Simple vs complex carbs: the last word?

[AutoKal47]

This is what I do with people I help:

I always start them off with very simple , easy to process carbohydrates. white potatoes, white rice, rice cakes, kids cereals, bagels etc....

I do this for a few reasons ---

Usually coming from an off-season, people are somewhat "stuffed" and have lost there feeling of "true hunger" so eating 7 regimented clean meals is actually really difficult in the beginning phases.

Therefore simply carbs with NO fiber will digest fast, and bypass through the Gi tract much more efficiently, making room for the next meal easier to endure.

As the person progresses and gets LEANER, their hunger signals become stronger and those simple carbs just arent "cutting it." Then I will switch them out for more fibrous carbs to simply satiate the person, and make them not go crazy after each meal.

Once they are lean enough and switch to complex carbs, then I refeed them back on the simple carbs once a week, maybe twice depending on the person.

Now I know I could definitely let them eat simple carbs ALL throughout the prep, but the hunger and their jacked metabolic rate just needs the more nutrient dense foods at that time.

In 2010, I ate 400g carbs ALL throughout my prep until 4 weeks out when I rotated carbs. My carbs were jasmine rice, flourless bread, and yams w/pumpkin spice and splenda.

My refeeds would be for 18 hours and were intense. Felt like utter crap by the end of the day, but came into some of the best condition on that particular diet.

Of course the morning of the show was a good ol' sh!tload.

-Matt

Great info bro! And killer condition

Today I kinda "hit the wall", yesterday's wo (chest/tris) was insane for me, one of the best ever,
lost track of time and went on waaaay to long (lol imagine how long that translate in human time when *I* say that..)
Today went for me deadlift-lowerback/squats/abs say and I had no strength, never happened in the last two months.
It was so obvious that I didn't even try to fight (first time in my life, no sh#t) also I kinda hurt my shoulder yesterday so
it seemed a good idea to lower the weights and concentrating more on reps and the isolating exercises and I stretched the
abs session a bit, and then I decided to give the mini-fat load a shot (even because I'm as far as it gets in the week from
refeed/carb-up), gonna eat avocado, macadamia nuts, EVOO and some fish and be back tomorrow for upperback/traps/shoudlers

 

[Whacked]

Matt = DIESEL!

Good work bro

Competition Stats?

 

[MattPorter]

Matt = DIESEL!

Good work bro

Competition Stats?

Thanks.

I am not very big on contest day --- after being dehydrated etc....

217 lbs at 5 10'

I am taking over 1 year off now to bring up my stage weight to hopefully a super heavy-weight in the 230-235 neighborhood.

Eating hard and training hard until 2013...

-Matt

 

[Whacked]

Atta boy. Good luck manggg

Thanks.

I am not very big on contest day --- after being dehydrated etc....

217 lbs at 5 10'

I am taking over 1 year off now to bring up my stage weight to hopefully a super heavy-weight in the 230-235 neighborhood.

Eating hard and training hard until 2013...

-Matt