Carbs during an off season blast, am I leaving size on the table sitting at moderate carbs?

Genuine off season question. Im 220lbs running 800 test and 400 deca for a 16 week blast and feel like i should be growing faster than i am. Macros are sitting at 380g protein and 350g carbs, calories around 4400 with the fats filling the rest.

Reading old prep logs the carb numbers some guys throw out look insane, 700g, 800g, even more. Am i leaving size on the table by being protein heavy and moderate on carbs, or is 350g enough if the calorie total is high enough and the gear is doing the heavy lifting?

Curious what the off season crew is actually hitting daily and how high you push carbs before the gut gets in the way.

Switched from 350g carbs to 500g on my last blast and the difference in fullness and pump was obvious within 10 days. I'm 95kg so that put me at about 5g per kg. Cream of rice around training is the easiest way to get the numbers up without feeling stuffed, hard to do with oats only. The gear was doing its job the whole time, I just was not feeding the signal properly.

Carbs on cycle are not optional if you actually want to use the anabolic environment you paid for. Members running 200g carbs on a 1g test blast are leaving most of the result on the table, the gear is primed and the substrate is not there.

Carbs make the difference on a blast. Protein gets the headlines but the carb intake is what actually lets the gear do its work.

If youre on a proper blast and sitting at moderate carbs youre wasting half the gear. The whole point of being on is your body can actually use the carbs for glycogen and protein sparing, eat low and that anabolic environment is just sitting there doing nothing. I run 4-5g per kg on a blast, for me at 100kg thats 400-500g and thats the floor not the target. Cream of rice and jasmine rice are how I actually hit it, you cant eat that kind of volume off oats and potatoes without feeling like death. Load most of it round training too, the pumps and recovery are night and day vs spreading it flat across the day.

600g sounds mad until you actually need it. On a proper blast your body partitions carbs way better than natural so eating moderate is leaving size on the table. I run 4 to 5g per kg through a bulk, for me at 100kg that is 400 to 500g minimum and the difference in fullness and pumps is night and day. Cream of rice and jasmine are the only way I can get there without feeling stuffed, oats just sit in me. Load the bulk of them around training too, the pumps and recovery from peri workout carbs beat spreading them flat across the day.