4ucycling

Carb cycling is a technique competitive body builders use to shed maximum fat prior to a competition. Most of their training is to build muscle. Even if this includes gaining a bit of fat they do so to build as much muscle as possible. But as the competition approaches, they start to "lean out." They use this technique to do this. This is a technique to speed up your metabolism that is so easy to apply to the everyday person like you and me. This is how carb cycling works. You go for a period of days on a low-carb diet. Then you cycle to a high-carb day. Then you cycle back to a period of low carbs. That's about the simplicity of it. A lot of people are quite familiar with the Atkins diet. It is the diet that popularized the "low-carb" craze. So what you do is you eat like this for 3 - 4 days and then you switch for one day to eating carbs. You don't have to overdo it on this day. On this day I look to the diet called the, "Zone" diet. This i...