Study: Training fasted better for burning fat

[sockerheel]

Study finds that exercising while fasting burns more fat than exercising after eating carbs (and during). Also, fasting is not detrimental to building endurance.


www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3253005/?tool=pmcentrez

I always thought this was just an old wives' tale. Interesting.

[sockerheel]

Just found another study that says the opposite:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21411835

I guess the take-away here is to do what works for you.

[joenali]

Ok, I didn't even read the whine abstract, but problem number one is that they need to study women in these tests as well.