The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
well.blogs.nytimes.com
The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
1–10 of 88 posts
Re: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
#2This is hardly amazing to anyone who fasts regularly. I saw increases in all my major lifts when I train fasted and eat plenty of good fat (60% of total kcal).
I would love to get a hold of the full study for a better look at it.
Edit:
Reading this article a bit closer, and taking to look at the study, it is clear that the author has some serious bias against the idea that a high-fat diet with fasted training will be of benefit. The people who lost weight were eating 30% more than usual. If they modified there diet to 50% of fat, and not increased calories, you would have seen an even great weight drop.
Re: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
#3I am finally able to do regular workouts after recovering from a slipped disk. But, the weight I have put on in the intervening time is hard to work off, especially this time of year.
So I am going to try this and see if it improves my burn rate, or at least slows my girth rate. :-)
Re: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
#4Come to think of it, this makes sense historically speaking. You can't eat it until you catch it.
Re: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
#5Come to think of it, this makes sense historically speaking. You can't eat it until you catch it.
Unless you saved a bit from yesterday's kill.
Re: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
#6This is hardly amazing to anyone who fasts regularly. I saw increases in all my major lifts when I train fasted and eat plenty of good fat (60% of total kcal). I would love to get a hold of the full study for a better look at it. Edit: Reading this article a bit closer, and taking to look at the study, it is clear that the author has some serious bias against the idea that a high-fat diet with fasted training will be…
'fast' is a terrible word, IMHO. Denying yourself food for a handful of hours is not the same as denying yourself food for several days, and yet both are considered fasting.
How long were the fasts you took? I am curious because my lifts suffer when I have not eaten breakfast, and I'm pretty sure it's because of the exhausted feeling in my muscles, which I attribute to the lack of food.
Re: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
#7Come to think of it, this makes sense historically speaking. You can't eat it until you catch it.
Unless you saved a bit from yesterday's kill.
And even that makes sense. When you have leftovers from yesterday, it's a brief 'time of plenty' and thus a good time to gain weight (build up reserves), hence the weight gain of those who eat before exercising, or eat and don't exercise!
Re: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
#8This is hardly amazing to anyone who fasts regularly. I saw increases in all my major lifts when I train fasted and eat plenty of good fat (60% of total kcal). I would love to get a hold of the full study for a better look at it. Edit: Reading this article a bit closer, and taking to look at the study, it is clear that the author has some serious bias against the idea that a high-fat diet with fasted training will be…
'fast' is a terrible word, IMHO. Denying yourself food for a handful of hours is not the same as denying yourself food for several days, and yet both are considered fasting. How long were the fasts you took? I am curious because my lifts suffer when I have not eaten breakfast, and I'm pretty sure it's because of the exhausted feeling in my muscles, which I attribute to the lack of food.
denying yourself food for days is starving not fasting HaHa.
I fast every day, 16-19 hrs at a time. I train completely for strength rather than endurance, so lift super heavy for 4-5. Max 2-3 sets. If you are going for muscle endurance (8reps+) then some food prior to training.
Re: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
#9Wow, this is amazing. I'd love to try it out, but I'm not sure what I can do in the morning before breakfast. Maybe stationary bicycle. Anybody exercising before breakfast? What kind of exercise are you doing?
Re: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
#10Wow, this is amazing. I'd love to try it out, but I'm not sure what I can do in the morning before breakfast. Maybe stationary bicycle. Anybody exercising before breakfast? What kind of exercise are you doing?
jump on the stationary bike and go at a slow pace (60-65% max heartrate).
I have seen this work wonders on countless people.