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rationale for this one is to deplete glycogen while only eating carbs, workout wise anyway. Mostly fruits and veggies for diet. 5 days on this. The goal is to change substrate utillization to carbs. And because protein is not there but the lifts are still heavy and working in the glycolytic anaerobic pathway we are still able to spare protein.
Then after the 5 days we change up the diet and add back in the protein and fats. The influx of aminos and caloric surplus should trigger the body to grow because it just came off a "protein fast". The theory on this is we are sending the body signals that we need protein but we dont have any. Also, we are trying to promote catabolism as well. So LISS is done during this time (if possible after workouts, I cant, but I will be doing Judo, and maybe some jump roping if I have time.)So at the end of the 5 days the body should have an anabolic response from training therefore it should be anti catabolic in a sense. But the diet only provides enough substrate to keep the workout up.
This whole concept is very different for me because I have run the UD 2.0. Which is basically opposite of this. Protein Sparing modified fast diet for 4 days then carb loads. This way is a protein fast for 5 days then a "normal" bulk > cut diet for 5-6 weeks followed by a 2 week "maintenance" phase. Then repeat. Lifts of course will be changed a bit throughout.
If you want more details you can buy the BluePrint 3.0. Im not saying it works or whatever. But I wanted to give a new program a try.
Im no pro at this yet but to sum up the theory > Body has no protein, body is stressed.... Feed body, body grows.... but body cant keep up the growth curve because if not we'd all look like the hulk... so we have to phase it and taper it.
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