Eat Every 3 Hours Or Intermittent Fasting
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Eat every 3 Hours or Intermittent Fasting. Which one is right?
A. This has caused much debate within the nutrition world.
Some say you should eat small meals every 3 hours [6 a day]. Others say restrict your calories to a small window of e.g.. 12-8pm [intermittent fasting]. Well let’s examine this a bit further.
B. Eat Every 3 Hours??
The idea behind this is that regular eating reduces your insulin spikes and keeps your body active throughout the day. Since energy is emitted when you eat, eating regularly was thought to optimise and increase your metabolic rate.
In addition to this, you can only absorb so much protein during a meal, so regular re-feeds was thought to optimise protein [or amino acid] consumption by the muscles by the end of the day.
C. Intermittent Fasting? …show more content…
Of course, as I’ve already stated earlier on in this book, there’s a lot more to it than that. However, this again dismisses the idea that you have to eat every 3 hours to maintain your metabolic rate. E. Convenience
• The bottom line is as long as you are monitoring your calories and macronutrients going in and going out, you should be fine. If you want to eat more to gain muscle, it’s easier to do so by eating more meals, and vice versa for fat loss.
2. What’s The Deal with Caffeine? Is it good or bad?
A. Caffeine is a stimulant that has excellent qualities when it comes to a pre-workout. It helps maximise your performance during a training session as well as delaying/preventing fatigue and keeping you alert.
B. The downside is that it is liked to raising your cortisol levels.
Cortisol harms your muscle growth and fat loss goals and is linked to stress. However, this rise in cortisol tends to be more the case if you are not active.
C. Overall, caffeine is a good thing to take before an explosive gym session. I tend to have some coffee/green tea with some creatine before I workout…especially on my strength training
1. Eat every 3 Hours or Intermittent Fasting. Which one is right?
A. This has caused much debate within the nutrition world.
Some say you should eat small meals every 3 hours [6 a day]. Others say restrict your calories to a small window of e.g.. 12-8pm [intermittent fasting]. Well let’s examine this a bit further.
B. Eat Every 3 Hours??
The idea behind this is that regular eating reduces your insulin spikes and keeps your body active throughout the day. Since energy is emitted when you eat, eating regularly was thought to optimise and increase your metabolic rate.
In addition to this, you can only absorb so much protein during a meal, so regular re-feeds was thought to optimise protein [or amino acid] consumption by the muscles by the end of the day.
C. Intermittent Fasting? …show more content…
Of course, as I’ve already stated earlier on in this book, there’s a lot more to it than that. However, this again dismisses the idea that you have to eat every 3 hours to maintain your metabolic rate. E. Convenience
• The bottom line is as long as you are monitoring your calories and macronutrients going in and going out, you should be fine. If you want to eat more to gain muscle, it’s easier to do so by eating more meals, and vice versa for fat loss.
2. What’s The Deal with Caffeine? Is it good or bad?
A. Caffeine is a stimulant that has excellent qualities when it comes to a pre-workout. It helps maximise your performance during a training session as well as delaying/preventing fatigue and keeping you alert.
B. The downside is that it is liked to raising your cortisol levels.
Cortisol harms your muscle growth and fat loss goals and is linked to stress. However, this rise in cortisol tends to be more the case if you are not active.
C. Overall, caffeine is a good thing to take before an explosive gym session. I tend to have some coffee/green tea with some creatine before I workout…especially on my strength training