IKSC Weekly Links: June 26, 2020
Does cardio make you fat? No form of exercise is going to cause fat gain, but certain training methods will do almost nothing to burn it. Building lean body mass is the way to change the way your body burns fuel. You can’t do that in a constantly stressed state, which “chronic cardio” does to your body and nervous system.
Does Cardio Make You Fat?
I make frequent reference to Native American diets when talking nutrition. This is a great breakdown of what some of the plains tribes ate.
Native American Diet
I know this might seem like a broken record, but here’s an interesting article on vitamin D.
Great Vitamin D Article
You all know that I’ve been “intermittent fasting” since before that word existed. For the past several years I’ve drifted into that pattern of 16:8 (described in the article). Saturdays and Sundays, I find I mostly stick to one big meal per day and maybe a light snack at some point.
I don’t recommend you force yourself into one of these eating patterns unless it feels right to you. You have to kind of customize it. There is no prize for fasting the most, or going the most hours. Also, getting to the place where you burn fat instead of sugar for fuel is almost mandatory here. One thing that surely doesn’t work for people is grazing every few hours per day like a cow.
Ways to IF
Videos of the Week (There are several, here are the first 4): This fit right into our July Fitness and Nutrition Challenge