hey derka, been keeping an eye on this thread, welcome mate.
Im curious what is your opinion on HIIT training,
say slotting it into similair timeslots as you do, instead of your flat 45min walk, i noticed you mention as for bodybuilding you wouldnt advise any faster than a certain pace.
Ive been doing HIIT 3x per week say mon,wed,fri, (consisting of either, 5 min walk warmup, 10x 10 sec sprints with 50 sec walk in between each set, 5 min cooldown/ also switch to around 50 burpees in groups of 10 with 40 sec break in between, 5 min walk warmup + cooldown)
from what ive read just to basically keep the metabolism up.
but is this going to really hinder my gains longterm,
im running around 3000cals a day 92kg 14% bf.
Have been for some time, had gains but ive plateaued out now,
I really only want to get bf down to say 12% max and gain as much as possible, dream to reach 100, but cant see it happening naturally. Been training around 5 years, 3+ years seriously lift 5 day p/w.
what would you advise?
just trying to pick your brain
appreciate any advice mate.
This is what i have never understood fadi, You have an empty stomach after fasting and cortisol is at top of the range.. Some people are actually way over range through the morning. Yet this is when they exercise hoping to loose fat and retain muscle?
Testosterone does reduce cortisol, so i can understand body builders on juice having alot lower cortisol levels and alot high anabolic levels of tetsosterone so this not being a problem for them..
But for the normal person this spells disaster... Not to mention the other negative effects of caffeine.
Your points are all valid n00bs. I've said it before and may be it's about time I say it again; steroid bodybuilding and natural bodybuilding are two different and distinct sports. All the nutrition advice one gives might as well fly right out the window if that advice is based on a steroid taking bodybuilder when the receiver is a natural one.
To make matters worse, I only reserved myself to mentioning the catabolic hormone cortisol and left out its brother glucagon out for now, which as you know is at its highest concentration when we are hungry (early in the morning again). Insulin takes care of both in one hit.
My advice would be to take in a small amount of juice in the morning without any fear that it (with all its fructose content) would turn to fat because it won't...not when your liver is low on it in the early hours of the morning. After all, it's the fat that you burn after exercising that I'd be interested in and not fat burned during exercise. There's more to it but I'll leave it here for now.
Fadi.
Do you actually know what Glucogon does Fadi? "Glucagon mobilizes the release of stored body fat from the adipose tissue directly into the bloodstream, allowing your muscles to burn fat instead of glucose for energy."
Glucogen is a good thing for fat loss. Also insulin DOES NOT want to be present in the bloodstream having juice prior to the cardio in the morning is a big BIG NO NO!
"Glucagon activates hepatic gluconeogenesis. Gluconeogenesis is the pathway by which non-hexose substrates such as amino acids are converted to glucose. As such, it provides another source of glucose for blood. Glucagon also appears to have a minor effect of enhancing lipolysis of triglyceride in adipose tissue, which could be viewed as an addition means of conserving blood glucose by providing fatty acid fuel to most cells. "
"Glucagon activates hepatic gluconeogenesis. Gluconeogenesis is the pathway by which non-hexose substrates such as amino acids are converted to glucose. As such, it provides another source of glucose for blood. Glucagon also appears to have a minor effect of enhancing lipolysis of triglyceride in adipose tissue, which could be viewed as an addition means of conserving blood glucose by providing fatty acid fuel to most cells. "
Minor usually means exactly that minor... So you are covnerting amino acids to glucose. Since you havenot eaten anything where are these amino acids coming from.. You have to look at the bigger picture here.. All this for minor lipolysis..
It would make more sense to eat a cleaner diet and lift heavier shit to increase basic metabolic funciton in order to loose body fat...
Its like saying valium calms me down and reduces anxiety so im going to have it everyday with out looking at the effects that would have on you, you always need to look at the bigger picture and not single details..
Yes.
Fadi.
i hope the big picture notes something about the fact that the coffe dehydrates the system further... and after fasting for so long its probably not the best thing to be drinking...
Just stating glycogen is a good thing that's all mate.
A little bit of caffeine in the morning is not going to hurt anybody and is going to accelerate fat loss, stating that shows a lack of experience in regards to a fat loss diet
A little bit of caffeine in the morning is not going to hurt anybody and is going to accelerate fat loss, stating that shows a lack of experience in regards to a fat loss diet
A little bit of caffeine in the morning is not going to hurt anybody and is going to accelerate fat loss, stating that shows a lack of experience in regards to a fat loss diet
I hope you've got your spelling right Damien. Are you sure of the above because here I agree with you, however if you decide to change your spelling form glycogen to glucagon, then I would have to politely disagree Sir.
Fadi.
1. It’s a catch 22 here Damien; if a little bit of caffeine in the morning is not going to hurt anybody, then that little bit of caffeine is not going to do much in the way of fat loss either.
2. Jman has displayed enough experience to know the difference between a fat loss diet and a bodybuilding cutting diet, which not even bodybuilders look forward to; why? Because it's not a sustainable way of eating and as Gaucheharbor summed it up in his previous post, this way of eating is very short term and it would certainly be misleading if you or any other bodybuilder began to promote it as anything but a short term fat loss diet that is only designed to serve a particular purpose and nothing more.
Health? Well, that's another issue altogether and I thank God it's only a short term diet otherwise we'll have nothing but disasters on our hands. So in a nutshell, a bodybuilding cutting diet is nothing to be proud of as far as health and well-being are concerned. To me it’s the flip side of extreme steroid abuse!
Fadi.
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