Fat intake and fasted cardio

Remmy

I'm going to put in some low impact steady state cardio on my off days in the morning.Is there any truth to that thing where if you consume a healthy fat when you wake up before your workout like olive oil or some peanut butter that it will 'prime' your body to draw into fat reserves first instead of muscle or glycogen?


If so are there any articles or medical journals online about it that prove and explain how and why it works?

Thanks in advance guys.

El_Dangeroso

Remmy wrote: »

I'm going to put in some low impact steady state cardio on my off days in the morning.Is there any truth to that thing where if you consume a healthy fat when you wake up before your workout like olive oil or some peanut butter that it will 'prime' your body to draw into fat reserves first instead of muscle or glycogen?


If so are there any articles or medical journals online about it that prove and explain how and why it works?

Thanks in advance guys.

Nope, I'm pretty sure once the fat is burned normal metabolic service will resume.

EileenG

The only fat that this might work for is medium chain triglycerides, like coconut oil, which tend to behave like a carbohydrate in the body. But it seems pointless, since the aim of your fasted cardio is to burn calories, eating extra calories first means that all your cardio is going to burn those cals rather than to reduce your hips.

The idea of fasted cardio is that since glycogen reverses are low after a night sleeping, you will start to burn fat quicker. But this means nothing if you are not in a calorie deficit.

You said "Low impact". Did you mean "Low intensity", as in the "fat burning zone"? If so, you are wasting your time. The famous fat burning zone is a myth, based on a mathematical fallacy. True, at low intensity, you burn a higher proportion of calories as fat. But you burn very few calories. At higher intensity, you burn more calories overall, including more fat calories. So pick the workout that you can do with greatest intensity, and you'll burn calories.

Remmy

EileenG wrote: »

The only fat that this might work for is medium chain triglycerides, like coconut oil, which tend to behave like a carbohydrate in the body. But it seems pointless, since the aim of your fasted cardio is to burn calories, eating extra calories first means that all your cardio is going to burn those cals rather than to reduce your hips.

The idea of fasted cardio is that since glycogen reverses are low after a night sleeping, you will start to burn fat quicker. But this means nothing if you are not in a calorie deficit.

You said "Low impact". Did you mean "Low intensity", as in the "fat burning zone"? If so, you are wasting your time. The famous fat burning zone is a myth, based on a mathematical fallacy. True, at low intensity, you burn a higher proportion of calories as fat. But you burn very few calories. At higher intensity, you burn more calories overall, including more fat calories. So pick the workout that you can do with greatest intensity, and you'll burn calories.

Hi good post thanks.I was a bit sketchy on the whole gylcogen thing and how it impacted things .:D

Oh and by low impact I meant steady state cardio like fast walking on a treadmill or crosstrainer that kinda thing for 15-30 minutes.Im doing it on my non-lifting days so I dont want to be doing something too taxing that will bite into my recovery.