How Does Intermittent Fasting Affect Your Workouts?
Dieting can become complicated, fast. Eat this, don’t eat that, only eat so much of this, and eat even less of that. When counting, tracking, and planning all start becoming too much, many turn to intermittent fasting as an alternative. It worked for Los Angeles Lakers superstar (and Men’s Health digital cover star) Luka Dončić this summer, too, as it was a key part of the overall training and nutrition plan. Doncic, who has occasionally had his conditioning called into question during his NBA career, seems primed for a big season this fall for the Lakers.
While intermittent fasting may help simplify your meal-prep routine, you might find that the practice complicates your workout schedule. The premise of the intermittent fasting diet is simple: only eat for a small amount of time during the day, and fast the rest. There are several different kinds of intermittent fasting schedules, but the most popular one requires you to fast for 16 hours, then fit your meals into the next eight. Whatever food you eat during that period is up to you, so long as you stick within your eating window (though, filling up those few hours with several cheeseburgers and buckets of fries probably won’t get you very far in the weight loss department).
Excerpted from Men’s Health
