Thoughts on cheat day?

[anyonehelp?]

Just want to know your thoughts on a cheat day, exp with such high cal intake?

[Furiogiunta]

I dont really know the effects on building muscle but the sounds like a ton of fun. 50 peices of sushi? 15000 calories?! I have a cheat day occasionally but I always feel guilty, and then highest calories I ever go is 6 or 7k. Also he was drinking beer? Dam, I should give it a try :grin:

[mike27]

interesting....

a whole day of eating crap tho?? :shock: :?

wonder if he trains 6 days a week then that 1 cheat day is on the 7th day(rest day)??

[Peachy]

I dont understand how he fit that much food in his stomach in one day, unless he puked up after each meal...

[drizzt]

IIFYM 8)

Haven't heard of a cheat day to that extent, I'd love to be on that diet :pray:

[ssw]

I wonder if he was eating for the nutritional content or until he satisfied his appetite. I didn't see much protein content but I may have missed something. :shock:

Still abit sceptical as it was all self-reporting with no actual video footage

[anyonehelp?]

Where I train we have a natural guy who did this massive cheat day and from what I remember, he won his class. The guy is 40 odd.

[HarryB]

ummmm in my early days I would often have full cheat days, started at midnight on sat and finished at midnight on sunday and anything and everything were fair game. I would do this until 2 or 3 weeks out depending on conditioning. BUT through the week I would exist on basically no carbs. If you create enough of a deficit you can get away with it. I know lots of guys who used to do it that way.

I wouldn't do it now however, it kind of messes with your head in some ways.

[tomsammce]

I dont understand how he fit that much food in his stomach in one day, unless he puked up after each meal...

regurgitating a meal would defeat the purpose of eating it... :doh:

[Peachy]

I dont understand how he fit that much food in his stomach in one day, unless he puked up after each meal...

regurgitating a meal would defeat the purpose of eating it... :doh:

yeh but he says he can binge on all that stuff without it affecting his cut. I dont think he ate it for nutritional value or anything else, seems the point of the video was 'look what i can eat and get away with it' not necessarily that it helped him lose more fat or anything. So maybe that was the way that he got away with it, just saying Tom

[trainlikeafreak]

I dont understand how he fit that much food in his stomach in one day, unless he puked up after each meal...

regurgitating a meal would defeat the purpose of eating it... :doh:

yeh but he says he can binge on all that stuff without it affecting his cut. I dont think he ate it for nutritional value or anything else, seems the point of the video was 'look what i can eat and get away with it' not necessarily that it helped him lose more fat or anything. So maybe that was the way that he got away with it, just saying Tom

agree with this apart from the vomit part i guess some people can get away with it and some cant...i know a cheat day is said to speed up metabolism although i never had one when cutting but surely there is a limit as to how much you can eat.

[cantygirl]

I use free meals fortnightly during my diet cycle, my clients do as well. When you are eating clean during the week and training hard, not only does it replenish glycogen stores, but it gives you a full recharge both mentally and physically. You do feel sluggish initially but like was said on the video clip, you train like a demon the next day. I always find that I add a kg of bodyweight the next day but it pushes off quickly after that. The most difficult aspect of this is that it is only for a day and you have to resume a strict regime the next day or it is all for nothing.

[HarryB]

I use free meals fortnightly during my diet cycle, my clients do as well. When you are eating clean during the week and training hard, not only does it replenish glycogen stores, but it gives you a full recharge both mentally and physically. You do feel sluggish initially but like was said on the video clip, you train like a demon the next day. I always find that I add a kg of bodyweight the next day but it pushes off quickly after that. The most difficult aspect of this is that it is only for a day and you have to resume a strict regime the next day or it is all for nothing.

It's this last aspect of having to switch back and forth between clean and cheat meals that is hard for some people mentally. I also think in a way it creates an almost binge eating type of mentality for some. If I am helping someone who has food "issues" then I won't go down this road with them. Just my 2c

[nate225]

I use free meals fortnightly during my diet cycle, my clients do as well. When you are eating clean during the week and training hard, not only does it replenish glycogen stores, but it gives you a full recharge both mentally and physically. You do feel sluggish initially but like was said on the video clip, you train like a demon the next day. I always find that I add a kg of bodyweight the next day but it pushes off quickly after that. The most difficult aspect of this is that it is only for a day and you have to resume a strict regime the next day or it is all for nothing.

It's this last aspect of having to switch back and forth between clean and cheat meals that is hard for some people mentally. I also think in a way it creates an almost binge eating type of mentality for some. If I am helping someone who has food "issues" then I won't go down this road with them. Just my 2c

Good call Harry,

I don't do cheat meals for that reason, I find it hard to sitch back to clean food. My first show was a shocker with planned cheat days - I binged hard and felt like shit afterwards (even did the spewing thing once and felt like a muppet for it! :grin: ).

The next time around I went 10 weeks without a cheat meal, had one to fill up for a show, then another 8 weeks & filled up for a show, then 2 weeks before final carb load. Much easier on my head.