Fellas if this has been discussed before I apologize. I promise you, I have invested several hours searching for wisdom.
For those of you who track marcos and meal prep what macro % do you shoot for? I'm still new to triathlon. Coming to the end of my first season. I've been a gym rat for the last 6 years. With that came learning gym rat nutrition and meal prepping. I'm a larger guy for endurance sports, 6'0 190lbs @ around 10-11% bf. I really don't care to drop to much weight from muscle mass. Don't mind loosing %bf though. Typically I prep with a 50/30/20 split on about 2700 cal/day. This is what I've been doing pretty much all this season. Am I robbing performance by staying high protein lower carb? I understand the science of protein for recovery, carbs for energy.
And total calories, do you guys try to target maintenance + training load? I still weight train 5-6 hours a week in addition to the triathlon stuff. My avg training load is 14-17 hours most weeks. According to garmin connect and myfitnesspal I end up with huge calorie deficit on big training days. Do you guys try to cover a 2k cal deficit?
For those of you who track marcos and meal prep what macro % do you shoot for? I'm still new to triathlon. Coming to the end of my first season. I've been a gym rat for the last 6 years. With that came learning gym rat nutrition and meal prepping. I'm a larger guy for endurance sports, 6'0 190lbs @ around 10-11% bf. I really don't care to drop to much weight from muscle mass. Don't mind loosing %bf though. Typically I prep with a 50/30/20 split on about 2700 cal/day. This is what I've been doing pretty much all this season. Am I robbing performance by staying high protein lower carb? I understand the science of protein for recovery, carbs for energy.
And total calories, do you guys try to target maintenance + training load? I still weight train 5-6 hours a week in addition to the triathlon stuff. My avg training load is 14-17 hours most weeks. According to garmin connect and myfitnesspal I end up with huge calorie deficit on big training days. Do you guys try to cover a 2k cal deficit?