FT Questions....

[thethinker48]

That's still not a study. It's a new story that's poorly referenced and copied / reposted widely.

As far as I can tell, this is the original study that was published:

http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fullt...16)00019-9

(My thoughts on fasting for 1-3 days at the beginning of a blast are still the same and found in [your] answers to the question about how this would impact training... )


And?....


I still don't see how this relates directly to this news story / study.

Are you looking for a reason to fast that will offset / justify your concern with muscle loss?

-Scott

P.S. I'm hoping of course you're just joking about loving FT and your ability to train yourself "into rhabdo." I get the sense here you're deflecting with humor a bit...

I am joking about the rhabdo thing. I'm the guy who runs Tier 1 with every other day training, and it took me many blasts to figure out that it was the best way for me to train and properly recover.

I had a bunch of thoughts in my head with a bunch of sources and a very poor way of covering them as a question [emoji846]

The idea of fasting during a cruise meant a restoration of appetite and giving your digestive tract a break. John Meadows mentioned this in an interview ; we see many many bodybuilders over the years develop some form of gastrointestinal issue like colitis or sheer malabsorption from pounding calories day in and day out. Maybe a 1 day a week fast for the 2 weeks we cruise can help in this regard? But the caloric deficit it creates can be pretty substantial for one trying to grow bigger, and/or hold on to newly acquired muscle.

Now a 72 hour fast is probably not a great idea now that I think about what you mentioned earlier. And fasting overall from a performance perspective (because we are still recovering from the stress accumulated over weeks) seems horrible vs just lowering calories but consuming enough protein to prevent breakdown, and try to hold onto tissue (which is mentioned in the ebook).

Anyway, I think I've answered quite a bit of my own question by thinking it through (which is what u want all of us doing anyway [emoji39] ).

Sorry for the badly put together question.

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