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Intermittent fasting: Effective?

Or Destroyer Of Worlds…

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If you shave the fat off of your body, you will be faster, and you will be able to last longer in just about any physical activity.

Boom.  This newsletter is still technically martial arts related.

It would also just be nice to see my abs again before gluttony sends me to an early grave.

Nevertheless, dieting fads come and go… but one of the most recent to sorta ‘take over’ is the concept of intermittent fasting; which was the most commonly Google searched in 2019.

I mean, how can it get easier?  Instead of preparing healthy food, you just prepare NO food.  Brilliant!

Any break from eating is obviously a ‘fast’, but how long is too long?  For example, when your body is pumping out the catabolic hormones that help you burn fat, those hormones are not necessarily doing ‘good’ things for your muscles.  So how deep into a state of starvation should an athlete really be going?

This article does a good job of breaking down a recent study which compared intermittent fasting with a regular old calorie restriction diet, allowing more frequent meals.

“Over the course of the study, participants in the fasting group lost about three and a half pounds. But the bulk of pounds lost wasn’t fat.

Crucially, it was lean mass, including muscle. Typically, about 20 to 30 percent of total weight loss is lean mass. In this study, the proportion of lean mass loss was 65 percent.

“You don’t want to lose lean mass. You want to lose fat mass,” Weiss (the study’s author) says. “Here we found that two-thirds of weight loss came from lean mass.”

So CALORIES BEING HELD EQUAL, both groups lost the same amount of weight, but the intermittent fasting group experienced a greater reduction of muscle.

THAT… will not make you faster.

In fact, that will make it harder for you to burn fat in the future… since fat is burned within muscle cells during exercise.

More muscle = More fat burning potential

The truth is, intermittent fasting fan / support groups post some very compelling before and after shots… but it’s very rare to see anyone looking “strong” in that after shot.

Joe Rogan may be the only exception:

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…but Joe also fully admits to “supplementing his testosterone,” which means that his test-tickles no longer need to produce it naturally.

Since his nuts no longer have to do any work, they will atrophy into fuzzy functionless raisinettes; a fate unbefitting a warrior such as Joe.

Or perhaps I’m just not man enough to let go of the fullness of my nuggets.

As such, as I continue the endless quest to restore my abs of old, but I will do so by eating undesirable food more regularly.

Yay.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Go burn some fat.

-Trav

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