Diet question

[Donuts]

Sup guys, I have a quick question about my new diet. I just came off of a primo / test cycle, now currently on a TRT dose of test. I did a little bit of a cut on this cycle dropping from 185 to 175lbs 5’ 7”. Sitting at 10% body fat.

My question is, will this new diet (increased carbs and dropped protein a little, keeping fats minimal) get rid of my vascularity since I am increasing carbs? Ideally I am trying to put on a little more size as I have plans on competing next summer. My macros are 220 protein, 350 carb, 60 fat, 3072 calories. Carb sources are jasmine rice, cream of rice, ezekiel bread as those all seem to digest quickly in my body. I had carbs a lot lower on my test / primo cycle so I am curious as to if this increase in carbs is going to have a more watery look to my physique

 

[JDLift]

Maybe I'm an outlier but I get MORE vascular on higher carbs. I pound shit food (little debbies, pizza) the night before and morning of every comp I've entered (PL, not BB to be fair) and when I get my pics and videos from the photographers afterwards I always have a nice web on my forearms and a big thick bastard in my biceps. I even saw a quad vein once or twice lol. Could possibly be due to different drugs I take vs what you take/will take but I genuinely think carbs are just gonna make em pop more for you and most people as well.

 

[MEAUX]

vascularity has more to do with body fat and genetics in my experience. The same BF plus more carbs would most likely have you more vascular and better pumps. I'm not vascular at all but the only time I get veins poppin in my wrists and chest is when im low BF and on tren tbf

 

[EpicFlash]

I am very vascular pretty much all the time. I get the “watery,soft” look when my sodium intake is really high. So when I am adding carbs, I just make sure to not add a bunch of sodium with those carbs. Regardless of where my macros are, I try to actually stick to the 2000 mg of sodium intake a day.

 

[Luxferro]

Vascularity’s a fascinating one. There’s a lot of factors that contribute to vascularity:

1) Leanness. Too much fat and you can’t see the blood vessels
2) Training. The more you train a muscle, the more vascularized it becomes as an adaptive response to the training. Repeatedly engorging a muscle with blood prompts angiogenesis due to the mechanical load.
3) Vasodilation of the underlying blood vessel. This can be caused things that significantly increase nitric oxide production.
4) Carb loading/water retention. If your muscles pull a lot of water in, they will put more pressure on the blood vessels and cause them to pop out more.

 

[Thrasymachus]

I'd stick with non grain carbs, matter of fact I'd completely get rid of all grains. Rice has shit for nutrition.

Sweet Potatoes specifically as the singly most nutrient dense carb there is and it will fill you up so you don't over do carbs.

Vascularity is more the result of high rep high volume training and keeping lean. Nothing develops vascularity like continuous hours of torture forcing the body to demand more and more blood to the muscles. When I was training 3hrs a day and many times 5hrs on my days off from work up until my mid 30's that was when I had blood vessels popping all over my body especially my legs that I would pound into the ground where it felt like I'd taken a blow torch to the muscle.