Should I Workout While I am Fasting?

 So I recently had a question should I work out when I'm fasting? 

                          So let's talk about how so many people have this idea they have to eat before exercise to get energy for whatever reason. So let's first talk about the three or four variables to exercise you have the type of exercise you have the intensity of the exercise how hard it you go and then the duration how long you go and then you have the recovery so the purpose of the exercise is to make you fitter to increase the health of the system to build more capacity more fitness to have less stress. There are many benefits of exercise but those are some of them so what you're doing is you're stressing your body and then your body is going to adapt to that and prove various things you have to be careful not to overtrain because overtraining will inhibit your sleep keep your inflammation up and reduce your gains. So it's always kind of an adjustment of figuring out what your optimum amount of intensity duration and recovery is if you overtraining.

                        let's say you only give yourself a few hours to recover you know you're not going to see any change now in the recovery mode this is when all the good things happen glycogen reserve replenishment new capillaries are grown new mitochondria cell structures are repaired enzymes are restored enzymes of the things that do all the work in the body. lactic acid is cleared if you have too much lactic acid in your body that your body can't burn up because it can use this as fuel. It can create a condition called lactic acidosis which can cause Russ's leg syndrome difficulty breathing in a whole series of other symptoms. Also, you have the endocrine system involved where you have a really good spike of growth hormone which is involved in improving not just muscle growth but the growth of other proteins and also repair in general of proteins another hormone that has increased is called glucagon. Which is a hormone that helps you burn more fat now the problem is when you consume the food before you workout or you do carbo-loading which I'm very much against you decreasing the amount of growth hormone that you can produce. You potentially can increase too much lactic acid in the body because glucose turns into lactic acid and you greatly diminish the ability to burn fat because when you're eating the body is going to be burning up those dietary calories and not your calories now. when you fast you get massive additional increase of growth hormone. Now think about it exercise triggers growth hormone and fasting increases growth hormone so when you combine them you get a huge effect on growth hormone. What's cool about fasting is you get amazing reparative action so you have this huge spike in repair in general. So it's gonna come in handy when your body's trying to repair from the stress so the body can get new capillaries. Mitochondria repair the cell structures more efficiently when you work out during fasting mode.

                                You can enhance fat burning by 20 to 30% more and also improve insulin resistance. Now a reason why certain people consume carbs before the workout is they're trying to enhance the spike of insulin to build more muscle mass but here's the problem it also at the same time creates insulin resistance because the body does not like too many carbs. So the more insulin resistance you have the less you're gonna absorb as far as amino acids and protein nutrition but by doing fasting you develop a much more sensitivity for insulin in general and the insulin works a lot better so you can pull in more amino acids and more nutrients.

                    Now, as far as the type of exercise this depends on your recovery so if your recovery is poor you do aerobic exercise low intensity walking something light and then you build up to more anabolic which is more like high-intensity. Interval training would be a very good compound resistance exercise using as many muscles as possible when you're working out at a high intensity that would be very beneficial to maximize your growth hormone 

                                In summary absolutely yes you want to strive to exercise when you're fasting because there are so many benefits mainly for the reparative actions.