Peak Week Nutrition Resources and pre contest preparation

My first bodybuilding show is about a month away and I was hoping someone would share a great resource on how to determine what factors need to change in a pre contest diet in the peak week for bodybuilding. I've read about water, sodium, sugar, total carb increases/decreases, but nothing with any real scientific backing.

I've also been told I should smear my body in preparation H and drink a glass of red wine with a scoop of NO shotgun before the show.

That last step sounds wild. I would consider tetra pump, and carb loading your muscles makes them appear larger. Dehydration is supposed to help with the "cut look".

If you wish to drink some water days before, and you are trying to lose sodium etc to avoid water retention then distilled water will dehyrate you for that. Do you need to make a certain body weight?

I can see somewhat why you would want to use the red wine and no shotgun...because of the possible pump you would get from the stuff.

If that in fact is the case, try some GPLC and do lots of light reps to get the blood flowing...seriously, it looks like I add about five pounds of muscle and a LOT of fullness when I do a pump workout using GPLC...and it keeps your muscles full like that for a couple hours.

Just my thoughts as something better to use instead of the red wine/shotgun combo.

The reason there isn't scientific backing is because everything is per person. Amount of water to cut from system is per person, carbs to fill out evening before or morning of contest.

Distilled water is great advise also day before you want to have bare minimum water, maybe some black coffee.

It's too close to do a test run now, but you really should have done a sodium and carb cycle pre contest run to see what your body takes to get you to how you want to look.

I'm not a fan of the whole prep H thing, I would use the sauna last week to help dry out as well. Also most peoples workout week looks like Sunday hit legs hard, Monday upper body split+cardio , tues upper body split+cardio, wed full upper body pump workout, thurs rest, friday rest, those last two days you will be hating life as it is from being sore dehydrated and hungry lol.

If you have specific questions feel free to ask, a girl I help train has her first show tomorrow.. wish us good luck