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So according to the chart I should be eating 600~ carbs on training evenings.
How is this even possible? Kiefer warns not to get too dirty, but unless I eat seriously dirty, i’m going to have to eat something like 2 kilo rice to get anywhere near 600g carbs in 5 hours.
Right now i’m throwing down various kinds of junk carbs and i’m still unlikely to go higher than around 300 carbs.
What’s the secret here? Or have I misunderstood something?
EDIT: DOH! Thought this was a Carb Nite thing, not CBL, my bust. 🙁
Though I thought the generic thing about the amounts of carbs “to hit” on CBL as recommended is to be spread out across training days or something like that. I’m planning on hitting more like 200g of carbs a night on CBL when I start in a couple of weeks and seeing how I feel and how my body responds. Of coures, I’m also working out in the early morning, so that may affect the amounts I’m taking in too) I barely hit 600g on CN at the moment, I can’t see doing that nightly and not gain weight.
The amount of carbs you find in the chart in the back of the book is the baseline, meaning it’s the maximum amount of carbs your muscles can hold. So like mentioned above, spreading it out throughout the week/training is probably a good way to do it. It depends on how intense your training is and what kind of training it is too. Although I could easily do 600 g in an hour or two with things like rice and bananas… and yes, not the proudest thing, but I have done it before. Normally I don’t get the satiety signal like normal people, but getting in ~700g in two-ish hours did make me pretty full.
Anyway, for a starting point, I think that 1~2g/LBM is good. Depending on how you feel, you can adjust up or down.Training Log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vuwHRdBaPVILxxLhXly_N1Ys66Hcwk4j-bM7nvKSLrI/edit?usp=sharing
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