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Originally Posted by stevie667
At the moment, i'm doing a half hour of cycling every morning when i get up on an empty stomach for fat loss purposes. It damn well works, but combined with the calorie reduced diet, and my general lack of lean edible meats, it does make me very hungry.
When i'm trying to gain weight, i do cardio 2-4 days a week, depending on how lazy i'm feeling.
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Two curiousities:
1. Wouldn't you naturally be more hungry working out more? Unless you haven't trainined your body to process fat for fuel.
2. I don't see how you gain weight by doing cardio.
Sorry, a third: your body needs fuel to operate, just not too much or the wrong kind. Seems unusual to excercise with no fuel of any kind.
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Firstly, my mistake with wording, i'm always hungry, cardio makes me hungry-er.
Secondly, also my mistake with wording, i meant to say that i only do cardio 2-4 days a week to keep lean whilst eating loads and working out, the cardio itself doesn't make me gain weight. It does make me hungry though, so refer to point one
Thirdly, cardio on an empty stomach does make you lose fat, along with some muscle if your not careful. It's all to do with insulin and going from a sedentary to active state rather quickly, and the metabolic boost the rest of the day. I'll see if i can find the exact reason today.
For some it doesn't work, for me it does.
My wording was slightly off in most of those, so i see how it could be slightly confusing at times.