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Is intermittent fasting good for bulking?
Intermittent fasting makes it hard to bulk up, because fasting longer than overnight
interferes with getting enough calories.
I’ve heard guys say they have to do it to get in shape for competition.
Intermittent fasting where you delay breakfast until after you’ve done cardio. You tend
to get an hour in before energy levels run down, but you keep your metabolic rate high
the rest of the day.
What about intermittent fasting where you don’t eat for a whole day?
Intermittent fasting can put your body in starvation mode. Now your body wants to store
energy as fat instead of using it to build muscle.
What do you think about intermittent fasting a day before a competition?
A lot of people water fast the day before competition to lose as much weight as possible.
But your diet should be a long term plan, not a short term one.
Body builders are looking at something months long if not life long.
You can lose fat while fasting, and you can build muscle while losing fat. You can’t
fast, lose weight AND grow muscle.
That’s like the old joke you can have it fast, cheap or good – pick any two. You’re
saying you can lose fat and fast but not build while fasting.
Intermittent fasting causes an appetite suppressing effect for some. Then you have trouble getting
enough food in the next day.
And body builders lose muscle if they don’t consume enough calories.
They also lose muscle if fasting means they don’t have enough energy to workout.
And sleeping in won’t improve your physique unless you want to end up looking like a sumo
wrestlers.
They are the only athletes for whom power napping is a necessity.
But they don’t fast, either.
That doesn’t mean fasting is good for bulking. Quite the opposite.