Dr. Stacey Sims

Women's bodies don't respond well to fasted training.

What's fasted training?

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you know what the heck this is.

Like what was fasted training?

Fasted training means you're not having any food before you go do exercise.

If I don't have food to counter the fuel that the muscles are needing from a contraction, I need to find a way to supply that fuel.

So it goes into a little bit of a tizzy.

And one of the first things that starts to get broken down is your muscle mass.

Because muscle is a pretty active tissue and the hypothalamus is like, well, I don't know if I'm going to be able to supply the food that this muscle needs.

If I don't have any food coming in.

So it's a very small amount of food that a woman needs first thing in the morning to then go be successful in her training.

And it doesn't mean a full meal.

It could be the protein coffee.

It could be a couple of tablespoons of yogurt, half a banana.

It's not a lot, but it's enough to bring your blood sugar up and tell your brain, yeah, I've got this.