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Add in 48 hr fasting every week for added progress.
by sridca 7y ago
Add in 48 hr fasting every week for added progress.
- mindgam3 7y agoYou've got to be kidding me. Fasting for two days + frequent strength workouts sounds like a 100% guaranteed recipe for catastrophically low blood sugar levels. I get hangry and stupid if I don't eat for a few hours.
- sridca 7y agoI'm not. To achieve hypertrophy and strength what is needed at minimum is a sensible program combined with over-time calorie surplus. 48 hour fasting is not gonna suddenly change all that. If anything fasting increases growth hormones. In my experience it actually improves my performance (probably due to HGH increase and autophagy). Educate yourself on it instead of going by what "sounds like" or following conventional wisdom (such as "working to failure").
- sridca 7y agohttps://idmprogram.com/difference-calorie-restriction-fasting-fasting-27/ https://idmprogram.com/difference-calorie-restriction-fastin... Lean mass % increased by 2.2% with fasting and only 0.5% with CRaP. In other words, fasting is 4 times better at preserving lean mass. So much of that old ‘fasting burns the muscle’.