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Sport Counting carbs
- Thread starter Cooter
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Sport Fitness
Why would you want to do that? 50-70% intake is recommended (and that's for fat loss and muscle gain)
50-70% Carbs for fat loss and muscle gain? Where did you read this? That sounds wrong. Just google carb-cycling.
50-70% Carbs for fat loss and muscle gain? Where did you read this? That sounds wrong. Just google carb-cycling.
National Academy of Sports Medicine.
National Academy of Sports Medicine.
There is no way you can eat 50-70% carbs and then get 1-2 grams of protein per lbs of bodyweight and then burn fat and build muscle. Don't simply suggest the first thing that comes to your head, look at how it applies to the OP's goals. You could have gone a step further and gotten an example meal plan for someone who wants to build muscle and burn fat.
That observation appears to be borne out of ignorance.No problem. Yeah, it would be a horrible lifestyle diet.
There is no way you can eat 50-70% carbs and then get 1-2 grams of protein per lbs of bodyweight and then burn fat and build muscle. Don't simply suggest the first thing that comes to your head, look at how it applies to the OP's goals. You could have gone a step further and gotten an example meal plan for someone who wants to build muscle and burn fat.
Whoa... reel it in... As I mentioned in my second post- I didn't realize he was cutting and he then made that clear to me. So I DID in fact apologize for recommending what I know to someone in a cutting cycle.
That observation appears to be borne out of ignorance.
I think eating under 40 g's of carbs as a lifestyle diet would be pretty bad for you. You disagree?
Read up properly on . If you can see any article on carb-cycling that tells you to eat 40g of carbs for life tell me .. that is not carb-cycling.
What is carb cycling and why do we use it?
Carb cycling is basic enough to explain. The daily intake of CHO is varied from day to day in a cyclical manner to give high, low and no CHO days instead of having a static daily intake over the week.
If you were to say “I eat 300g of CHO every day” that would be a static intake. With RO-CHO you may well eat 300g one day, in fact two days, 150g for 3 days and near no carbs on the remaining 2 days of the calendar week. This gives us the structure of high, low and no CHO days. Cycling carbs is beneficial for those dieting down offering both anabolic and catabolic environments. This is not a license to cut and bulk in one, it simply means the body is more efficient at burning fat for periods whilst other periods its more efficient aiding repair, recovery and dare I say it growth which leads to strength and hypertrophy (depending on training goals), whilst maintaining a negative energy balance.
so periods on abalosim and catabolism within the same week = better body composition
So what's the deal with carb counting? I've heard that you don't count fiber or sugar alcohol as carbs. Any truth to that? If so it will really help me keep my carbs down below 40. Thanks.
Fiber doesn't count. Are you trying to stay in ketosis? If so, alcohol has a less antiketogenic effect than carbs, so you can consume quite a bit of it without going out of ketosis. They still contain calories the body can take up though (unlike fiber, because it just passes through without our body absorbing it)