If I may.... what? Where did this come from? What has been your experience?
My experience is purely based on what I have used to lose weight, gain muscle, and improve my performance to eventually pass the PAST for Combat Control. I am not a personal trainer so I cannot use my techniques on other people nor do I have interest in that. So this is just my experience and what has worked for me.
I lost 25 pounds while simultaneously increasing the weight on all my lifts by at least 30 pounds(bench, squat, deadlift etc) and decreasing my run and swim times as well as my ruck times. So that is why I really believe what I have done has worked. It took me a long time to figure out my body and to filter the bullshit in the fitness industry. I've tried all the fad diets and workouts before I finally found what works.
That's not really how intermittent fasting works. You would fast for one day during the week, it works for some people and doesn't always work for others. I prefer not to do any workout completely fasted, so if I'm up early in morning for a run I throw down a banana right away.
Here's a bunch of videos on intermittent fasting from one of my favorite bodybuilders, has one of the best brands in the supplement industry and talks to everyone who writes him an email. And also a dietician that is a Bikini Pro.
At the end of the day though, it's about what works and has worked for you.
Oh boy okay...first I'd like to say that I have no idea who that guy is so I cannot speak to him or his experience. I also did not watch the last video due to time constraints.
So to start off in the first video, he says Intermittent fasting is an eating disorder. It is not. It is a style of eating. You are not starving yourself. You Still eat all your meals you just do it in a short amount of time. I still eat 2300 calories a day, I just eat it in a small timeframe. He mentions eating 3 meals a day. That is purely a cultural thing. Read these
Why We Shouldn't Be Eating 3 Meals A Day
There Is No Biological Reason to Eat Three Meals a Day -- So Why Do We Do It?
Humans used to eat when they were hungry. Maybe once a day or even once every couple days. So what we call Intermittent Fasting used to be the norm for humans because that is what we are bilogically designed for. IF is not starving or an eating disorder.
Okay for the second video: This dude is
clearly on roids and probably some other junk. I do not take fitness advice from some juiced up dude. I don't care that he is on roids, he can do what he wants but his fitness goals and training programs are not geared towards someone like me who is training purely for performance and not just pure muscle size. He talks about how IF will not help with protein synthesis or to gain weight. He is right. But I am not trying to pack on muscle. I am trying to become a lean mean fighting machine. Not someone who considers the eliptical a cardio machine. If he were to work out fasted
he would not die. He is being super dramataic. The human body can endure a lot and him telling his "followers" he would die if he worked out fasted is pure utter bullshit. He lost all credibility with me as soon as he spewed that fitness bullshit on the internet.
Also, people can diet and exercise however they want. Find what works for you and stick to it. I have no problem with it. I was not advocating IF, I am just trying to defend it frrom false information. I am also just providing a plausible explanation as to why
@Ooh-Rah experienced prolonged endurance during his workout.
Also, one of the main reasons I like IF, is the simplicity. It is so easy to only have to worry about eating once a day, and then not have to worry about it the rest of the day. It is super convenient and easy to work into most schedules.
To end here are some solid resources on IF and why it works and why it is not dangerous.
Intermittent Fasting 101 - The Ultimate Beginner's Guide
Best of luck to everyone on their fitness goals.
