Fitness

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Re: fasted cardio

I don’t recommend it because you need to be sure not to overtrain without fueling

At a certain point it goes from being beneficial to being harmful, so if you don’t take the time to calculate the appropriate intensity and time you shouldn’t do it

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If it works for you I say all good!

Me personally I can’t stand any kind of exercise on an empty stomach, so I always eat a pretty big meal before

That’s why most important part is finding out what works for YOU

I train fasted - cardio, lifting, whatever. Black coffee and some water. Feel light and energetic - works for me!

Fair enough! Everyone’s different

I will be one hangry mf’er if I don’t eat before a workout lol I always perform the best fully fed

It’s always been fine to me, but it has never been more than a 20h fast I suppose. But I ran my longest distance ever fasting.
Always bring some high carb food with you in case of low energy, and water ;)
I actually want to puke if I eat in the 4-5 previous hours hahaha


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Idk like I said I don’t recommend it so can’t tell you best way to do it

how long should it take after eating?🙂

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Wouldn’t really call them dangers so much that it can just be highly sub optimal and possibly even become the limiting factor to your performance

Could potentially be dangerous but you’d really have to overdo it, like a very intense workout agyer 24h fast, etc

And also, what are the dangers? Low blood sugar? Other kinds of damage?

Since I don’t recommend it, I don’t know the best way to execute it

Would have to DYOR but basics are that you want to encourage thermogenesis (metabolism) without over burning carbs. Ie no intense exercise without eating and keeping Z2 to a sensible amt of time

I've been doing it pretty regularly, sometimes zone 2, sometimes much higher, for about an hour. What's the calculation and how do you do it?

For the average person, fasted cardio is totally fine...