Hola from South Padre, TX, where your favorite nerd is here to rescue your poor, abused carbohydrates from the nutritional prison industrial complex.

Somewhere along the way, the fitness industry convinced everyone that carbs are Beelzebub himself and must the avoided to save your metabolism (and sell more diet books).

Bread? Evil!

Potatoes? Straight to your love handles of course.

Rice? Might as well just mainline glucose you addict.

Meanwhile, you're dragging your carcass through leg day with the energy of a three-legged donkey hauling a broken refrigerator uphill.

Your quads are screaming for glycogen with your other foot on the banana peel and you're wondering why the scale hasn't moved.

After 20+ years of coaching and a PhD in exercise physiology plus running metabolic cart testing on a metric piss ton of people, I can tell you that carbohydrate manipulation is both incredibly useful and spectacularly misunderstood.

You can eat mo' carbZ Bro on your hardest training days and still lose fat.

...with one big caveat, provided you manage your overall calorie intake.

Yeah, that pesky law of thermodynamics refuses to die!

Roscoe the Iron Intern has watched 7 too many Jason Fung YouTube videos as he was even arguing with me today about this topic!

Some yattering about planes that can't fly and thus calories don't matter with other non-sensical BS on a stick.

Thus, to help your and Roscoe out, I put together a brand-new, 15-page Carb Cycling Playbook to help you navigate this nutritional circus.

And because I like you, it's FREE.
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​ >> FREE CARB CYCLING PLAYBOOK HERE <<​

Here's some of the metabolic mischief you'll discover inside:

• Why eating the same amount of carbs on your ballz-to-the-wall leg day and your couch-surfing recovery day may be a nutritional strategy designed by a drunk accountant.
• The ridiculously simple 2-setting carb cycling method that lets you eat more on hard training days without accidentally blowing your weekly calorie budget into low Earth orbit.
• How a hypothetical 180-lb lifter can hammer down 280 grams of carbs on training days, drop to 210 grams on easy days, and consume the same total amount of carbs over the week. Math is a beautiful bastard.
• The glycogen-water conspiracy that can make your scale jump overnight and send you into a full-blown fat-loss panic, even though you haven't suddenly grown two pounds of ass fat.
• Why slashing carbs the day AFTER your hardest training session may be a spectacularly stupid move if you've got another demanding workout breathing down your neck.
• A simple 30–50 gram carbohydrate experiment that could help fuel your next PR without requiring an advanced degree in spreadsheet sorcery.
• The sneaky sodium problem that can leave you feeling like roadkill during a sweaty workout, even when your carb intake is dialed in tighter than a drumhead at a Fear Factory concert.
• What insulin actually does when you eat carbs, and why the internet's favorite fat-storage horror story is missing a few rather important chapters.
• How to spot whether your new carb strategy is helping your performance, hunger, recovery, and physique instead of treating your bathroom scale like an all-knowing nutritional oracle.
• My carb cycling experiment that helps you collect actual data instead of making dietary decisions based on two bad weigh-ins and whatever nutritional nonsense appeared on Instagram this morning.

Plus, actual references for the physiology nerds who want receipts.

Want the whole thing?

​ >> FREE CARB CYCLING PLAYBOOK HERE <<​

No charge.

No secret carbohydrate commandments carved into stone tablets.

And no promises that eating a truckload of Pop-Tarts will magically transform you into a shredded Greek god...

...however, it's a method to distribute your fuel more intelligently based on your training demands.

Get that right and you might find it easier to train hard while keeping your physique goals moving in the right direction.

Or you can keep fearing potatoes while your squat numbers slowly crawl into a shallow grave.

Your call, Brosefus.

Much love, metabolic flexibility, and carb-fueled PRs,

Dr. Mike

PS – One of my favorite parts of the guide is the actual 7-day example.

​ >> FREE CARB CYCLING PLAYBOOK HERE <<​

Your quads may send me a thank-you card.

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Mike T Nelson CISSN, CSCS, MSME, PhD
Associate Professor, Carrick Institute
Owner, Extreme Human Performance, LLC
Editorial Board Member, STRONG Fitness Mag

Mike T Nelson is a PhD and not a physician or registered dietitian. The contents of this email should not be taken as medical advice. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any health problem - nor is it intended to replace the advice of a physician. Always consult your physician or qualified health professional on any matters regarding your health.

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