I spent the last 3 months bulking up. I followed a strict weight lifting routine, doing 5x5 sets.
When I started I could barely bench 160 5x5, and when I stopped this phase last week, my last day I did 210 5x5. Never been this strong in my life.
Now I'm going into a cutting phase. I look significantly bigger now, but I'd say 25% of the weight I put on is fat. I ATE A LOT over the past 3 months.
6 months ago, I did a 3 month (prior to bulking up) weight loss phase. I had hurt my back pretty bad 2 years ago and slowly got myself worked up to doing an intense 3 month cardio phase. I had been running off and on (2-3 days a week) for a year leading up to it, but I didn't really get super serious until recently. I lost about 25 pounds over the 3 months.
Anyways, I'm going back into a weight loss/cutting phase.
My question is, how do you guys feel about strategic fasting? I've seen the idea tossed around on different sites. Basically, the idea is you have to take in a certain amount of calories each day to keep your metabolism from crashing, and then burn more calories and run a caloric deficit. I get that idea.
How quickly does your metabolism crash though? If I go 2 weeks straight of reaching my ideal caloric intake, maybe burning 800 calories at the gym 6 nights a week, and then going one day where i just completely fast, maybe taking in 500-1000 calories AND burning that much, just for one day, then going back to my normal routine.. Will my metabolism crash? Or will it be come and gone before my metabolism takes a hit?
Basically what I was reading is that if you do this like 2-3 times a month, it could potentially squeeze an extra 6000 calories burned in that period, and over 3 months might net you an additional 5 pounds lost. If your goal is to lose 20 pounds in 3 months, that's a 25% gain over not doing the strategic fast.
Thoughts?
CLIFFS: Go 13 days eating enough that your metabolism stays high, while doing cardio and burning a lot of calories, followed by 1 day of hardly eating anything AND burning a lot of calories via cardio. Rinse, repeat. Will this 1 day of fasting crash your metabolism?
When I started I could barely bench 160 5x5, and when I stopped this phase last week, my last day I did 210 5x5. Never been this strong in my life.
Now I'm going into a cutting phase. I look significantly bigger now, but I'd say 25% of the weight I put on is fat. I ATE A LOT over the past 3 months.
6 months ago, I did a 3 month (prior to bulking up) weight loss phase. I had hurt my back pretty bad 2 years ago and slowly got myself worked up to doing an intense 3 month cardio phase. I had been running off and on (2-3 days a week) for a year leading up to it, but I didn't really get super serious until recently. I lost about 25 pounds over the 3 months.
Anyways, I'm going back into a weight loss/cutting phase.
My question is, how do you guys feel about strategic fasting? I've seen the idea tossed around on different sites. Basically, the idea is you have to take in a certain amount of calories each day to keep your metabolism from crashing, and then burn more calories and run a caloric deficit. I get that idea.
How quickly does your metabolism crash though? If I go 2 weeks straight of reaching my ideal caloric intake, maybe burning 800 calories at the gym 6 nights a week, and then going one day where i just completely fast, maybe taking in 500-1000 calories AND burning that much, just for one day, then going back to my normal routine.. Will my metabolism crash? Or will it be come and gone before my metabolism takes a hit?
Basically what I was reading is that if you do this like 2-3 times a month, it could potentially squeeze an extra 6000 calories burned in that period, and over 3 months might net you an additional 5 pounds lost. If your goal is to lose 20 pounds in 3 months, that's a 25% gain over not doing the strategic fast.
Thoughts?
CLIFFS: Go 13 days eating enough that your metabolism stays high, while doing cardio and burning a lot of calories, followed by 1 day of hardly eating anything AND burning a lot of calories via cardio. Rinse, repeat. Will this 1 day of fasting crash your metabolism?
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