yeah?
do you incorporate cardio in your cutting routine? like say, have a day where you eat a lot more carbs than usual and do some intense cardio?
apparently that's extremely effective but i havent tried
I prefer to just use diet for cutting. Too much cardio can be catabolic, and you can do it with diet anyway. It depends what cutting regimen you are using.
If you're going ketosis, stay away from carbs.
If you're doing cyclical ketogenic diet, you have a carb up once a week-ish. You have like 2 apples just before your depletion workout then juice straight after, then eat heaps of carbs and protein (NO FAT) for one day, then go back to ketosis.
If you're doing low carb, clean eating, i'd probably still stay away from HEAPS of carbs, but once you get your bf% low enough, clean carbs pretty much won't do anything if your cals are in check.
Like, what's the point in having heaps of carbs if you're just going to go do heaps or cardio, you might as well not eat carbs and not do any cardio. But, if you are doing cyclical ketogenic diet (google it) then you're meant to have a carb up once a week. (maybe less if you want to cut faster)
I'm finding no carbs and no cardio to be quite effective. I've been just under maintenance with no carbs for over a month and I haven't really lost any strength yet.
(when I say no cardio, i mean I've had like 3 cardio sessions in the past month and they've all been more of a weight circuit style thing with high reps, high intensity and no rest.)