What is carb-cycling?

Carb-cycling is a nutrition method that consists of alternating between high-carb and low-carb days, which helps keep the body's metabolism working optimally. Watch as celebrity fitness trainer Chris Powell explains carb-cycling and why it works.

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To make it as fast and as easy and as effective as possible, it's really important to always keep the body guessing.

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So carb cycling is the method-- I would say it's the nutrition method that I've used for years in all of my transformations.

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And it consists of what we call high-carb and low-carb days. And it's this constant alternating between high- and low-carb days to keep the body's metabolism

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guessing, to always kind of throw it off kilt to manipulate the body because that's really what nutrition and weight

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loss is, is to make it as fast and as easy and as effective as possible.

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It's really important to always keep the body guessing because the body adapts to everything that we do. So I use a method called carb cycling.

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And it always keeps the metabolism of the body guessing as to what's going to happen next. So I'll actually use a series of what we call high-carb days, where you simply

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eat a lot of carbohydrates in your meals. And then every once in a while, I'll throw in what we call a low-carb day, where we pull those carbs out.

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We force the body to flip this what we call a fat-burning switch. So we force the body to burn a lot of fat on those days.

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Then we flip it back over to these high-carb days. You know, the beauty of carb cycling is that by alternating between high- and low-carb days,

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the high-carb days, it's really cool because we can actually we boost metabolic rate. We can build and develop muscle, which actually assists

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with increasing the metabolism. And then on the low-carb days, we switch over into these really strong fat-burning mode,

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where the body's breaking down. It's mobilizing and oxidizing fat as fast as possible. So it's just-- it's a really effective nutrition protocol

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that we use that's incredibly powerful. [AUDIO LOGO]