Anyone else do light, fasted cardio?

Of course.

 

Creating the habit of blocking out the time is the FIRST step. Just do a walk. Pace doesn't matter. Just do the walk regularly. Eventually start to pick up the pace. Maybe add a touch of jogging. Over time? You will be doing real work. Just create the habit and fitness will follow.

If you do it first thing in the morning? You should pound a glass or two of water first. Your body is pretty dehydrated from breathing all night. If you are going to push yourself? Have a plain glass of black coffee before you go. The caffeine will kick in about 20-30 minutes into your work out and give you a monster second wind.

When you get back? Just drink water and eat healthy. If you are just walking, best thing you can do before you get into fancy dieting is stopping eating 3-4 hours before bed time.

Starting out, doing = effective. Your body will handle the improvements. You just have to get your mind to handle the discipline to adhere to scheduling. Mon, Tue, Wed-off, Thur, Fri, Sat-longer, Sun-off.

Good luck man. Stay strong. :thumbsup

 

You might get stitch.

 

It is surprising how much brisk walking can help you. I used to walk to the train station to go to work, and it would take about 45 minutes in total (both ways) per day. Since stopping doing that I've put on nearly a stone in weight! Exact same diet, a year older. It's the first weight I've put on in about 7-8 years.
So it is clear that brisk walking is an effective exercise for keeping your weight down.

 

Weight loss is my biggest challenge so im keen to learn more on this and give it a try. Cheers!

 

i sure it doesnt make a difference but wanted to check , can you go walk without a coffee and get the same result at the end IE i had a small glass of water this morning and then went .. ?

 

sure that's pretty much the same, just anything to speed up your metabolism helps a little, like green tea, caffeine etc
then again you won't suffer if you don't have any of that!

 

Not at all to discount this, but in my experience caffeine pills or any other pill that isolates caffeine rather than in a natural form coffee/tea seems to leave you prone to heart racing and jitters. Neither are good feelings.

Maybe less of a chance of this while walking versus doing more vigorous cardio. :think

 

The fasted cardio is unnecessary, and with all due respect to MrSmall, simply another opinion on how to go about doing something when it comes to weight loss. It boils down to calories in vs. calories out. You don't need to do it fasted especially if you're a "fat ****" since any cardio will help you lose weight, and food will help fuel you to even work out harder. Personally I tried fasted morning cardio and couldn't do it because I was lacking the energy to sustain a jog even half the distance I'd normally run. Basically the main thing is **it boils down to what you prefer to do**.

Several other supporting key points from a simple googling of fasted cardio:

-Exercise Physiologist Greg Landry, MS, author of "The Metabolism System for Weight Loss and Fitness," explains, "I agree that you burn a fuel mix that is a little higher in fat if you’re exercising on an empty stomach. However, I think the real question is, does that matter? I believe we have a ‘pool’ of calories stored in different forms in the body (fat, glycogen, etc.), so ‘burned’ calories all come from the same pool. Thus, it really doesn’t matter that the fuel mix has a little more fat in it at a given time. If it’s pulling from fat stores at that time, then it’s pulling less from glycogen stores and thus future consumed calories will be a little more likely to be stored as fat because glycogen stores are a little fuller. So it’s all a wash."

-Lyle McDonald, an expert on bodybuilding nutrition and author of "The Ketogenic Diet," agrees. He argues that the body will compensate later in the day and is simply "too smart" for strategies like this to make a substantial difference in results: "All that research says is that you burn a greater proportion of fat this way, which I agree with 100%," says Lyle. "The majority of research shows that as far as real world fat loss goes, it doesn’t really matter what you burn. Rather, 24-hour calorie balance is what matters. Because if you burn glucose during exercise, you tend to burn more fat the rest of the day. If you burn fat during exercise, you burn more glucose during the day. The end result is identical. If that weren’t the case, then athletes like sprinters who never ‘burn fat’ during exercise wouldn’t be shredded.

- http://www.liftforlife.com/content/forum/16-diet-and-weightloss/34358-am-fasted-cardio-not-good

(I don't usually like posting things claiming "studies have shown..." because you can pretty much find a study supporting anything you want. If I showed a study claiming my laptop is black, someone could probably find a study claiming they found it to be red. You get the idea. )

 

BladeJrs, its an efficient way to lose fat, its a means to an end but definitely not the only way! Moving is the best thing you can do to lose weight over restricting calories and still sitting on your ass all day, that's an important factor for me too. Different stimulation (sprints) has different results (maybe the same, maybe better)! It's mostly based on calories in vs calories out, and if you are fat anything will help you lose weight. However, how do you really know what calories you are using, or need to lose, or need to gain weight? There are calculators, but you show me two that come up with the same numbers! Plus counting calories is a bit rubbish, unless its a general guideline as to avoid eating too much. But then again you can monitor that in other ways (are you getting fatter?).
Back to topic: sprints burn fat throughout the day sure, but the difference is the fasted steady state does not bother your recovery or ability to train later in the day, whereas if you have a solid sprint session, you might be compensating your recovery from your skills training, or other training you may wanting to be doing. Plus you can put the steady state pre breakfast, it doesn't interfere with your day. I don't think anyone would say fasted sprinting sessions are optimal to be done first thing in the morning. Plus something easy early in the morning starts the day off pretty nicely I think. And if you don't have the energy to have a brisk walk for 40 minutes in the morning without breakfast you have some sort of diet or fitness issues, no offence! But not a jog, which is what you said you had issues with, which is probably understandable to an extent.

It depends how used to caffeine you are! Green tea pills have a similar effect on your metabolism, but are more expensive, but don't give you the jitters.

 

"its a means to an end but definitely not the only way!"

Which basically supports my point: do what works for you. I didn't say anyone had to run sprints, the point is you don't HAVE to do fasted cardio because it doesn't necessarily benefit someone more in terms of weight loss than other forms of cardio

 

My light cardio can be heading to the park with a soccer ball. Jog around throw in a few sprints.

 

Yeah agreed mate. Just there are a few other benefits that I mentioned elsewhere from that one line of my post

sounds good, don't overdo it on an empty stomach though!