Fasted cardio and fat loss

Foamroller

There's an interesting thread right now. A guy who obviously does not believe in fasted cardio giving more fat loss, just posted this thread:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10023219/yet-another-study-debunking-fasted-cardio#latest

...thinking the study is supporting his belief. I wonder if he even read the study or just skimmed the conclusion section.

Read my comment about the results in absolute numbers:
Fasted cardio gave the study participants who fasted cardio a BF% loss of 1.3, while the fed group only lost 0.7% bodyfat. That is a whopping 0.6% difference in bodyfat loss over a period of only 4 weeks. And this was low intensity cardio too.

These were healthy, normal BMI, young athletic women, so take the numbers with a grain of salt, pls.

sijomial

Statistically insignificant difference, well under the accuracy level for the BF testing done and a small sample size anyway. No study like that is going to give a definitive answer.
Would agree you that as is far too common on MFP the headline and the story don't match - the study didn't debunk anything, it's just mildly interesting. Unusual for the poster Azdak who is normally a good source of info.

One thing I would say with some confidence is that doing fasted cardio makes you better at fasted cardio. I'm yet to be convinced of anything beyond that, either way.