By Deborah Singer


Many people would think it ironic to undergo fasting when looking to gain muscles. This is because it is common knowledge that to increase muscles, an individual has to eat a lot of calories and do a lot of heavyweight lifting daily. So how is fasting for muscle gain even possible? This article discuses this issue to give a perspective on how this can be possible.

Before starting on the issue, it is good that people understand how muscles are built. Muscle build up depends greatly on progressive heavy lifting, diet and recovery. An individual ought to lift the heavy weights daily and ensure to add weights the bar more often. But care must be taken not to tear the muscles thus one should put weights that he can lift.

As for nutrition of such persons, there foods include vitamins, carbohydrates proteins, fats and also minerals. These foods are burnt down during the heavy lifting to build the muscles. At recovery time, persons ensure to get sufficient amounts of sleep and also avoid stressful situations at all times as this might lead to weight loss. Adhering to this routine will lead to an individual building the muscles he wants.

Fasting is a process where one denies himself food out of free will. This act has been associated with a lot of benefits in the body including getting rid of toxins. Persons can fast during the process of muscle gain whereby an individual only consumes food only when he is training, then during the resting or recovery period, one fasts.

Many people decide to laze around during the recovery period, sleeping and eating a lot of junk during such time. But one can take the rest and fast at the same time. This way, not only will a person be cleansing his body off the toxins, but also burn down the fats. After recovery, the individual will then get back to his eating and exercise routine.

For people prone to accumulating excess fat when trying to put on muscles, this procedure will be particularly beneficial to them. Because they will not be eating, the fats stored in their bodies will be now used as an energy source when burned down. This way, when they will get back to the eating and heavy lifting routine, their bodies will be more likely to use the food consumed as an energy source to build muscles rather than store it as fat.

There is another routine where an individual might decide to set a time daily for fasting rather than doing it during the recovery time. Therefore in a day, a person might do 16 hours of without food and 8 hour re feed and working out time. These hours of course vary depending on what an individual manage a day as some people might not be able to go without food for 16 hours.

This procedure is more like eat stop eat and is commonly known by people as intermittent fasting. People are now able to get muscles and burn fat at the same time. Individuals thinking of starting out in this procedure should however research more about it and consult with a trainer to find out a plan that works for them.




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