Highlanda01602
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As of late, I've been pondering the idea of "carb-loading" for my cheat meal, every Sunday. My craving for a cheat-meal comes rare, and when it comes, there is nothing in particular that I crave... sort of just looking for a new-texture/new-taste sort of thing... and in large-ass quantities of course.
So I have been running the idea on doing a "refeed" as the low-carb dieters would say, or doing a "carb-load" as the endurance athletes would say. I'm thinking like a whole box of wheat pasta, with whatever sauce sounds good. I love the sound of that as a cheat meal, but more importantly, I'm planning on implementing it so that the my body will gain a performance edge with the "refeed" theory.
My current diet has approximately 255g CHO daily. It's a moderate amount of CHO, and I'm wondering if it's too much everyday to gain that "refeed" boost or that "carb-load" boost that individuals speak of when eating such a meal to prepare for the week ahead.
My training goals are solely performance. I train with weights 5 days a week, and I'm working into a new running program that also has me running 5 days a week. I do not consider myself an "endurance athlete", with no workout lasting more than 45 minutes (running or weight training), but I'm still very curious if this CHO load on Sundays would be beneficial to my training. I ask this not because I feel that I need the extra CHO - I feel great on my current diet, but I'm curious if I could gain a performance edge. Not only that, but it would definintly keep me away from the BBQ shack down the street... last major cheat meal got pretty ugly.. deliciously ugly.
So I have been running the idea on doing a "refeed" as the low-carb dieters would say, or doing a "carb-load" as the endurance athletes would say. I'm thinking like a whole box of wheat pasta, with whatever sauce sounds good. I love the sound of that as a cheat meal, but more importantly, I'm planning on implementing it so that the my body will gain a performance edge with the "refeed" theory.
My current diet has approximately 255g CHO daily. It's a moderate amount of CHO, and I'm wondering if it's too much everyday to gain that "refeed" boost or that "carb-load" boost that individuals speak of when eating such a meal to prepare for the week ahead.
My training goals are solely performance. I train with weights 5 days a week, and I'm working into a new running program that also has me running 5 days a week. I do not consider myself an "endurance athlete", with no workout lasting more than 45 minutes (running or weight training), but I'm still very curious if this CHO load on Sundays would be beneficial to my training. I ask this not because I feel that I need the extra CHO - I feel great on my current diet, but I'm curious if I could gain a performance edge. Not only that, but it would definintly keep me away from the BBQ shack down the street... last major cheat meal got pretty ugly.. deliciously ugly.
