Ep. 35 – The Science Of Carbing Up

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’

Links:

PHAT Muscle Supps- www.phatmuscleproject.com 

John

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Lisa:

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