Athletes Lose Fat But Not Muscle by Intermittent Fasting

[Nelson Vergel]

Experienced strength athletes lose fat by intermittent fasting, not muscle mass or strength


Strength athletes perform no better or worse if they do time-restricted feeding we wrote yesterday, based on an American study in which the participants did weight training for the first time in their life. In 2016 Italian sports scientists published in the Journal of Translational Medicine their findings from a comparable study. But the Italians used bodybuilders who had at least five years' experience of weight training. And these bodybuilders reacted a bit differently to the combination of intermittent fasting and strength training than untrained people...

http://www.ergo-log.com/strength-at...tent-fasting-not-muscle-mass-or-strength.html

 

[bikerbear]

Hmmm. I wonder if losing 1.31 kg (2.89 lb) more fat on average was worth 8 weeks of fasting 16 hours a day to these guys.

 

[SoCal Guy]

Hmmm. I wonder if losing 1.31 kg (2.89 lb) more fat on average was worth 8 weeks of fasting 16 hours a day to these guys.

Is that that much of a sacrifice? To delay breakfast until 11 and finish dinner by 7?