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What do you think of water fasting and weight lifting?
Water fasting ensures you won’t get dehydrated, but fasting will fail after more than a few
reps.
Fasting allows you to burn fat while water fasting fuels the workout.
Water fasting just means you don’t eat but do drink water. A lack of food will start
to slow your metabolism down, no matter how much you work out.
Working out while staying hydrated lets you burn calories twice as fast, since you aren’t
taking any in.
People on starvation rations don’t do much work because they don’t have the energy.
A few hours without food, and you can’t get a decent workout in.
Lifting weights on a fast accelerates weight loss.
Why are you so eager to volunteer for what is historically seen as torture? Oh, and since
you’ll still lose electrolytes in your sweat, it can make you sick.
I heard guys talk about water fasting along with their morning workout every day.
That’s a different matter. They are hitting the gym every morning before breakfast, but
they do eat a full meal.
Does that improve their weight loss?
Those who worked out before exercising gained little to no weight, while those who tried
to workout after a full breakfast gained several pounds.
That’s evidence in its favor.
In that case, they burned off some of the calories they were about to consume. But it
was only a 12 to 16 hour fast at max, not a days long fast.
I’ve heard that alternate day fasting improves glucose control. Can you combine that with
exercise to prevent diabetes?
Don’t try to workout after going 24 hours without food. You risk passing out or worse.
So you think water fasting is counter productive.
You can’t lose fat or build muscle if you can’t fuel your workout. And passing out
while lifting weights and breaking your neck is counter-productive to long term fitness
goals.