[quote]Trenchant wrote:
I remember that Shugart did an interview with a 70 something year old guy who really promoted this…Art something.
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DeVaney?
I tried fasting a lot in my teens, and while it produced rapid and immediate weight-loss, I almost always ended up binge eating because I was so hungry. The net result was muscles loss and fat gain:-(.
I’ve shed and kept off 45lbs of body-fat for quite a few years now and the 5-6 small meals per day plan has worked really well for ME.
ponce, i actually didn’t plagiarize, i remember that from biology freshman year of college lol…
Getswole, I did skim that article by alan, but i need to actually read it soon, it seemed pretty factual, yet he lets us make our own decisions and doesn’t persuade anyone to try anything
[quote]Kaylak wrote:
Trenchant wrote:
I remember that Shugart did an interview with a 70 something year old guy who really promoted this…Art something.
I don’t like it, though.
Art devany (at website of same name). I like some of his ideas, but he gets a little zealous at times. However, he only recommends fasting one of every three or so days, just eating nothing after lunchtime until breakfast the next day.
Haven’t tried that, but I have done the warrior diet - it feels excellent, your body releases opiates after a certain period of fasting, which is why this diet is addictive and feels so damn good. Is it useful for gaining musclemass? As everyone’s said, not so much. But it’s certainly fun to try out.
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Art DeVaney was a big strong kid at 16 years old. He is approximately the same size as he was then. He is a very impressive individual but he has never had to struggle to grow. He has been essentially the same size for 50 years.
Zap, that’s true - but he’s never really claimed to actually want to gain size, deriding bodybuilding as an unhealthy lifestyle. If you look at the amount he eats a day, it’s tiny.
Whilst not my first point of reference for bodybuilding advice, he does have interesting ideas on general health. Also, Cressey has mentioned recently the value of cycling caloric intake to prevent either excess fat gain during a bulk, or metabolic slowdown during a cut.
So how would a sample day look like I do not understand the 16 hour fast.
Lets say you stop eating at 7 oclock at night, you then fast for the next 16 hours so until 11 oclock the next morning then you eat and workout and try to get you caloric needs in, in that window then start over again.
If you are eating all your meals in an 8hr window, the meals would be larger so wouldn’t your insulin levels be raised higher? How is it that this reduces insulin levels?
Well first off, a lot of the carbs are surrounding a workout, which everyone agrees promotes a better work out and stops catabloism with little blood sugar effect.
Then to top it off, you don’t have a single thing for 16 hours. You don’t eat anything thing you want, it’s again the timing of what you eat.
I don’t think it is optimal for muscle gain but for fatloss again it’s another tool for the toolbox if it works for you.