Thursday, July 12, 2007
carb timing
The first thing I do when planning a new diet is figure out how many grams of protien, carbs, and fat are going to be necessary for me to reach my goal. To begin with I eat 40-60 grams of protien with every meal.Most people are surprised that while dieting for a contest I almost never eat less then 180 grams of carbs. The key to dieting for a bodybuilding contest and in any diet should be to lose bodyfat while maintaining or better yet gaining lean bodymass. I am going to give you a run down of when I eat the majority of my carbs assuming my carb intake for the day is only going to be 180 grams. It is important to note that I am only talking about starchy carbs not fiberous carbs. I think this is a good time to point out that when dieting I find that the more fiberous carbs I eat (ex: green vegies) the leaner I get also they help to make me feel full at night when I'm not eating the starchy carbs. There are two meals a day that should take up the majority of your carb intake. These two meals are breakfast and post workout. I eat 50 grams during both of these meals. At breakfast I eat the carbs because after waking I haven't eaten in at least 8 hours. I want to get my body back into an anabolic or muscle building state, also I am able to eat more here because I will have all day to burn them and I really need the carbs for energy. I eat 1 cup of oats in the morning which is roughly 50 grams of carbs and very easy to make. Post work out is a bit different. I still use oats but I like to get some simple sugars in at this time as well. My goals for my post workout meal are the same as at breakfast but I want to get these carbs in faster so I use a higher glycemic carb as well as lower ones to make a sort of time released carb post workout meal. I find that if I take one pack of sugar oats and add to it 1/2 cup of plain oats, I get the perfect combination of fast and slow acting carbs. The fast acting carbs will get right into my body and boost me back into a muscle building enviroment while the slow acting ones will stick with me. I have 80 grams of carbs left to spread through out the rest of my meals. I eat 40 of these about an hour before I train. Then take the other 40 and split them between two other meals. I don't eat starchy carbs after 5 o'clock pm unless it is a post workout meal.
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