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Most contests come on Saturday. Suppose you’ve found that you look your best on Wednesday
of each week. Your goal then is to basically make the Saturday of your contest like a Wednesday.
Because you look your best 3 days after your carb load, you want to complete a carb loading 3
days before the contest to make sure you look your best. Therefore, the Tuesday and Wednesday
before the contest you carb up so that 3 days later, on Saturday, you’ll look your best.

An important point here is that, the weekend before the contest, you won’t carb up as usual.
To carb up on the weekend and then carb up again two or three days later may well spill you
back over to a carb-burning metabolism and smooth you out for that Saturday contest. Because
of this, you skip your carb load the weekend before a contest. That way you’ll be on the high fat
diet for 8 straight days, from the Monday 2 weeks before the contest to the Tuesday before the
contest. At that point you’ll begin your pre-contest carb load so you’ll hit the contest just right.

This is one area where the Anabolic diet has a big advantage over the competition. When you’re
on the high carb diet, your body is already saturated with carbohydrates so it’s difficult to manipulate
the diet so the body will respond well to your carb loading attempt before the contest.

What often happens is that you’ll get off your high carb diet for 3 days at the beginning of
the week before a competition and go low carb for 72 hours. Then you’ll carb up to try and hit
the contest right. The problem is, you really don’t know how your body’s going to react.
Everything could work out well. Then again, you could experience a complete disaster. (This is
the most common disaster.)

KEYS TO SUCCESS IN THE PRE-CONTEST PHASE

• Begin this phase 16 weeks before contest


• By 6–8 weeks out you should be close to your contest look


• Don’t panic or make rash decisions


• Stick with the program


• Don’t overdo aerobics


• Stop training 1–2 weeks out


• Skip your carb load the weekend before the contest


• Time your carb load so you’ll look your best at prejudging


• Begin to drink distilled water, increase potassium and calcium, and reduce sodium 24
  hours before contest


• Be careful with diet after prejudging
  It’s Russian Roulette. You’ve got maybe a 30 percent chance of hitting the mark. Here you’ve
  maybe had a year to prepare for the contest. You’ve been disciplined and dedicated. Yet you
  miss the mark when you hit the stage because of the uncertainty of the high carb diet.

With the Anabolic Diet, you’ll know the exact hour when you look your best. Your body’s
going through the cycle every week. It’s become predictable and consistent. You’ll be dialed in

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