Carb cycling

[MRmichael.hooker]

Has anyone here ever played around with carb cycling to drop bodyfat? Curious if you did high/low or high/moderate/low rotations

[Bean]

just curious to hear some answers

[MRmichael.hooker]

just curious to hear some answers

Here was a response I got on another forum-

“ Absolutely! Chris Aceto is big on this.

Here are the basics as per Aceto:

When trying to gain mass

Protein and fat intake remains constant during the week. Only carbs fluctuate up and down. During high carb day are 2g/lb of body weight. During medium carb days, intake is lowered to 75% and low carb is lowered 25%.

When trying to lose fat

Protein and fat intake remains constant during the week. Only carbs fluctuate up and down. During high carb day are 1.5g/lb of body weight. During medium carb days, intake is lowered to 75% and low (er) carb is lowered 25%.

Example of a weekly cycle:

Monday – high carb

Tuesday – high carb

Wednesday – medium carb

Thursday – medium carb

Friday – medium carb

Saturday – low (er) carb

Sunday – low (er) carb”

[BigChrisF]

Not really carb cycling in the daily intake sense, but I have done a scheme where I would basically drop out the carb intake for the last half of the day. Seemed to work alright, but it was combined with other dietary changes, so I'm not really sure what effect that had on it's own.

[Nmowery]

Dumb bro science, if you ask me

Take that weekly schedule above with the high/med/low carb days...if you add up the total carbs consumed during the week, and spread it out evenly each day, results should be the same.

In the end, it’s all calories in vs. calories out

[Preston]

I did something like this in 2006-2007 that helped me drop a decent amount of fat. Mine was set up like this :

Monday - 50 carb
Tuesday - 100 carb
Wednesday - 150
Thursday - 100
Friday - 50
Sat / Sun - 0

Protein was solid at 200 grams throughout the week, fat was also moderate around 135 grams if I remember that correctly. It’s been a few years. I want to say I did this to go from 165 to 146lb on a “pre contest” diet. To be fair, it could have been more of the twice a day workout sessions and fasted cardio. I did lose muscle through this and lost serious weight on every lift.

In the end it’s kind of a “shrug - meh?” If it “works.”

[Cellardweller]

https://youtu.be/VfpbzfMlcs0

Everything you need to know about carb cycling broken down .

https://www.muscleandstrength.com/tools/bmr-calculator

Here’s a calculator to figure out your baseline daily cards so you can manipulate them as needed