Doing a workout mid fast

[Bryce1995Clark]

My question is on fasting. I'm wanting to give it a try and see how it works for me. I'm coming from the normal 6 meals a day into doing fasting for roughly 14 hours. My plan right now is as follows...

Wake up - 6:00 am
Gym - 8:30 am
First meal - 12:30 pm
Second meal - 2:30 pm
Third meal - 5:30 pm
Forth meal - 9:30 pm
Bed - 11:00

I drink a shaker cup of water and a cup of coffee first thing in the morning. I take my pre workout and BCAA in the locker room. After the gym I drink a mini Gatorade for the sugar restores. I then drink a 0 calorie Monster Energy drink around 10:30. What do you guys think about this setup? Today is my first day of trying it so I haven't noticed any changes yet.

[Metalmank]

My question is on fasting. I'm wanting to give it a try and see how it works for me. I'm coming from the normal 6 meals a day into doing fasting for roughly 14 hours. My plan right now is as follows...

Wake up - 6:00 am
Gym - 8:30 am
First meal - 12:30 pm
Second meal - 2:30 pm
Third meal - 5:30 pm
Forth meal - 9:30 pm
Bed - 11:00

I drink a shaker cup of water and a cup of coffee first thing in the morning. I take my pre workout and BCAA in the locker room. After the gym I drink a mini Gatorade for the sugar restores. I then drink a 0 calorie Monster Energy drink around 10:30. What do you guys think about this setup? Today is my first day of trying it so I haven't noticed any changes yet.

Its fine. When I used to do IF on the 16/8 schedule I would workout on a empty stomach / fasted. Only thing I consumed was black coffee , PWO, and tons of water to rid the hunger. I usually prefer to workout on an empty stomach anyways.

But just listen to your body. Some people need food to workout.

[ironwill2008]

My question is on fasting. I'm wanting to give it a try and see how it works for me. I'm coming from the normal 6 meals a day into doing fasting for roughly 14 hours. My plan right now is as follows...

Wake up - 6:00 am
Gym - 8:30 am
First meal - 12:30 pm
Second meal - 2:30 pm
Third meal - 5:30 pm
Forth meal - 9:30 pm
Bed - 11:00

I drink a shaker cup of water and a cup of coffee first thing in the morning. I take my pre workout and BCAA in the locker room. After the gym I drink a mini Gatorade for the sugar restores. I then drink a 0 calorie Monster Energy drink around 10:30. What do you guys think about this setup? Today is my first day of trying it so I haven't noticed any changes yet.

You seem to be quite confused as to what constitutes proper bodybuilding nutrition. Six meals a day is not 'normal,' and neither is 'fasting.' And neither plan is required to build muscle or to lose body fat.



Why are you doing this?

[SuffolkPunch]

Protein intake close to the workout is associated with better protein synthesis response. You can get away with this as a novice but it becomes far more important as you become more experienced and the PS window gets shorter.

[Kneebola]

I agree with the two above posts.

If you want to maximize protein synthesis levels throughout the day, which I assume you do when you want to build muscle, why would you fast anyway? Besides amino acids, there's also a benefit to take in carbs around training.