 all right guys fucking hell what is going on just got home from work what a day what a day indeed feels so good just to sit down with no client at me all day but with that being said welcome to another episode of making gains and today I've made no gains in fact I've eaten nothing for the past 24 hours and I wouldn't say it was on purpose I wouldn't say it was planned it's something I've done before I am you know using intermittent fasting at the moment to basically stop myself from consuming too many calories earlier in the day so then I have more to consume at night when you know I feel like I want to eat more I don't really need to eat in the mornings I feel like you know especially now that I'm cutting it's not a priority for me the food that I've eaten up to going to sleep tonight before is definitely gonna you know fuel me for the first few hours anyway and I feel good without eating eating is a chore for me in the morning you know especially after doing it for so many months with bulking first thing in the morning I had to do was make a shake and get it down and so it's nice actually not to have to worry about that but today I pushed it real far I pushed it to 24 hours so last night I stopped eating at 7 o'clock at night usually I would have another meal or probably two before I go to sleep but last night I didn't I ended up falling asleep for whatever reason and went to work today at 12 hour shift 7 till 7 so the time right now is 7 30 at night and it's been it's been 24 hours since I've consumed one piece of food now if I said it was easy I'd be lying I feel depleted as hell right now I feel you know the feelings I had throughout the day my stomach was eating itself you know you don't want to do that you don't want to push the fast out too long although some people do talk about the benefits of fasting for an extended period of time you know 24 hours even longer than that just I think probably to you know clear out the entire body before you go on ingest something else otherwise you've you've always got you know something moving through your body it's probably a good thing I assume to you know clear everything out every once in a while as well as increasing growth hormone production human growth hormone so that's a you know that's naturally occurring in the body different processes different things that you do with your diet with your training and things can increase or decrease your human growth hormone production naturally and I think there have been studies to prove that you know intermittent fasting for an extended period of time does increase human growth hormone production so effectively right now being 24 hours fasted my growth hormone level should be heightened I do believe if I'm wrong let me know if I'm right then maybe I'm gonna make some extra gains today I don't really don't know but anyways I just want to bring out the camera because you know I have done a 24 hour fast so some people may be interested in seeing how that's gone for me and like I said before it's not easy I felt I feel depleted right now I feel your mouth gets dry you've taken in no carbohydrates you've basically pissed out all the water you know you're sort of dehydrated I've had caffeine throughout the day which has also helped with the you know it's based caffeine is a natural diuretic so right now I'm feeling dehydrated I'm feeling depleted I want to go to the gym in fact I am gonna go to the gym but before I do I'm definitely gonna eat something so what I'm gonna have is nothing too big honestly I'm gonna have two bananas and that's it I'm gonna mix up mix up a scoop of oxy shred after that take it to the gym with me and then we'll see how we go with the with the workout now bananas is something I eat on a daily basis they're probably my favorite fruit and one of the main reasons actually because of the way they make me feel after I eat it so the way they sit in my stomach you know I know that if I need to eat something before I go to the gym or relatively soon before I go to the gym I'm not gonna want a huge meal I'm not gonna want anything that sits in my stomach that makes me feel sick or anything bananas are always a go-to you know they're good for a snack they're good for smoothies they're good in the morning they're good by themselves and they're also good as a pre-workout meal so that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna take two bananas and that's it but honestly fuck that was a bit of a rant I don't know how I honestly don't know how I summoned up the the energy to talk like that it's just something funny about when you bring out the camera and you know you've got a message to tell and you're into this youtube stuff you know you can just switch on just like that and that's what I just did but right now I'm gonna switch back off so I wouldn't recommend 24 hour fasts although what it has done is it's meant I've burnt fat for 24 hours I've burnt fat this entire day okay I haven't burnt fat throughout the sleep but you know as soon as I wake up I feel that my body has probably used up all of that fuel that I've given it the night before and I am in fat burning mode and I'll tell you what you know it's been 12 hours of fat burning basically and that's why I feel the way I do you know when you're burning fat when you're when you're burning your body fat you're not using carbohydrates for fuel you're using body fat for fuel you're gonna feel it you're gonna feel you know a little bit tired you're gonna feel depleted and your muscles the glycogen's not there you're gonna feel it right that's what I tell people you know dieting's not easy okay losing fat you know dieting isn't easy the only way it gets easy easy as such is if you find a diet that doesn't feel like a diet and then it's not dieting it's just your lifestyle but just actually stick to a diet something that you're not used to and you're probably not gonna continue after the dieting period that's hard man and when you are in a in a chloric deficit you think my battery just run out what I was gonna say is look the reality is when you're in a chloric deficit when you're trying to lose