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Originally Posted by BustoRhymes
A while back I asked in the LC thread about calorie splits a la IF recommendations and the consensus was lelz. Now I see you and loco are doing splits. Is there a benefit to doing splits over taking your weekly average and splitting it evenly between days?
I do it for a few reasons.
Compliance - I am training 3x a week right now. I get 2600 on those days. 1900 in the other days. That's a weak cut, but on a more aggressive cut I would go to 1700. Sorry can't do many 1700 calorie days in a row.
Protein synthesis and hunger - after working out I am considerably hungrier. Protein synthesis is elevated for 24 hours postworkout. This is not facking random here. Your body needs more calories after training. I am on at least maintenance or surplus 100% of the time for 24 hours postworkout. I will also note that I am going in fasted the last month. I don't notice difference in workouts fasted or nonfasted. But obviously postworkout nutrition is really important if you are going in fasted so I want those 24hours to have 3dimes of cals.
Fat loss -
This is probably fake here. But fasting may lead to knocking out some stubborn bodyfat. Something I read about chemicals in your body (either Martin or Lyle but Alan does not like).
Anyways that all adds up to why I do it. I don't go extreme like Martin, but I have done a light variation of it most of my training life. It's mainly a compliance thing, but it works for one reason alone. If I go three days without working out my body is trained to consume less, less, and less. If I workout it gets an explosion of goodies as a reward.
For somebody like fakebusto who has no problems eating 1600 a day for three consecutive months, then IFing is not as strong. Now you have to believe that fasting and nutrient timing is a big rock. And most likely, it definitely is not.