Carb Cycling

Cylindad

I have upped my calories over the last 2 weeks, also doing Insanity.
I started reading Chris Powell's book about the 7 day carb cycling.
I am not technically overweight, but really am working hard to lose belly fat.

Has anyone tried this, while still eating enough to sustain. The menu of foods make a lot of sense and it also states you need to eat every 3 hours and within 30 minutes of waking. The foods are mostly what I eat anyway.

But it recommends 1200 on low carb days and 1500 on high carb days. But I am wondering if this is mainly for people that are overweight or obese.

So I think I am going to try and do a mixture of eating more and carb cycling.

BMR: 1355
TDEE: 2100

rmk20togo

I can't speak to the calories, but I bet someone who can will chime in.

As for the carb cycling, a trainer friend told me to try cycling like this:

Day 1 = 150g
Day 2 - 100g
Day 3 - 50g
Day 4 - as close to 0 as possible
Day 5 - repeat from day 1

I haven't tied it because I do a lot of cardio, which requires carbs. I can say my friend who does it looks AMAZING!

I'm interested to hear how it works for you.

Cylindad

Well it seems the book is focused more on people that need to lose a lot weight but in my research this is something a lot of body builders do. I am about to incorporate les mills pump and insanity at the same time.

The book teaches doing strength training on low carb days and cardio training on high carb days.

Debbiedebbiey

So 150 & 100 ARE the hi carb days? Yikes. I've ordered the book from my library but I think it's popular, there are many others in line for it. So cool, I've been wondering how it's done & what's it all about.