Calorie Cycling Plan Advice

TheRootofGroot
TheRootofGroot Posts: 118 Member
edited December 2 in Food and Nutrition
Could some veterans review this plan and advise me accordingly please?
I'm striving towards maintenance, still losing weight at 3000 calories a day so as of Monday will go for an average of 3150.

My workouts are as follows.
Monday - Upper Body Heavy
Tuesday - Lower Body Heavy
Wednesday - Upper Body Volume
Thursday - Lower Body Volume

I then must take Friday to Sunday off because from I work Friday 11pm into Saturday 11am, Saturday 11pm into Sunday 11am and then I just sleep from Sunday 3/5 pm into Monday 5:30am.

My plan is to eat as follows.
Monday 3400 calories
Tuesday 3600 calories
Wednesday 3400 calories
Thursday 3650 calories
Friday 2600 calories
Saturday 2600 calories
Sunday 2800 calories

My logic is that I need more fuel on leg days than upper body days and I boost calories up a bit on Sunday since I'm basically going into hibernation mode into the following Monday.

Also on my 4 workout days I'll aim for about 50% carbs, 30% protein, 20% fats and rest days will be 50% fats, 30% protein and 20% carbs.

Please provide constructive criticism as I'm sort of pulling this out of my butt.

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  • TheRootofGroot
    TheRootofGroot Posts: 118 Member
    Guess no one has the first clue huh?
    Well I upgraded to premium just to facilitate this gameplan and I'll report back on how it went, but hey, if anyone has an opinion I'd love to hear it!
  • cityruss
    cityruss Posts: 2,493 Member
    It's not going to do any harm.

    I'd personally eat the same every day, and look at macronutritional make up and timing for days you feel you need more fuel. I train in the morning, and I know I can train chest fasted or with a light breakfast and feel like I can the most out of a workout, but for legs it's all the food as soon as I wake up.

    Give it a go and see how you get on.
  • TheRootofGroot
    TheRootofGroot Posts: 118 Member
    At the end of the week I know it's about the overall consumption more so than what you take in on a daily basis. (Although I'm quite sure eating 11k calories twice a week and fasting for five days would result in different body composition!).

    I just like having a few days where I can really fill myself, and the weekends I just work and sleep so I can do with less.

    I don't know how you manage fasted training... During my cut I did intermittent fasting 16/8 and sometimes 20/4 and I felt great, but the one time I attempted an ARM workout fasted I felt like trash!

    I do try to get most of my carbs post workout, in anycase this will be the testing phase for me, I'm entering a heavy weight cycle so it'll be fun to see if the extra fuel pushes me towards new PRs.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    edited July 2016
    I calorie cycled with great success (I lost 60lbs with the help of calorie cycling). But if you make it a pattern, your body will get use to it and try to adjust. I tried to change it up and didn't usually cycle more then 300-500 cals for a week. Some weeks, I did it normally, one day -/+300, 2nd day normal, 3rd day opposite of 1st day. Other weeks, I would eat -100 to -200, for 3 days and make it up on the 4th.

    My thoughts are: There is no reason to calorie cycle unless you are trying to lose weight. The whole point is to have extra calories to eat later, and/or throw off your bodies metabolism.
    Sounds like you could just eat normally now while making up for exercise days.
  • TheRootofGroot
    TheRootofGroot Posts: 118 Member
    It's really nice having 3600 calorie days.
    Just prepped my first one for tomorrow, feel sated already.

    Just doing the cycling this way in hopes of being able to have such indulgent days without gaining weight.

    Came here to see if I was completely wrong.

    Still not sure.
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