DC Bulker - Carb Intake

[noviceiron]

I am getting ready to hit a 16 week bulk cycle doing the DC training style and was wondering about carb intake.

I usually work-out around 8pm m-w-f and intake my carbs through out those days...

My questions is should I keep my carbs up on my non-training days as well?

I was thinking it would make sense to swap the carbs with protein on the off days...

 

[noviceiron]

No one?????

 

[rysigpi]

I have read up quite a bit on DC as well as practiced it and I had good results with it. DC advocates always having carbs around your workout and seperating meals as protein/fat meals and protein/carb meals. They use a carb cutoff as well so your last one or two meals are pro/fat. Since you workout at night do this assuming 6 meals a day and a late bedtime.

1: pro/carb
2: pro/fat
3: Pro/fat
4: Pro/carb
w/o
5: pro/carb
6: pro/fat

I like whey isolate and oats before and after my workouts. I tried WMS and liked it, but couldnt justify the price...but again, im in college!!!

hope this helps

 

[noviceiron]

Thanks for the advise...

Since you are familiar with DC, how long do you stay on that type of training? I have been doing it for the last 4-5 months and have had to switch to a 4 day split due to intensity... it was becoming very hard to reach the same intensity I had when I started.

Have you ever run AAS while doing DC?

 

[rysigpi]

I have done a couple bouts of DC. Each about 2 months long or so. I get bored with things so I like to change, but I will go back to DC again sometime. Also, after awhile of heavy training and really high intensity you need to take a break. They call this a cruise. So say you "blast" for 7 weeks then start to feel beat up and run down, take a cruise of 7-14 days where you do each exercise but just do a straight set and don't rest pause. That is what he advocates from all I have read.

I have not used anabolics while training DC.