cheat day on training day or non training day

[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

 

[KelJu]

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

 

[letsgetbig]

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?

 

[Flathead]

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.

 

[PushAndPull]

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.

 

[PushAndPull]

I would say cheat on a training day.

 

[Flathead]

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

 

[Flathead]

I would say cheat on a training day.

What P&P said!

 

[matt_im]

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

 

[premo]

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?

 

[Energy]

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

Agree