It’s a dreaded word we all seem to despise; Cardio. That being the case we all want to make every minute on that treadmill or elliptical machine worth it. No one wants to feel like they are wasting time walking their way to nowhere, and if we can make one minute count as two minutes we will. Heck why wouldn’t you?
If you have been around bodybuilding for some time you have heard the debate over whether fasted cardio is more productive then cardio in a fed state. According to many fasted state cardio will burn a higher percentage of body fat. Some studies suggest that training during this time can burn up to 20% more fat. The people on the other side of the argument will say that fasted cardio is not any more beneficial than fed cardio or fasted cardio can be catabolic. They will also say that the benefit of this 20% is negated by the catabolism. The argument for fasted cardio explains that training in a fasted state will use body fat as preferred fuel during training. The reason is that in the morning our bodies will hold onto muscle glycogen and when this fuel is not available then we will shift to body fat for fuel. The argument on the other side of this benefit is that the body will also break down amino acids for fuel as well. The fix to this is to add an amino acid supplement during this time. This will preserve muscle tissue while you still enjoy the benefits of burning additional fat.
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