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Seen what?
I can post links to fat adaption and mitochondrial biogenesis.
Is that what you mean?
Fat loss by changing nothing only introducing fasted exercise, is a RCCT I've yet to see
Logic is something like:
1) A staple part of training for those doing sportives or lower level racing is 2 hrs of Z2 training.
2) Most people train that anyway during the day or evening.
3) By moving this training to early morning in a fasted state you
A) Get any benefits that you would in the evening.
See additional weight reduction (mine dropped considerably after a few weeks having been the same summertime for a few years) which means better climbing once you're not wasting muscle
C) Use "dead" time for training though this is not everybodys cuppa
D) Become more efficient in using fat in longer events and push that bonk further way0 -
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harringtonp wrote: »Logic is something like:
1) A staple part of training for those doing sportives or lower level racing is 2 hrs of Z2 training.
2) Most people train that anyway during the day or evening.
3) By moving this training to early morning in a fasted state you
A) Get any benefits that you would in the evening. See additional weight reduction (mine dropped considerably after a few weeks having been the same summertime for a few years) which means better climbing once you're not wasting muscle
C) Use "dead" time for training though this is not everybodys cuppa
D) Become more efficient in using fat in longer events and push that bonk further way
Best of luck if you feel it works for you, my main point is that pro cyclists do it for two reasons (as listed earlier); they don't include weight loss.
This study
https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-014-0054-7
concluded
"To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to investigate body composition changes associated with aerobic exercise performed in the fasted versus fed state while subjects maintained a caloric deficit. It has been hypothesized that exercising when fasted forces the body to rely on using fat as a substrate rather than carbohydrate, thereby reducing body fat to a greater extent than performance of post-prandial exercise. Our results refute the veracity of this hypothesis. Although both groups lost a significant amount of weight and fat mass, no differences were seen between conditions in any outcome measure regardless of pre-exercise feeding status."
along with a discussion of other somewhat similar studies.
The reason pro cyclists do it is probaly on the basis of this and similar studies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4886170/
"CHO restriction before and during exercise induces work‐efficient cell signaling related to mitochondrial biogenesis"
The only thing in your list that could follow from aqua blue is that fat adaptation
is a benefit of fasted training. I agree with you on that but it is by far a secondary benefit for pro riders. It is the main reason I did/do it.
There is no study I'm aware of which refutes the first study above. While it worked for you, where N=1 the control of variables that effect an outcome can be little tricky to observe and record.
For someone trying to lose weight there is a load of things further down the tree with which people have some success
EDIT: Found this podcast which should work
https://sigmanutrition.com/episode57/0
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