anabolic diet question

Bruth · 05-09-2008, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Botch

Not by my recommendation. 500g of carbs is WAY too little to do anything appreciable to replenish glycogen stores. I would recommend that you keep your macros at 60/30/10 carbs/pro/fat and load for 36-48 hours. This is an anabolic diet thread and that is not a direct recommendation from Di Pasquale so take it FWIW. I have been using the anabolic diet scheme for about 6 months...long enough to know that the carb up is too lax IMHO. If you want the aesthetics that can be, follow the macro breakdown I posted above and you'll get your results.

Dr.Di actually says you CAN go as short as 12 hours on the carb up in the Metabolic Diet but I doubt thats optimal.

**Botch** · 05-10-2008, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruth

Dr.Di actually says you CAN go as short as 12 hours on the carb up in the Metabolic Diet but I doubt thats optimal.

Yes he does. And the metabolic diet is also geared more toward the couch potatoe/office body/sedentary person than the bodybuilder.

**Botch** · 05-10-2008, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by imprezivr6

I am an endo, and was scared of my carb ups for the first few months, limiting them to basically 1-2 cheat style meals on saturday afternoon/evening, then going right back to low carb.. Since i have been doing what you said, the fat has been flying off, faster then before, and i look MUCH better durring the first few days of the week.

When i first saw it, i was scared as hell of giving it a go..lol But i will say i do enjoy eating my sweedish fish, and mike and ikes on friday..

Yeah buddy! The 36-48 hour carb up is where it's at. If your macros are 60/30/10 and you gorge yourself then you're golden. I'm going to start carbing up for a full 48 hours or maybe even a little bit longer than that for the rest of my cut.

**Botch** · 05-10-2008, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruth

Dr.Di actually says you CAN go as short as 12 hours on the carb up in the Metabolic Diet but I doubt thats optimal.

He also says that you can go as long as 48 hours. And where I think people screw this up and then get the idea that they need to stick with only 12 hours is from incorrectly cycling their macros.