In today’s episode we cover everything you need to know about carbing up! Areas of discussion include the research on carb ups and refeeds, whether to do a free meal or a refeed, training methods, supplements, and much more. Enjoy!
1. What is “Carbing up” or Carb Loading and what is it good for?
- Carbing up for competitions, weekly as part of the diet, carbing up to support the metabolism, carbing up for the mental aspect of things.
- What are some of the different ways you have carbed people up, and what is some of the crazier stuff you have tried?
- Refeeds vs cheat meals
- Carbing up when dropping too much weight too fast.
- Supplements for carbing up such as GDA’s, glutamine, creatine, etc.
2. Example for a peak week
- What to do with protein & fats during this time? Sodium? Water?
- What about training?
- What is ‘spilling over’
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John
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Lisa:
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