The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Intermittent Fasting When Bulking?
Aired: 2019-09-01
Duration: 03:32


=== Bulking Wisdom (03:22) ===

[00:00:09]  Greetings, Laddingtons.
[00:00:12]  I am yet again checking in from the Forest of Enlightenment, and today I thought to respond to a question that came up.
[00:00:19]  Last time I talked about fasting and intermittent fasting, and since it's autumn, Helios has blessed Sweden with some good old summer here in late August.
[00:00:30]  So, shout out to you, Helios, my man.
[00:00:34]  But anyway, autumn is incoming, and a lot of guys will start bulking.
[00:00:40]  So, I thought to bestow some bulking wisdom upon you all.
[00:00:44]  Now, first and foremost, should you do intermittent fasting when you are bulking?
[00:00:49]  If you are a bit skinnier, if you're a bit younger, you want to bulk up, put on some size, then no, I would not recommend doing intermittent fasting because you want to space out your meals so that you can eat more.
[00:01:02]  The traditional bodybuilding style of eating, like six meals a day or so, it's a bit unnecessary in my view.
[00:01:09]  And also, some wisdom when it comes to listening to pro-bodybuilders, they are taking vast amounts of steroids.
[00:01:16]  So, if you listen to their advice and do like they do, sure, you can do it if you take the same sort of dark side supplements, so to speak.
[00:01:26]  But I recommend that you do not.
[00:01:29]  But, anyway, that being said, I do recommend that you eat breakfast if you are a so-called hard gainer or if you're bulking, etc.
[00:01:37]  Because you do at the end of the day want to hit a certain amount of calories.
[00:01:42]  For certain guys, it is hard to get to that level, so you're not doing yourself any favors by eating less, simply put.
[00:01:51]  And of course, in the reversal, if you're trying to lose weight, it's absolutely unnecessary to eat breakfast in my view because most people aren't hungry in the morning anyway.
[00:02:02]  So, yeah, intermittent fasting, it's not something I would recommend if you are training to get more massive, or if you are at perhaps an elite level and you train several times a day.
[00:02:16]  And if you train in the morning, it might be good to load up with some extra carbohydrates.
[00:02:20]  And again, as I've said before, the more you train, the more carbohydrates you should have in your diet.
[00:02:26]  The less you train, the less carbohydrates in your diet.
[00:02:29]  So, anyway, I still would though recommend that if you're a bulk bra, if you have been bulking for half a year or something, it can be a good idea for you to do a 24-hour fast for your mind.
[00:02:43]  So, not so much for your body, but for your mind, which in turn, as I always say, is connected to the body.
[00:02:48]  So, mind and body are one.
[00:02:50]  But anyway, you can do it every once in a while, and then it can be good for you to get your appetite up again.
[00:02:56]  Because if you have been bulking for half a year, chances are quite high that you don't really want to eat so much.
[00:03:04]  So, it can be a good idea.
[00:03:06]  So, basically, to conclude, for bulk bras, not intermittent fasting, but if you are bulking, you can do a 24-hour fast to reap the health benefits for the mind, so to speak.
[00:03:20]  So, that is the answer to that question.
[00:03:24]  I hope that brought some insights to you.
[00:03:27]  And who am I?
[00:03:29]  I'm Jack Legolas.