A WTF moment that I'd like an explanation for!

[nate225]

Posted in my journal but thought I might add here to get a wider response:

Day two of carb deplete done & dusted, and some really strange shit just happened!! Need some explanations from those who know, or alternately I'll take theories! :grin:

So my last carbs of any great amount was a banana at 5pm Sun. Monday I was pretty flat by 4pm and managed an okay leg workout (couple of sets leg press 10x320's and machine stuff), calves & abs. PM Posing / Cardio was pretty tough, and AM cardio today (Tues) was a rough 40 minutes on the stepper! :pfft:

I was okay at work today and managed a fair bit of work, but by 4pm I felt like I was starting to crash. Was nearly at 48 hrs into deplete so expected this, however once I started training at 6pm I managed a good Chest, Bicep & tri's session and I was holding an amazing pump. My arms, chest and shoulders were vascular as hell (tho flattish?). One of the boys said I must be cheating LOL!

I then had a good posing session and did the easiest 30 mins X-trainer I've done in weeks - I had it set at level 14 and maintained around 1000 cals/hour rate (bullshit numbers I reckon but!). I smiled, kept my eyes open and pushed hard the whole time then wandered down and chatted to the boys - unheard of in the last 6 weeks?!! :shock:

Anyhow something changed, and very quickly? Any ideas where that energy came from? One suggestion was that a metabolic change may have occured with an upregulation of some enzyme? Maybe some part of protein metabolism upping as glycogen levels fall?

I can't explain it - I had to check my calculations for replacing carbs with protein to see if I'd put a whole bunch more calories in my diet by mistake!!! But no!

I'm definately not complaining about feeling so good 50 hours into a carb deplete, just perplexed!

Thoughts lads?

[Phedder]

Adrenaline? :shrug:

[startinfromscratch]

ketosis kicked in?

[tinytraps]

Adrenaline? :shrug:

I agree. I read some anecdotal stuff that when your body is in a very depleted state that your body becomes more responsive to adrenaline, like the effect of it is amplified. The author called it the Hulk Effect or something along those lines. Personally I found when I was very lowcarb and felt like shit I would have amazing lifting sessions where I just felt unstoppable. As soon as I left back to feeling shit haha

[nate225]

Possible but still feeling okay now - pretty long life adrenaline!

Ketosis - definately there - breath smells like I just bitched a bottle of meths!

[Chemo]

Possible but still feeling okay now - pretty long life adrenaline!

Ketosis - definately there - breath smells like I just bitched a bottle of meths!

I'd pick forced ketosis ay? No carbs and cardio.

Secondly, you could be entering beast mode

Good lux Saturday man!

[Shutupandsquat]

Body could have just found excess sugars from within your body maybe? Realized you're not taking them in much anymore (even though you hardly were before that) and started nomming on them.

You could also mentally just be used to the diet now and you're just like, eh, and everything just gets treated as if it were normal.

And there's also the adrenaline.

:shrug:

[Luigi]

walloftext.

we not doing cliffs anymore ?

[Darkmanx]

Adrenaline? :shrug:

I agree. I read some anecdotal stuff that when your body is in a very depleted state that your body becomes more responsive to adrenaline, like the effect of it is amplified. The author called it the Hulk Effect or something along those lines. Personally I found when I was very lowcarb and felt like shit I would have amazing lifting sessions where I just felt unstoppable. As soon as I left back to feeling shit haha

I think traps might be right since i read something similar but also from my understanding or how i interpreted from my studies is this is the bodies way of going autopilot. I think too that is has something to do with your body's energy systems, again i could be wrong. I think your body propably had used any energy that was redily available. When there was none left it had to semi 'shut down' hence the crappy feeling you had first couple of days. This is where your bod went into auto mode and started utilising any other energy it could find and hence the beast workouts. I wouldn't be surprised if your body was using some share of the cals from protein to fuel you but i guess most of you know this already. Again this is just my interpretastion from when i was doing my studies.

[nate225]

And so it continues....the 40mins cardio this morning (X-trainer) was a breeze & kept pushing myself harder. Hasn't been that easy in weeks?

That said I was pretty tired after breakfast, but a box of fluffies again at work this morning?

I'm going with metabolism shift of some kind - maybe upregulation of lipase or protease type enzymes allowing either protein or fats to be utillised more efficiently as fuel? Not gonna over analyse it - just enjoying it while it lasts!!! Hopefully still carb depleting efficiently? :shock:

[Deez]

I have no idea but I would love some of what you got during a carb deplete. everything sucks balls when I cut my carbs for too long. goodluck with your comp nate.