“Man, I’m going to burn muscle if I fast”.  This is the line I hear most often when I talk about fasting.  Intermittent fasting for muscle building just ain’t the norm.  The term ‘fasting’ just doesn’t sound right in muscle building circles, does it?  Just the other day I was talking with a friend of mine; this particular friend has the metabolism of an elephant.  I could literally inject sugar in to his blood all day long and we might be lucky if a millimeter of fat built up.  Think he’s lucky?  Not so fast (pun intended), building muscle isn’t his thing either (or so he thinks).  I’m convinced if he came under my wing and did as he was told for a few months we’d be looking at a completely different man.  He’d like it too.  Unfortunately building muscle does take a bit of diligence which isn’t for a lot of people.  Anyway, moving on…I told him I can fast all day and never burn any muscle.  Of course he was surprised.  Who wouldn’t be?  No calories surely equals no muscle.  I disagree,obviously.

As a side note; I almost fell from my seat when I saw this picture.

Intermittent Fasting for Muscle Building

It’s probably a good thing there are no thumbs down buttons for blogs otherwise the title alone would have the stereotypical muscle building community kicking down my doors.  I’m serious, some guys take this way too seriously.  I digress.  Alrighty, here goes; you have a few friends that work out all the time and never seem to get any bigger right?  We all do.  They’ve got skinny packs.  By the way, skinny packs don’t count for six packs; you’re just skinny.  I’m permanently confused by girls that fall for this.  “Oh my God, he’s so ripped.”  😐� .

Most skinny guys you know probably eat all day and never put on any weight.  They also probably eat a ton more junk food that you or I.  It drives me cuckoo too.  Well, here’s why they’re not putting on any muscle.

Number #1 is you just aren’t eating enough calories, specifically muscle building calories.  Number #2 is there’s never any change in your blood sugar levels.  Well, there is but you see when you constantly eat crap food your blood sugar is always high.  It just so happens these skinny guys can metabolize that sugar more efficiently than you or I can.  What’s that got to do with muscle?  Well, muscle requires sugar to grow right?  The problem exists when there is never anything new added to the mix.  Your body hates when things are different so it adapts and essentially it rewards you for your diligence.  Sort of like a double negative makes a positive.  Don’t give your body sugar all the time, it’s not used to that.  It’s new to your body.  Here what’s going to happen;  assuming you are training right and your muscle building workout routine is up to scratch and you time your meals correctly, all that sugar you are feeding it is going to be pummeled in to your muscles.  If you’re

• Stop eating all day long.  You don’t need to snack every couple of hours.
• Eat enough at your main meals
• Time your meals properly.  THIS is the answer.  .

 (A Muscle Building Must)

Stay Healthy

A. B.

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