To be clear, the objective is to gain a maximum of muscle with minimal fat. In talking about diet, you should understand that there are 3 things that you are working with in the background:
- Hormones
- Neurotransmitters
- Enzymes
Right now your body is producing enzymes that waste protein at a high rate.
Your body is accustomed to using protein as an
energy substrate...but you want to use it for
building muscle. Currently you are in the wrong hormonal/neurotransmitter state to build muscle optimally.
Remember, it can take a little time for the protien wasting enzymes to fully go away and be replaced by enzymes that properly metabolize carbs and properly utilize proteins for building.
Lowering carbs is ideally a
cutting strategy not a bulking strategy.
For muscle gains - insulin is
anabolic and if you are training and your diet is optimal that is a benefit.
When it comes
time to cut, then you start to modulate carb/protein and sometime fat ratios.
i was planning on cycling between lower and higher carbs (each about 4 weeks).
That would be cycling between a cutting cycle and a bulking cycle. Problem,
the baseline should be the 45c/25p/30f and then your should simply modulate carbs down and protein up. Then return to baseline.
but how about i stay on the higher protein (30c/45p/25c) until i reach about 2700 calories (currently at 2400) and then once i stop gaining with that i amount i switch over to something like 40-45c/30p/25-30f? would that be good
Honestly, I don't recommend it for a bulking cycle.
You are consuming high protein with a high caloric cost.
The enzymes are trainined to destroy protein.
Your energy is not likely to be high enough to power intense workouts (so you think you need stimulants that are anti anabolic.)
At some point you will be raising carbs adn drop protein and there will be an adjustment period where you gain up to 10 pounds right away then your muscle gains will seem to freeze or backslide and you will say "See, it makes me fat and does not work."
Starting with lower protein and gradually increasing at say a 45/25/30 ratio as you gain muscle is more optimal.
Would you start training with heavy weights in the 9 rep range and hope to gain muscle when you drop the weight and train in the 20 rep range? Your protein streategy is the same as this...you should start with the LOWEST protein and keep increasing at a stable ratio as you gain muscle.
Your approach is backwards, in short. Your Hormones, Neurotransmitters, and Enzymes will be all wrong to have optimal gains if you do it upside down.