Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is not any kind of diet but just define when you can and can't eat.

If you're getting into intermittent fasting I recommend Brandon Carter's videos on YouTube. He's the most modest, straight up fellow around on the subject, for the most part.

jsho27 wrote: »

Agree with trigden. You're not going to build much if any muscle fasting. Maybe beginner gains, but that won't last long.

I guess you haven't heard of leangains then? You can gain muscle with IF, if you can get enough calories. But many people will find it's a struggle to get adequate calories and appropriate macronutrients by doing so.

jsho27 wrote: »

Agree with trigden. You're not going to build much if any muscle fasting. Maybe beginner gains, but that won't last long.

I know you believe this guy, right?


Beginner gains?
You are way off on this one and I recommend that you do some research (leangains as mentioned above).

The summary points are:
-IF is making a conscious decision to skip certain meals.
-During an IF your body doesn’t have a recently consumed meal to use as energy, so it is more likely to pull from the fat stored in your body, rather than the glucose in your blood stream or glycogen in your muscles/liver.
-Rather than having to prepare, pack, eat, and time your meals every 2-3 hours, you simply skip a meal or two and only worry about eating food in your eating window.
-One draw back is the "adjustment" - yes you will be miserable to start off with so I would suggest a gradual adjustment doing once or twice a week (up the duration of the fast).
--Read if you do it too quickly there's always the risk that you'll give up or perhaps just go crazy gorging yourself without getting good macros




Just to be clear IF is not "this" -- there's nothing magical about it.

So, don’t expect to drop to 8% body fat and get ripped just by skipping breakfast. You need to focus on building healthy habits, eating better foods, and getting stronger.

..And it is correct to assert that it is possible to make similar advancement without using IF.
The beauty, however, is the simplicity and the flexibility that it provides for a busy schedule.

As far as developing muscle, this really boils down to your training program...

If I had to eat my 3300-3500 calories in a specific eating window, I would definitely fail.. so would not be helpful for me. It can be done, but if you are already struggling to get the cals in, I wouldn't recommend it. Basically.. as soon as I wake up I eat.. and right before I lie down for bed, I eat. Oh and if it's 4am and I'm hungry? I eat.. no rules

gabby3265 wrote: »

Am a beginner here, but as far as I know you'll get more definition on your muscles if you do intermittent fasting ... more when you're small and you want to get muscle without getting forcing yourself to eat..

You wont get more definition by doing IF. And if anything IF will cause people to force feed themselves since they have a smaller window to eat.