The Golden One - Intermittent Fasting When Bulking？

Intermittent fasting is not a good idea if you are bulking, but if you have been bulking for a while and want to bulk up, it can be a great idea to do a 24 hour fast for your mind!

00:00:00.000 Greetings, Laddingtons. I am yet again checking in from the Forest of Enlightenment and today I

00:00:16.000 thought to respond to a question that came up last time I talked about fasting and intermittent

00:00:22.280 fasting. And since it's autumn, Helios has blessed Sweden with some good old summer here in late

00:00:29.420 August. So shout out to you Helios, my man. But anyway, autumn is incoming and a lot of guys will

00:00:37.860 start bulking. So I thought to bestow some bulking wisdom upon you all. Now first and foremost,

00:00:45.720 should you do intermittent fasting when you are bulking? If you are a bit skinnier, if you're a

00:00:51.240 bit younger, you want to bulk up, put on some size, then no, I would not recommend doing intermittent

00:00:57.200 fasting. Because you want to space out your meals so that you can eat more. The traditional

00:01:03.220 bodybuilding style of eating, like six meals a day or so, it's a bit unnecessary in my view. And also

00:01:09.700 some wisdom when it comes to listening to pro bodybuilders. They are taking vast amounts of

00:01:15.440 steroids. So if you listen to their advice and do like they do, sure you can do it if you take the

00:01:21.780 same sort of dark side supplements, so to speak. But I recommend that you do not. But anyway, that

00:01:30.040 being said, I do recommend that you eat breakfast if you are a so-called hard gainer or if you're

00:01:36.380 bulking, etc. Because you do, at the end of the day, want to hit a certain amount of calories. For

00:01:42.920 certain guys, it is hard to get to that level. So you're not doing yourself any favors by eating

00:01:48.620 less, simply put. And of course, in the reversal, if you're trying to lose weight, it's absolutely

00:01:56.080 unnecessary to eat breakfast in my view, because most people aren't hungry in the morning anyway.

00:02:02.120 So yeah, intermittent fasting, it's not something I would recommend if you are training to get more

00:02:10.440 massive. Or if you are at perhaps an elite level and you train several times a day, and if you train in

00:02:16.780 the morning, it might be good to load up with some extra carbohydrates. And again, as I've said

00:02:21.840 before, the more you train, the more carbohydrates you should have in your diet. The less you train,

00:02:27.080 the less carbohydrates in your diet. So anyway, I still would, though, recommend that if you are bulk

00:02:34.020 brah, if you have been bulking for half a year or something, it can be a good idea for you to do a 24

00:02:40.940 hour fast for your mind. So not so much for your body, but for your mind, which in turn, as I always say,

00:02:47.400 is connected to the body. So mind and body are one. But anyway, you can do it every once in a while, and then

00:02:53.200 it can be good for you to get your appetite up again. Because if you have been bulking for half a year,

00:02:59.080 chances are quite high that you don't really want to eat so much. So it can be a good idea.

00:03:05.820 So basically, to conclude, for bulk brahs, not intermittent fasting, but if you are bulking,

00:03:13.900 you can do a 24-hour fast to reap the health benefits for the mind, so to speak. So that is

00:03:21.500 the answer to that question. I hope that brought some insights to you. And who am I? I'm Jacked

00:03:31.160 Legolas. XOXO. Boom.

The Golden One - September 01, 2019

Intermittent Fasting When Bulking？

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