Deload Nutrition Question

AntM1564

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I am in need of a deload. I follow a 5/3/1 PPL hybrid, he is how my deload is going to look:

On hypertrophy days, reduce reps per set, on hypertrophy days. So if a movement is 3x12 at 225 lbs, I will do 3x6 at 225 lbs.

On my heavy days, I will deload the main lifts like Wendler suggests. The heavy accessory work, which is in a rep range of 6-8 reps, I will reduce the weight by 10-20% but still do 6-8 reps while also reducing overall volume by number of sets.

Question is nutrition. On my heavy days, which is two days per week, I have a high carb/high calorie day, two other days, it is a moderate carb/moderate cal day (250 cals less than the high day), and the low carb/low cal day is three days per week (500 cals less than the high cal day).

Should I just go with all low carb/low cal? Have four moderate carb/cal and three low carb/cal, or keep things as is?
 
Calories remain the same. it is one week, it will not make or break you. Plus the extra calories will aid recovery during a light workload. If you do gain a touch of weight it will go off when you resume normal intensity the following week.

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I've been deloading this week as well. Diet has been exactly the same and I believe that's the best route. Also my deload is much less weight AND volume than normal. I'm using it mostly to recover, so I want to get the calories in to ensure that's what I'm doing.
 
Yep agree with above......your aiming to allow the body to recover so reducing calories would be counter productive to that.
 
I agree with the info above, but to be honest I have a hard time following it myself when I deload. Even though it's good to keep nutrition the same, I struggle to eat the same quantity that I do when training hard. I would aim to eat close to what you were eating on 5/3/1, but being a little under your calorie intake for that week won't hurt either.
 
I've been deloading this week as well. Diet has been exactly the same and I believe that's the best route. Also my deload is much less weight AND volume than normal. I'm using it mostly to recover, so I want to get the calories in to ensure that's what I'm doing.

why else would you do it....?
 
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