - I'm in the midst of it right now (week 3 of four total weeks) and I'm failing miserably. I'm doing alternating low carb/high carb days with Saturday being "cheat" day. I think all of my days this week have been high carb. It's kind of hit or miss, because even with the good carbs I'm finding myself going over. I'm trying to have my high carb days hit on the days I lift, but that's not working well either. After this four weeks, I may take a month off and reset and try again to see if it really works. Yeah, this isn't helpful.

CaitlinBaer

Certainly not pointless, but not nearly as effective as it could be. If you're going to drop that low (60g) I would only do that for two days.. And then not going as high on the third day. After your body adjusts to that.. Then try three days at 60 and the 4th at 330. The main thing is don't let your body adapt.

TacoCar

From the sound of it, you seem to have some numbers to work with. You have your TDEE, proteins, ~carbs, and fats. To be brief it doesn't sound like it would be pointless as long as you take advantage of having all the carbs that you intake on that day. My goal is to loss some weight and get cut mostly so I also watch my calorie intake. As for how I use the carbs, there are days when I do have to exercise with low carbs. I try to make these days HIITs and if it does fall on a non-HIIT day, I just adjust my workout so I don't pass out.
My week looks like Mon: 50 Tue: 50 Wed: 100 Thur: 50 Fri: 50 Sat: 150 Sun: 100g of carbs. This obviously won't work for you if your lifting heavy 4 days out of the week. I do mostly body weight exercises, plyometrics and calisthenics. Basically if you are going to lift on that day, 330 would work.