 I need you right now, yeah I need you right now, so don't let me, don't let me What is up everyone? Welcome to my video. If you've clicked on this one you're probably thinking about trying out intermittent fasting or either doing intermittent fasting or you're just interested in it and you know it's clearly well to be honest with you if I hadn't made this video probably three years ago it would have gone a lot better but you know behind the ball game a little bit but I do use intermittent fasting myself. I have used it probably for the best part of the last two years especially when I'm trying to drop body weight or drop body fat and there's certain you know there's certain things that you need to keep consistent with it to to be successful. There's also certain risks that you run using intermittent fasting as far as you know binging at the end of the night and things like that so I'm just gonna quickly run through you guys my experience how I use it and you know you can make up your mind from there. So intermittent fasting I first heard of basically when you know twin muscle workout TMW first came out probably four years ago and they used intermittent fasting to to cut down and get shredded for the first time in their lives I think so I saw that and I at that stage I didn't even realize you know the notion of calories in versus calories out so I mean at the end of the day behind intermittent fasting and getting results with intermittent fasting you need to be in a caloric deficit obviously so myself once I start eating I find it I find it extremely hard to stop especially if it's something nice so the way I use intermittent fasting is I'll wake up in the morning usually I'll wake up you know no more than an hour before work so I don't have too much time to think about things I'll get a caffeinated drink of my choice so that's either you know a fat burner it might be a coffee something like that usually it's a coffee or amino energy is my other top supplement that I really enjoy which is by optional nutrition so anything with caffeine in it basically what that will do is blunt my appetite and give me the energy I need to get through the first part of the day without consuming any food so I'll easily you know go five six hours even seven hours in the morning without consuming any food and people are scared I don't know what you're scared of like are you afraid that you're not gonna have the brain power to function on no food well you know coming from me coming from personal experience obviously not gonna be the same for everyone but I feel sharp man I feel really sharp in the mornings if I go and smash myself with a lot of carbs first thing in the morning not only do I feel sluggish but I also feel even more hungry two or three hours later so if I don't have anything that hunger goes and it stays away and you know if I get up at seven eight o'clock in the morning come two or three o'clock I am pretty fucking hungry and what I usually do is depending on when I'm actually working out that day let's say I'm finishing work at five I'm working out at six I'll start eating around about the two or three o'clock mark so that I can have one or two good meals before I go and train so the worst thing you want to do that like the worst I find myself doing this sometimes and I'm like why the fuck did I do that is going through the whole well going through those first six or seven hours of the day not eating having a workout planned you know later on in the day and not getting the nutrition in before you work out that you need for that workout so the danger you run with intermittent fasting is your performance can drop if you don't structure your intake of calories around the time you train so regardless you know regardless of what day it is I'll most probably spend the first five or six hours of the day without eating I'll have one or two meals before I train and then I'll have the majority of my calories after I train or at night when you know when you do go out for dinner you do go over to a friend's place you do have dessert and things like that so what it allows me to do is still is function really well in the first part of the day still structure my nutrition around my workout but most importantly it allows me to eat the majority of my calories at night and that's when that's when I enjoy eating you know I if I go to bed satisfied it's well it's a lot it's a lot better than going to bed hungry right so if I if I space my meals out all throughout the day stopped eating it you know seven eight seven or eight o'clock at night I'd be going to bed you know relatively hungry and that is a feeling I can't deal with I just can't and when I'm cussing I realize that there are gonna be times when you have to go to bed hungry so what I do I flip it around and I go hungry first thing in the morning and go to bed satisfied because I've eaten most of my calories late at night so I know I've been rambling but that's that's how I do it yeah the you know there have been far fetched claims thrown around that I've heard of people saying that you know if you fast for 24 hours your human growth hormone production can be boosted by you know a thousand percent or something like that hey I've gone 24 hours faster it's too long it really is you know I've done a couple of videos on 24 hour fasts actually and you know if you could do a consistent 24 hour fast every two days man you'd be you'd be getting shredded real fast but that was way way too long for me especially if you're trying to include a workout of sorts on a day where you don't eat anything at all man it's it's just counterproductive so you know the main goal in bodybuilding guys is to first build the muscle and put on the body fat and then you know the art of bodybuilding is to cut down cut the fat and maintain the muscle right so you got to get as lean as possible with the most amount of muscle as possible now that's the art of bodybuilding and if you can use intermittent fasting to your advantage to help you do that well by all means I say go for it you know right now it's 12 o'clock it's midday I got up at 8 all I've had is probably a total of about two to 250 milligrams caffeine with a coffee and then with a amino drink and you know I'm feeling fine I'm feeling I'm not hungry at all but I mean in saying that I ate right up until I went to bed last night obviously still staying under my my certain amount of calories per day that I want to stay under but at the end of the day I wake up and I'm not hungry and I can push through so that's how I use it it's worked well for me at the end of the day guys you can't let yourself binge and then at night you know if you go through the first part of the day till 2 o'clock don't start eating a shitload just have a couple of small meals you know especially before you train you don't need heaps so I find that if I take in you know 50 grams of carbs and 50 grams of protein once or twice before I go and train I feel like that's enough for me for you you know it might be different I'm not sure depending on what your current calories what your current macro limits are right now I'm probably aiming for around about 2,500 calories I am cutting that is a good amount for me to cut on I'm still satisfied especially when I have most my meals at the end of the day so whatever calorie amount you're on whether it be 2000 fucking 3000 whatever clearly you still have to stick to that so use you know use a 24-hour period to calculate your your total calories and macros don't use you know two-hour periods or six-hour periods because you're going you know if if you fast till to eat till 10 that's that's 8 hours eating that's a 16 hour fast every single day so yeah even and you know not even in 24 hour blocks do it in 48 hour blocks so let's say you got 2,500 calories a day that means you've got 5,000 calories that you can consume in every 48 hours so maybe that'll make it easier I mean I've heard of people do it weekly you know maybe one day they'll smash the calories they'll go like for you know 4,000 5,000 when they're only meant to be having 2,500 but then they'll take it back over the next six days and at the end of the week that's still lost weight so it's up to you how you do it that's just a little bit of information from me to you I hope it's made sense I haven't read them too much I'll probably cut a little bit of it out so anyways subscribe for more give us a like that it means more than you know and I'll definitely be doing more videos like that's in the future so for now have a great day train hard make some gains and I'll see you in the next one peace