Peak Week!

We are well into peak week now with just 3 days until show time! So, what are we eating now? What changes have we made? Are we carb depleting? Are we water loading? Are we cutting water? Are we sodium loading? Are we cutting sodium? Are we manipulating potassium? Are we boring you yet? Thought so. Peak week has so much broscience surrounding it, it's almost comical. Here's our theory, quite straight forward and easy to comprehend.

If it aint broke, don't fix it.

Simple as that. We've both followed your typical dieting protocols i.e; Steadily dropping carbs, implementing cardio, gradually increasing time spent doing cardio also sessions completed, had carb refeeds every 5-7 days when intake dropped below approx 120g per day, or simply when we needed a miracle (In this case, yes...carbohydrates) to survive a grueling legs session at the gym. We've taken each day at a time to carefully assess carb intake. Only when you go below 100g do you find out what kind of person you really are. James took ONE bite of his Moms garlic bread last week, blacked out, turned into the Hulk and woke up covered in crumbs; true story. The sensitivity from the gradual depletion is no joke! Our plan from here on is to moderately carb load on Friday & Saturday so that by Sunday our muscles will have a more full/harder appearance whilst on stage. On the day of the competition our diet will be as follows (If we're on stage at 5pm like we've been informed from a reliable source):

6am - 100g Oats
9am - Steak & 3 fried eggs
11am - 100g Sweet Potato
1pm -100g Oats
3pm - FlapJacks
4.30pm - Dark chocolate

Complex carbs spread throughout the day, then simple carbs towards stage time! Water will remain what it has been for the past months, 6 litres per day. Nothing is being randomly put in or taken out, we've achieved the condition we're in by what we've done up to this point, so why do something else? According to many Pro's, a perfect peak week can only make you look approx 5% better than you did leading up to it anyway. We both agree that competing at 95% is far better than trying to achieve 100% during peak week, messing it up and stepping on stage at anything below. Until next time, bathe in nutella, dip your fries in your strawberry milkshakes...and stay shredded.

The Fortai Fitness Instagram page

Instagram.com/Fortai_fitness

Twitter pages

Twitter.com/JamesTreezy
Twitter.com/A_DaleyFitness

Our clothing sponsor GymTees

Gymtees.co.uk