I tend to assimilate carbs very slowly. Takes a full week for me to get back down to baseline so I am finding that a carb up every 10 days or so if perfect.
I usually try to do arrange it so that the day I have my highest carbs is the day I work my arms, which I feel is my most lagging body part but since I aaimilate carbs sol slowly, I might start doing my arms the day after my highest carb day.. I still have to play with it.
How do you schedule your refeeds when dieting for a show?
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When do you plan your refeed? Days off? Leg day? Weakest body part?
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I try to re-feed around either a upper body weakpoint or strenuous leg day. But there should be some consideration regarding some other aspects (one you touched on which is how your body processes carbs, but I'm not sure if that's something to stress about) an important one IMO is when you train. If you train in the morning, I'd say refeed the day before the training session you are targeting. I train in the evening mostly so I usually re-feed on the day of the session in question.
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I re-feed the day before leg-day. My challenge is to gain and keep mass on my legs so if I re-feed the day before I feel stronger and I have much more energy to burn and I definitely feel the benefits of the x-tra cals/carbs I compete in figure and don't need/want to add more size to upper body and so on that part I work more on definition.
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For me personally, and most people I work with, I don't plan refeeds on any particular day. I work them in and adjust them as necessary on a routinely basis in order to maintain the right nutritional math deficit to keep my weight/fat loss going at the rate I want. I typcially don't allow them to fall on a non-training day, but other than that, whatever training day they happen to fall on is the day I refeed.
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