Does it matter how many days you backload per week?

[DragonTail]

Or if you frequently backload on consecutive days?Here's my situation. I train Olympic lifting 4 days a week, plus work out on my own 1 or 2 more days. So, I'm working out usually 5 or 6 days a week. I've been using CBL, hoping to reduce bodyfat without negatively affecting my weightlifting progress. At first, I was having trouble keeping up with the training and starting to feel generally fatigued, so I started using much bigger backloads to aid in recovery, which worked. I've been making great progress in the gym and feeling great in my workouts. I've gained muscle in the past month, too; it's noticeable and my clothes are fitting tighter in a few key areas like the thighs and shoulders. However, I haven't noticeably reduced body fat; I may even have gained a little bit. I'm wondering if it's because I'm backloading 5 or even 6 times per week. The book doesn't really say much (that I could find) about optimal frequency. Does anyone have any experience with using CBL while working out 5 or 6 times a week? I was thinking that perhaps if I were able to work out only 3 times a week or so, I would have more success in reducing fat without losing performance.Or is it possible to use CBL to lose fat while eating enough food to recover from training 5+ times per week?

[guitarjon]

Or if you frequently backload on consecutive days?Here's my situation. I train Olympic lifting 4 days a week, plus work out on my own 1 or 2 more days. So, I'm working out usually 5 or 6 days a week. I've been using CBL, hoping to reduce bodyfat without negatively affecting my weightlifting progress. At first, I was having trouble keeping up with the training and starting to feel generally fatigued, so I started using much bigger backloads to aid in recovery, which worked. I've been making great progress in the gym and feeling great in my workouts. I've gained muscle in the past month, too; it's noticeable and my clothes are fitting tighter in a few key areas like the thighs and shoulders. However, I haven't noticeably reduced body fat; I may even have gained a little bit. I'm wondering if it's because I'm backloading 5 or even 6 times per week. The book doesn't really say much (that I could find) about optimal frequency. Does anyone have any experience with using CBL while working out 5 or 6 times a week? I was thinking that perhaps if I were able to work out only 3 times a week or so, I would have more success in reducing fat without losing performance.Or is it possible to use CBL to lose fat while eating enough food to recover from training 5+ times per week?

I've been training 5-6 days a week and backloading each time.  I'm no expert but from what I've learned so far, you can probably expect to put on a bit of fat if you backload almost every night.  The thing to do is try and clean up the backloads, maybe stick with potatoes, sweet potatoes, bananas n' such.  I'm doing a reprep this week and then I'm going to start training probably 4 times, maybe 5 times a week and definitely sticking to cleaner carbs (except on really heavy days, then I'll eat whatever).  Also I'm going to keep the backloads close to 3 hours.

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