Hopefully everyone was able to spend a lot of time outside enjoying their summer and perhaps do a little training and reading on the side! I mentioned a few books earlier in the summer that were really good and mentioned that I would be tackling Carb Backloading when I could. Well, I ended up reading it near the end of summer and have been testing it on myself since then. Here is what occured:
-I really enjoy it!
-My body has gotten leaner
-My strength has had a noticeable jump
-My recovery is better...not just me not getting sore, but I'm recovered for repeat performances now!
-And... I get to eat cool things.
Carb Backloading has been a great experience. It has allowed me to take a lot of the things that I have read on health, nutrition, and training and combine them into something that has altogether less restrictions than any one of them did by themselves. It's pretty cool. It has given me a reason to eat copious amounts of carbs again -something I had previously stopped doing because of other readings that I had done (I still ate them, just not as many)- as well as continue to not eat breakfast or eat before I train in the morning. Haha... In the book, Keifer discusses how eating breakfast can literally stop your body from burning fat as well as how eating before training isn't really the greatest idea; in fact, it is actually beneficial to train in a fasted state!
Now, I know that this is a short write up and says some things that go against basically everything we are taught about being healthy...give it a read still. It's short and informative; it you don't like it, you didn't waste much time reading it. Hopefully, however, it can change the way that you think about food and perhaps help you improve your performance in more than one way!
P.S. Keifer is writing a second book too. It is a more updated version of this book with more tips for athletes other than strength athletes as well as tips for women since men and women actually burn calories a bit differently (according to him and some other smart people).
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