I'm a pretty fitness savy guy and for the most part I eat clean, I'm naturally lean so dieting has never been hard for me, gaining weight/muscle has been the challenge.
Anyways so I'm seeing this trainer, ex bb'er, his workouts are legit and he knows his stuff. He has me and my buddy, (who is the opposite of me, huge, naturally big, has to diet his ass off to lose weight) doing a cheat meal every week or every two weeks, the only difference is my friend is dieting hard, while I'm not, I eat relatively clean but still 2700-3300 cals a day, eating clean it's very hard for me to get past 3k cals a day. without an overload of fats...
one weekend we had doughnuts, my buddy ate 12, I made it to about 7. the other weekend (cheat meal) we had inn n out, two double doubles, frys, etc...yesterday we had pizza and doughnuts.
I understand the general purpose of this is for a pre contest carb/glycogen malipulation, obviously much more effective for someone who's been dieting. His reasonosn for me to do it is simply "more calories are good" (i'm trying to building size)
Do you guys agree with this? or would it be more beneficial to keep my cheat meals to a less of an all out gorge, considering i'm in no way in a cal deficit neither am I in need of pre contest carb manipulation...
Anyways so I'm seeing this trainer, ex bb'er, his workouts are legit and he knows his stuff. He has me and my buddy, (who is the opposite of me, huge, naturally big, has to diet his ass off to lose weight) doing a cheat meal every week or every two weeks, the only difference is my friend is dieting hard, while I'm not, I eat relatively clean but still 2700-3300 cals a day, eating clean it's very hard for me to get past 3k cals a day. without an overload of fats...
one weekend we had doughnuts, my buddy ate 12, I made it to about 7. the other weekend (cheat meal) we had inn n out, two double doubles, frys, etc...yesterday we had pizza and doughnuts.
I understand the general purpose of this is for a pre contest carb/glycogen malipulation, obviously much more effective for someone who's been dieting. His reasonosn for me to do it is simply "more calories are good" (i'm trying to building size)
Do you guys agree with this? or would it be more beneficial to keep my cheat meals to a less of an all out gorge, considering i'm in no way in a cal deficit neither am I in need of pre contest carb manipulation...