Thread: cheat day on training day or non training day

On a training day directly after a workout would be optimal.

why would you want to have a junk meal on a training day? What are you going to feed the muscle with? junk? Isn't the whole purpose of a cheat meal to make your body think everything is OK and it burns more fat by doing this? this is why when you do a cheat meal your body gets very hot from burning all the sugars and carbs you just ate?

Originally Posted by premo

does it matter or make any difference to results if you train on a cheat day or cheat on a training day

or is it better to have your cheat day as a day off from training also

When you say cheat are you referring to adding in exercises or skipping exercises?

If your normal routine is a 4d split for example & your looking to add in some "small" isolation work (biceps possibly), there's nothing wrong with adding in another day here/there. It all depends on how your current routine lays out, we all run into makeup days or extras.

I think we all get caught up in thinking this weight training stuff is way more scientific than it really is. I'm guilty of it all the time.

Originally Posted by Flathead

When you say cheat are you referring to adding in exercises or skipping exercises?

If your normal routine is a 4d split for example & your looking to add in some "small" isolation work (biceps possibly), there's nothing wrong with adding in another day here/there. It all depends on how your current routine lays out, we all run into makeup days or extras.

I think we all get caught up in thinking this weight training stuff is way more scientific than it really is. I'm guilty of it all the time.

I think he's referring to diet. The kinda cheat day that involves pizza.

I would say cheat on a training day.

OOPS, I can't keep up with you BBers & your crazy strict diets anyways! LOL

Originally Posted by PushAndPull

I would say cheat on a training day.

What P&P said!

I thought that straight after a workout muscles were really responsive to simple carbs because they are absorbed. So I would have thought if that was true that after a workout would be the best time to get some ice cream or pizza involved??

Matt

i thought it used to be when eating strict allow yourself for one cheat day to 1 throw your body out a bit and shock it when eating striact again and 2 stop yourslef going insane with hunger 7 days a week all year round

then it changed to a cheat meal now im hearing only a cheat meal/hour immedietly after training?