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Travel Fast

No, not as in quickly.  I'm referring to fasting while traveling.  I picked this idea up off of Brad Pilon's blog and decided to give it a try this weekend.  I just got back from a course in Toronto with Charles Poliquin.  It was a Biosignature intensive and was extremely interesting.  It is predicated on the idea that where on your body you store fat is correlated with your hormonal profile.  By taking and comparing different skinfold sites we can then draw conclusions about which hormonal triggers need to be manipulated in order to maximize training gains and health.

At any rate, during my travel days (both going and returning) I decided to fast.  It turned out quite well.  It allowed me to avoid the overpriced airport food and at the same time not worry about dragging food around with me or trying to find healthy fare while on the move.  It also mitigated any feelings of guilt I might have been tempted to have about not eating as well as I usually do while on the road.  Finally, because travel days are generally lots of hustle and bustle, the fast goes by very quickly.

Brad Pilon Interview - Eat Stop Eat and Intermittent Fasting

As many of you may already know, I have been experimenting with Intermittent Fasting for the last couple of months now.  Although controversy may continue to swirl around IF, as it does around any potentially paradigm-shifting idea in the area of nutrition or fitness, it is becoming increasingly clear that significant benefit can be gained through the addition of IF to a holistic wellness plan.

In the coming weeks, I will be pointing to various studies and fellow bloggers who are busy unearthing the evidence regarding the health benefits of IF.  But today I am very pleased to offer you an interview with author Brad Pilon, who penned the enormously popular Eat Stop Eat.

Brad’s work is what got me interested in IF in the first place, and I am very pleased that he agreed to share his time and knowledge in this 40 minute interview.  I really enjoyed our conversation and I believe that anyone can benefit from Brad’s insight, regardless of whether you are tempted to give fasting a try.

So I urge you to take a listen.  It is absolutely FREE.  But it is available only to subscribers of my Momentum Training News.  The sign-up process is easy, and you’ll have instant access to my interview with Brad as well as a host of other free audio interviews and my Clubbells 101 ebook.

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PS I've since posted this casual conversation about Intermittent Fasting with Brad Pilon.

Insights into Intermittent Fasting

Time flies, but I've been experimenting with Intermittent Fasting now for at least a couple of months straight.  I started out with once a week, and now I'm pretty regular on Mondays and Fridays every week, sometimes with an extra fast thrown in strategically.

I'm certainly no expert yet, but I do come up with some insights from time to time that I will share here in the blog for anyone who is interested.  And here are the first two...

• Don't drink too much coffee at the end of a fast.  It's probably due to the elevated levels of epinephrine and norepinephrine near the end of a fast, but if I drink too much coffee near the end of a fast I get extremely jittery and ridiculously hungry.
• Go breakfast to breakfast.  This will undoubtedly be different for everyone, but I find my easiest fasts are from breakfast to breakfast.  So I will eat breakfast one day and then nothing until breakfast the next (à la ESE).  I find that his way I have all the energy and concentration I need during the fasting day, then I continue fasting while I am asleep and wake up to a nice breakfast the next morning.  Easy breezy.

I'll keep filling you in as I go.

Cheers,
Adam