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Old 11-23-2005, 11:11 PM
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The Bulk Cycle

I'm bored so I made a bulker using the 5x5 workout with carb cycling. Here's what I went off of:
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- Tweaking for body-type, a pure mesomorph would (typically) be better served doing three high carb days and four low carb days.
- Try not to stack more than two high carb days back-to-back (save for the endomorph)
- Do not put no carb days back-to-back
- Put your high carb days on days with your most difficult, highest volume workouts
- Put your no carb days on your off days, to the extent possible
- Put your heaviest, hardest, and highest volume workouts on your high carb days.
- Where possible, put your heaviest, hardest, and highest volume workouts after a low carb day. This works well on a maintenance or bulk program.
1- 5X5- HIGH CARB
2- OFF- LOW CARB
3- 5X5- HIGH CARB
4- OFF- LOW CARB
5- 5X5- HIGH CARB
6- OFF- NO CARB (CARDIO)
7- OFF- LOW CARB

Anyways, that's the format I'm going to use whenever I'm done cutting. It's pretty common sense. When you're not burning calories, you don't overload the carbs. Wow.

For cutting, here's the example from Twin Peak:

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- Put your off days on your no carb days. Or, use these days for cardio work (if you insist on cardio) or you lightest low volume days. For example, active recovery workouts would be ideal here.
- When cutting, keep the frequency of workouts, and/or the total volume lower than you would when bulking
- Now, let's put this to practice. Assume one is cutting, and using the standard three-day cycle: no carb, high carb, low carb, repeat.

I would recommend setting up a four-day or six-day split that is spread out over six days. So, for example, you could do the following:

A: Chest and Triceps
B: Back and Biceps
C: Quads, Hams, and Calves
D: Shoulders, Traps, and Forearms

You'd then play this routine as follows:

No: Off- cardio
High: A
Low: B
No: Off- cardio
High: C
Low: D
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Last edited by Darkhorse; 11-23-2005 at 11:54 PM.
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