Tonight, I decided to put together a meal plan for myself, so as to get back in contest condition.
This is a very different pre-contest plan to what I have done before as it involves eating my 4 ‘meals’ in an 8 hour feeding window from 12:30pm to 8:30pm.
The Intermittent Fasting philosophy then involves not eating for 16 hours from 8:30pm till 12:30pm the next day.
The benefits of IF are amazing, some of these include:
1. Increased Growth Hormone production
2. Detoxification
3. Autophagy
4. Lower insulin
5. Increased fat burning
6. Better brain function
7. Improved heart health/lower blood pressure
8. Less inflammation
9. Increased longevity
10. Lower SHBG = more testosterone
My dietary intake will involve all 3 of the macronutrients. I may lower the ‘impact carbohydrate’ intake as I progress closer to my goal of very low body fat. If I do that, I may then increase the fat and/or protein content.
The need to perform low intensity cardiovascular exercise will be part of my regime, but hopefully just once per day. But that may change if my body gets stubborn!!
Weight training will be as per normal, HIT style, 3-4 sessions per week, so as to continue building muscle.
At 52 years of age it will be interesting to see just how this plan will go.
Time will tell…
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https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-health-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting#section9
Bodychisel by Craig. 