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Cutting Carbs After PM HIIT Workouts Will Make You Cross the Finish Line Before Anyone Else: 3% Faster Time Trial, 9% More Power and Twice as Much Fat Mass Lost in 7 Days

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Don't be a fool. Simply eating no carbs in the PM is not going to yield the same results. It's all about timing it correctly with your workouts... workouts? Yes, bad  news: you got to get off the couch, bro; workout daily: one light, one HIIT day. I've written about the adaptational response to "training low", i.e. doing endurance training on a low carbohydrate diet previously. In January, this year, for example, I have reported the results of a study from the French National Institute of Sport  that showed that strategically cutting carbs in the PM and thus "sleeping low" will trigger game-changing Performance gains in only 3 weeks ( read the article ). Now, the scientists go one better: In their latest study, Laurie-Anne Marquet and colleagues investigated the effect on an even shorter timescale - a timescale that is short enough to consider "sleeping low" as a possible  pre-competition strategy... well, assuming that it would work its ...

Fasted Cardio Before Breakfast Increases 24h Fat Oxidation by Almost 50% over Doing AM+PM Workouts, But This Does Not Necessarily Mean That You Will Lose 50% More Fat

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Can fasted cardio switch on your "fat burning mode. And, more importantly, will it help you lose body fat faster? Before you get overtly excited about this being the study to finally solve the "fasted cardio" conundrum (i.e. answer the question "Will fasted cardio promote fat loss?"), I want to warn you. To answer this question, we will have to wait for Brad Schoenfeld's latest study on the chronic effects of fasted cardio to be released. The study at hand, which was conducted by researchers from the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences at the University of Tsukuba can only inform us about the acute (24h) metabolic effects of cardio at different timepoints and with different amounts of food in the tummy (Iwayama. 2014). High intensity interval training aka HIIT is more than just an alternative for steady state. Never Train To Burn Calories! Tabata = 14.2kcal /min ≠ Fat Loss 30s Intervals + 2:1 Work/Rec. Making HIIT a Hit Pa...
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