body fat and you're exercising you know training in the gym you're not gonna feel the best okay you just not people say when they're on keto diets they feel fantastic well yeah all right keto diets I understand though and they may make you feel better mentally but you know being being a bodybuilder okay being someone who likes to train with heavy weights as well as aerobically at the moment I need glycogen man I need carbohydrates I need that fuel and no one is ever gonna be able to change my mind on the fact that a keto diet is not ideal for someone who goes to the gym for someone who lifts weights heavy weights they need that that that performance they need that fucking fullness and they need to feel strong and I'll tell you what when I'm on a keto diet I do not feel strong I feel small I feel fucking depleted I think for me to have that performance and also the stamina in the gym I need carbohydrates you know I think it's on a carb diet I can bench press 100 kgs for five right I think on a keto diet yeah I'd be able to lift 100 kgs but I guarantee I won't be getting it for five reps I'll get it from maybe two reps I can I can feel it now I know that feeling when you've got no carbohydrates in system I know what it feels like you feel like fucking hell man what's going on here what's what's happened you know last week I could lift this why can't I this time and then you think well shit I haven't eaten much today and you know it's fuel agree okay protein is essential fat is essential carbs are not essential I know that I agree but when you're training in the gym you are doing yourself a disservice not taking in carbohydrates and not getting the performance benefits from the carbs so I don't even know what the fuck I was talking about but anyways what you've got out of this video was the fact that I did a 24 hour fast today it went okay but I won't be doing it again in the future I'll continue my normal you know intermittent fasting that I've been doing usually I will eat up until probably midnight and then I will get up the next morning and you know fast till one or two in the afternoon so that's probably about a 12 to 14 hour fast I'm doing most days of the week and it's going well for what that said guys I'd like to leave you now I'm gonna go and get my two bananas see how I feel and then go to the gym for another workout just another one in the books so eat well won't you guys train hard you know what I'm gonna say I'll see in the next one peace alright guys you can see the time here it's 9 17 p.m. 28 to the 6th 2017 and you probably can't see me behind me because the the windows are all fogged up because it's frickin cold outside Alice Springs in winter is is fucking freezing and today is no exception now before I did talk about going to the gym after being faster for 24 hours and I've just done that so I thought you know giving a little bit of perspective before I came to the gym expecting how the workout was gonna go I was you know it's feeling pretty fucking down feel it pretty depleted I had no energy you saw me and I'll tell you what mindset mindset is so key in this shit attitude I went into that gym knowing that I'd eat and fuck all I didn't like I ate one banana didn't even eat to and you know as strange as it may sound I got a huge kick and a huge boost of like energy from the fact that I knew how much fat I've just lost today like you know I channeled that motivation from from that because you know at the moment obviously cutting is so important to me for me to have pushed through like I did today and get to a 24-hour fast when I was feeling fucking hungry you know I could have eaten the house honestly it motivated the hell out of me and I went into that gym you know not giving a shit whether I felt depleted or weak or not because I did I knew I did but in my mind I was still gonna hit that same weight that I hit last time and that's exactly what happened so you know mindset is key the workouts done now I'm sitting in my car thinking about it yeah the pump wasn't there like it normally would be and well yeah right now okay I am feeling pretty pretty fucking depleted right now like I still haven't eaten obviously I've smashed a workout but my attitude throughout that entire workout put any thought of me being weak out out of my mind it just wasn't there you know I was in the zone and I'm happy so I wouldn't say that it's the worst thing in the world fasting for 24 hours because you do burn a bit of fat especially in those last few hours but you wouldn't want to do it like every two days or you wouldn't want to do it often to be honest it's it's something I I utilize when I don't know when I feel like I can I guess like today I didn't actually have too much food on hand so I just didn't eat it and decided to make this video when I hit 24 hours to tell you guys how it went so right now it's nine o'clock obviously and we've hit 26 hours with one banana and some BCA so today you know I don't go completely fasted I do have BCA's throughout the day which is you know protein drip fed basically and it makes my water taste nice as well so with that said I'm gonna call it a day here guys I hope you've enjoyed it I am feeling you know like I've absolutely killed the day I mean right now I can go home and pretty much eat whatever the hell I want and get away with it so that makes me feel good and right now I'm about to head right across there just across the road and go to Coles and get me some dinner and some dessert so what I'm probably gonna get is a roast chicken which I've been getting a lot of lately and pull off the two breasts and some of the meat from the legs and that will probably be my protein sauce I might get some Greek yogurt mix some protein powder with it and that will be another protein sauce I'll probably eat some mixed berries I'll probably have another banana and I'll most likely have some sort of carbohydrate on top of that so overall I'd say 150 protein probably 200 carb and like minimal fats for this bunch of calories that I'm gonna have post workout but with that said I'll see you guys in the next one have a fantastic night peace