Without refeeding days, drastically reducing calories in the pre-competition phase may does not guarantee a better reduction in bodybuilder's body fat percentage

Background & AimsThe caloric restrictions are necessary during the bodybuilder athlete preparation, especially when approaching pre-contest phase. Although refeed strategies for bodybuilders current recent in scientific literature, drastically reducing calories pre-competition phase linearly without periodization may does not guarantee a greater reduction body fat and still being able harm athlete's physical on-stage readiness.MethodsTwo cross-sectional studies (n = 42) three case 3) involved athletes aged between 21 32 years old who had 14–32 weeks, time preparation phase, to prepare himself did contain any refeeding strategy their dietary protocol prescribed at work. These articles followed participants diets regarding number of macronutrients, where data collected were separated by author recorded Excel spreadsheets be mathematically calculated subjectively evaluated.ResultsOf five that read organized it's noted apparently deficit influence substantial loss percentage or weight neither looks show numerical visual relationship with maintenance fat-free mass.ConclusionsObservationally, severe applied percentage.