Fasting Role in Bodybuilding Training
Intermittent Fasting Role in Bodybuilding Training:
The central idea behind the implementation of intermittent fasting is to reduce overall calorie consumption, ideally resulting in weight loss. Typically, IF protocols will have the individual undergo a period of intentional severe calorie restriction (ranging from 0-25 percent of the individual's normal daily caloric intake) for a period of 16-24 hours. Following the restrictive phase, the individual returns to relatively normal energy intake for 8-24 hours, depending on which version of IF they are following.
Can Fasting Have Effects On A Bodybuilder?
Fasting has been a controversial subject amongst the bodybuilding community for many years. Due to …show more content…
By abstaining from everything but water during the day till you take your test, you can get an accurate representation of blood sugar levels and tell whether you are hyperglycemic (too much blood glucose), hypoglycemic (too little blood glucose), and find out where you may have diabetes or not. A similar test is carried out to test for cholesterol and get an accurate reading based off a fasted state so that what you eat will not temporarily elevate blood cholesterol.
Biggest Cons To Fasting:
One of the biggest cons to fasting is that it can and will most likely slow down your metabolism. To what extent it does so is up to you, because if you're eating quality foods at the right times, and exercising at the right times, your metabolism should still stay at a fairly reasonable level.
Endurance athletes, or athletes of any type will also find it difficult to perform under fasted conditions as the energy source of muscles, glycogen (a derivative of starches and ingested carbohydrates) is hard to come by after a certain point in the day when your breakfast is starting to wear off.
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It has to be broken down for either energy or into its amino acid monomers in order to rebuild other proteins in muscles that have been broken down (for instance when a person lifts weights while fasting).
Effects of Fasting:
I have felt the effects of fasting before. Not being able to eat for a whole day would qualify me to talk about this. Essentially, fasting makes you feel weak. There is just no energy to do anything, including going and getting up to eaten oddly.
If someone were planning to work out while fasting in the future, I would wish them luck, because it is incredibly hard to do because the weakness as well as the stomach cramping is tough to cope with. As well as the feelings you get, the changes in your physique are also noticeable.
My Energy Levels:
First off, when I started not eating, my energy levels were the first to drop. I was drinking coffee like no tomorrow to compensate for how I felt. This of course left me dehydrated and even more tired as a result. Next was the brain and thoughts.
Crazy
Intermittent Fasting Role in Bodybuilding Training:
The central idea behind the implementation of intermittent fasting is to reduce overall calorie consumption, ideally resulting in weight loss. Typically, IF protocols will have the individual undergo a period of intentional severe calorie restriction (ranging from 0-25 percent of the individual's normal daily caloric intake) for a period of 16-24 hours. Following the restrictive phase, the individual returns to relatively normal energy intake for 8-24 hours, depending on which version of IF they are following.
Can Fasting Have Effects On A Bodybuilder?
Fasting has been a controversial subject amongst the bodybuilding community for many years. Due to …show more content…
By abstaining from everything but water during the day till you take your test, you can get an accurate representation of blood sugar levels and tell whether you are hyperglycemic (too much blood glucose), hypoglycemic (too little blood glucose), and find out where you may have diabetes or not. A similar test is carried out to test for cholesterol and get an accurate reading based off a fasted state so that what you eat will not temporarily elevate blood cholesterol.
Biggest Cons To Fasting:
One of the biggest cons to fasting is that it can and will most likely slow down your metabolism. To what extent it does so is up to you, because if you're eating quality foods at the right times, and exercising at the right times, your metabolism should still stay at a fairly reasonable level.
Endurance athletes, or athletes of any type will also find it difficult to perform under fasted conditions as the energy source of muscles, glycogen (a derivative of starches and ingested carbohydrates) is hard to come by after a certain point in the day when your breakfast is starting to wear off.
Fasted For Religious …show more content…
It has to be broken down for either energy or into its amino acid monomers in order to rebuild other proteins in muscles that have been broken down (for instance when a person lifts weights while fasting).
Effects of Fasting:
I have felt the effects of fasting before. Not being able to eat for a whole day would qualify me to talk about this. Essentially, fasting makes you feel weak. There is just no energy to do anything, including going and getting up to eaten oddly.
If someone were planning to work out while fasting in the future, I would wish them luck, because it is incredibly hard to do because the weakness as well as the stomach cramping is tough to cope with. As well as the feelings you get, the changes in your physique are also noticeable.
My Energy Levels:
First off, when I started not eating, my energy levels were the first to drop. I was drinking coffee like no tomorrow to compensate for how I felt. This of course left me dehydrated and even more tired as a result. Next was the brain and thoughts.
Crazy