Hello fitness fans Steve Twomey here with Mike Porter and we
are Real Fitness Reviews. Right now we
are 11 weeks out for Mike’s next NGA Natural Professional Bodybuilding
show. Mike right now is doing a carb
cycling diet to prepare for his next show.
I know a lot of
people have heard a lot of buzz about carb cycling in order to get lean. We are here to show you what a carb cycling
diet is like and its real world application for you to get ripped, get ready
for beach ,the gym or if you have a competition get ready for that.
Basically what it is, is a carb
depletion diet. So basically we start at
day one, we slowly decrease the carb intake over a four day cycle. We start with our protein and figure out how
many grams of protein you need to ingest based on your bodyweight.
Typically 1 gram per pound of body weight. Some people will tell you 1.5 per grams per
pound of body weight if you are trying to build muscle. Then, we are going to play with our cycle
your carb intake. We are going to
deplete down to the point where your body is almost consuming muscle.
Day one of the four
days will have more carbs, then we will taper off where we are consuming less
carbs every day until the fourth day.
Then we are going to bring all these carbs back in. The sugars and the carbs get reintroduced to
the muscles. The goal of the carb cycling diet is to lose just a little
bit, if we lose more than two pounds a week, then we are worried about losing
muscle.
So basically we are trying to
slowly take the fat off, burn the fat but hold onto as much muscle as possible
to get ready for a show. That is
basically what I do. I take anywhere from
12-14 weeks to step down as slowly as possible to get the granular muscles, the
separation of muscles that shows up on stage during a competition. That is essentially what a carb cycling diet
does and what it does for you.
As a natural
pro bodybuilder another thing that we (wife Susan
Porter, a Bikini competitor) take is MCT oil.
MCT stands for Medium Chain Triglyceride. It is a fat that your body does not think is a fat. As soon as you take it, your body thinks it
is a carb of some sort, and your body uses it for energy. Your body never stores it as fat, but on a
low carb diet there is low energy.
Which
is why MCT oil is great as it gives you fuel to convert to energy. It is also a clean calorie which is great
for when you are dieting or in the off season. Another supplement that I take is amino acids. Amino acids help in building or retaining
muscle, repairing the muscle when you are sore.
Protein powder is a huge part of working out
as you break your muscles down when you work out, your body needs protein to
feed those hungry muscles and recover.
We use Beverly International protein. It is a whey and casein protein, which is a
fast and slow digesting protein.
I use
C4 by Cellucor for my Pre Workout supplement Reviews.
I really like C4 because it gives me the tingling feeling, it just gets
me ready to workout. It helps when you
are tired and you need to push harder, it gives you that extra focus and energy
to push through.
That is really all the supplements we take. If you work hard
and diet right, take a few of these supplements, it should get you there and
push you through to the next level.
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