Maximising Motor Unit Recruitment (MUR)
Not having maximum motor unit recruitment or MUR, is an absolute detriment to your muscle building and maintaining capabilities. Motor unit recruitment refers to the process by which the nervous system activates motor units to produce muscle contractions. This is an essential process for strength and motor function, as well as endurance. Low glycogen means that you will become fatigued much faster meaning you may cannot sustain recruitment of high-threshold motor units. If you actually look at the scientific literature of low carb and ketogenic diets for high load scenarios, it shows that peak force was reduced and that neuromuscular function was impaired. The neurological process of MUR doesn’t directly depend on carbohydrates. MUR still happens with no carbs, however it is not at its peak so we would not have peak performance or endurance to carry out a whole gym session, which as a result means we would not have peak hypertrophy.
How to maximise MUR?
To maximise our motor unit recruitment, you are going to be wanting to eat between 250-300g of carbs pre workout. There is no reason to be consuming carbs other than pre workout. 250-300g of carbs will pretty much max out your MUR.
How to have maximum MUR on a cut when calories are lower
When on a cut, our calorie intake is lower, but we still want to have maximum motor. The reason why people are losing muscle in a cut is because they are slashing calories from their carbs meaning they have less MUR. So, to keep maximum MUR we are going keep our carbs at 300g a day pre workout (1200 calories), and keep fat intake to an absolute minimum since fats to not have any anabolic pathways and are over double the calories of that of fats.
MYOPS
MYOPS stands for myofibrillar protein synthesis, and this is another mechanism that we want to maximise for hypertrophy. According to the literature, 0.7-1g protein per lbs of bodyweight is ideal. Anything more is cope and taking away calories that could have been put into carb intake, or if you carb intake is already maxed out, making your deficit smaller. I would go for 1g per lbs of bodyweight since the literature is still unclear on the optimal, so better to be safe and go with 1g/lbs bodyweight.
Minimising fat intake and hormones
First off, as an enhanced individual, you are not going to need fat intake since you are not relying on your endocrine system for hormone production. If you are natural, you still want to keep fat intake to a minimum, since the decrease in Test level is going to be so small it will not have any effect on your capabilities to retain muscle, but decreased carb intake will.