Category Diet
How to Fast
How do you go about fasting? Simple, don’t eat. I know it sounds silly, but it really is that easy. Don’t eat. Ok, so you need to not eat for a reasonable period of time: not eating for an hour between dinner and dessert doesn’t really count as a fast. You can do it the […]
Intermittent Fasting Increases Testosterone?
Just re-tweeted a tweet (is that how you say it?) by Brad Pilon where he mentions a study suggesting that short fasts increase testosterone. If true, this is good news for all us men – especially those of us approaching an age where testosterone production naturally begins to decrease. I have yet to actually see […]
Intermittent Fasting and Productivity
After breakfast on Friday (post workout meal) I started a 24 hour fast. I was planning on breaking the fast at 10am on Saturday, but didn’t feel hungry or interested in eating at all. On the contrary, I wrote blog posts and went running. I felt energised and productive. Eventually I did break the fast, […]
Fasting and Lifting Weights: Some Initial Thoughts
As I mentioned in the previous post, fasting initially wasn’t an option for me, having spent decades thinking that I have to eat a lot all the time to make progress in the gym. Now I’m not so sure. Yes, you have to eat a lot, but I doubt you have to do it all […]
Motivation: How to get the Running Done
Back from a 5k run done in a fasted state – and we’re talking a 24-hour fast here. Still haven’t broken the fast, by the way. It went well. By no means an all-time personal best (I haven’t done any consistent running for years, so I am very slow at the moment), but I managed […]
Lifegains, Leangains and How I Fast
Yes, I realise how much Lifegains – the name of my blog and my project – sounds like Leangains: Martin Berkhan’s protocol for intermittent fasting. It must have been in the back of my head as I thought up Lifegains, but it doesn’t matter. It’s a good name and I’ll stick with it. I first […]
More on Intermittent Fasting
Coming towards the end of another 24-hour fast, Brad Pilon Eat Stop Eat-style. And it’s striking how little I feel like eating. Not at all, in fact. And to top it off I’m even going on a 5k run before I eat, and I feel fine with that. Whereas before I used to obsess about […]
Documentary on Intermittent Fasting
This is probably the laziest post ever. A while back the BBC did an interesting documentary on fasting, and I thought I’d comment on it, but found that Brad Pilon, who knows infinitely more about intermittent fasting than I do (in fact I wouldn’t know what it was if it weren’t for him and Martin […]
Motivation: Get a New Mirror
Here’s a quick and easy motivational tip: get a new mirror. I believe the mirror is one of the best ways to track progress, be it in building your physique or losing body fat. Calipers and tape measures and scales are all good, but at the end of the day you need to be happy […]
A Bit More about Eating
So I wrote a little more about training yesterday. Time for a little more about eating. Again like so many others, I was pretty clueless about the importance of food when I first started out in the gym. In my early days, the best – or perhaps the most exciting – source of information was […]
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