Facts About Fasting For Muscle Gain

By Deborah Singer


Many people would think it ironic to undergo fasting when looking to gain muscles. This is because it is common knowledge that to increase muscles, an individual has to eat a lot of calories and do a lot of heavyweight lifting daily. So how is fasting for muscle gain even possible? This article discuses this issue to give a perspective on how this can be possible.

Before starting on the issue, it is good that people understand how muscles are built. Muscle build up depends greatly on progressive heavy lifting, diet and recovery. An individual ought to lift the heavy weights daily and ensure to add weights the bar more often. But care must be taken not to tear the muscles thus one should put weights that he can lift.

As for nutrition of such persons, there foods include vitamins, carbohydrates proteins, fats and also minerals. These foods are burnt down during the heavy lifting to build the muscles. At recovery time, persons ensure to get sufficient amounts of sleep and also avoid stressful situations at all times as this might lead to weight loss. Adhering to this routine will lead to an individual building the muscles he wants.

Back to the issue of fasting and this process is usually known for clearing the body off its toxins. It can be incorporated successfully into muscle increase procedure where the individual consumes food only when training. This exercise is also known as nutrient timing and the calories one gains will be burnt down during the heavy lifting. Once the training days are over, it is recovery time and one can use this time to go on a fast.

In many cases, people usually think of junking and lazing around when in recovery period. But instead of eating junk, a person can take this time to eat nothing at all, just drinking water. For people wondering where the body will get energy to carry out its normal processes the answer is that the stored fats will be broken down to release energy. Once the recovery is over, a person can get back to the routine of nutrition and progressive overload.

The idea is very beneficial especially for individuals who tend to gain extra fat when they are trying to put on muscles. This is because the fat they gain during this process will now be burned down at this time. Since the fat reserves will be depleted, when an individual goes back to the heavy lifting and eating routine, the calories taken would be used as energy source at that time rather than being stored as fat.

The duration when a person will be going without food varies in a lot of people. There are some routines where people can fast daily whenever they are not exercising. For example, an individual can stay without eating for 16 hours then coincide eating with the heavy lifting sessions for like 8 hours a day (meaning 2meals a day). This routine is very intense and persons should not strain themselves if they cannot do it.

This procedure is more like eat stop eat and is commonly known by people as intermittent fasting. People are now able to get muscles and burn fat at the same time. Individuals thinking of starting out in this procedure should however research more about it and consult with a trainer to find out a plan that works for them.




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