USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie rankings, April 4: Will UFC’s middleweight title picture get some clarity? The UFC’s middleweight division may be more competitive than ever before, but that’s not necessarily a good thing for the 1. UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping (3. MMA, 2. 0- 7 UFC) has been called out by just about everyone in the weight class, but with former UFC welterweight title holder Georges St- Pierre (2. MMA, 1. 9- 2) returning to the sport after more than three years on the shelf, those contenders are all taking a back seat. Yoel Romero (1. 2- 1 MMA, 8- 0 UFC) seems to be the deserving No. St- Pierre pushing to fight Bisping late in 2. Soldier of God” may end up needing to fight again. If that’s the case, there’s a handful of other challengers who are vying to get themselves into such a contest. Such is the case at this weekend’s UFC 2. Gegard Mousasi (4. MMA, 8- 3 UFC) meets former champ Chris Weidman (1. ![]() Walking and light exercise do nothing for weight loss when you are massively overeating! Should you use High Reps vs. Low Reps to get the best results? If you are looking to lose fat, build muscle, or increase strength, you must read this article! Skipping snacktime won. Hypothalamic lipophagy and energetic balance. MMA, 9- 2 UFC). That trend continues next week, as well, when Ronaldo Souza (2. MMA, 7- 1 UFC) meets Robert Whittaker (1. MMA, 8- 2 UFC) at UFC on FOX 2. Ahead of those key matchups, take a look at the middleweight division, as well as all of the other weight classes, in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA rankings. Part One - Weight Loss“When a person has nothing to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he could do.” – Herman Hesse. It’s making (non- caloric) lemonade out of lemons, and for all the transcendental insights contained in Hesse’s book, this line strikes me as a really cool, no- nonsense way to make the best out of a bad situation. But how useful is it, really, to today’s readers? Very few of us ever have “nothing to eat.” On the contrary, food is ever at our beck and call, with very little effort required to obtain it. Actually, that’s not completely true. Processed junk and fast food is readily available, while the good stuff – fresh meat and veggies, actual, you know. Should you use heavy weights or light weights while resistance training? Our expert has the answer to this common fitness dilemma, plus tips on how to maximize your. Could lack of sleep be causing you to gain weight? Think about it: If you Exercise for Weight Loss. When trying to lose weight, which is most important: diet or exercise? This is what a survey found recently: But the main point stands: we rarely go without. That doesn’t mean the quote is useless. In fact, with a few slight modifications, it becomes extremely effective weight loss advice. Check out my version: “When a person has had too much to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he could do.” – Mark Sisson. Back in 1. 96. 5, an obese Scotsman of 2. Department of Medicine in Dundee, Scotland, with a problem. He needed to lose weight. A (1/8 of a) ton of it. The doctors suggested maybe not eating for a few days could help. It was just an offhand recommendation, but our Scotsman (known only as “AB”) really took to it. He stayed at the hospital for several days, taking only water and vitamin pills while undergoing observation to ensure nothing went wrong. ![]() ![]() When his time was up, he continued the fast back at home, returning to the hospital only for regular monitoring. After a week, he was down five pounds and feeling good. His vitals checked out, blood pressure was normal, and though he had lower blood sugar than most men, he didn’t seem particularly impaired by it. The experiment continued. All told, he lost 2. Over the five following years of observation, AB regained just sixteen pounds, putting him in excellent, but underpopulated territory (at least 8. Other doctors paid attention. Maybe it was the fact that it was the 6. Vietnam, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters blazing across the U. ![]() S. Study after study shows that whatever you want to call the protocol – intermittent fasting, fasting, alternate day fasting, or alternate day caloric restriction – it works very well for weight loss. A few recent ones: So, yes: it works. Obviously, when you don’t eat anything, your body turns to its own stored energy reserves, reserves that take up physical space and have mass. Depletion of those energy stores reduces mass and thus weight. Total and absolute caloric restriction. That’s elementary stuff and the studies from the 1. To dig a bit deeper, let’s look at how weight loss occurs during a fast. I’ll stick to research involving humans only (sorry, rodent personal trainers). Secretion of growth hormone, one of the premier. A later study showed that during two- day fasting sessions. They experienced more frequent GH bursts and each burst secreted a higher mass of GH. Without lipolysis actually releasing stored body fat, it’s rather difficult to, well, burn that body fat for energy. This insulin- blunting aspect of fasting quite literally allows the fast to be successful, because without the ability to access stored body fat for energy, making it through a period of zero caloric intake will be nigh impossible. Fasting improves insulin sensitivity. Both catecholamines increase resting energy expenditure during a fast, and guess where your fasting body finds the energy to expend? This makes intuitive sense, doesn’t it? If you’re hungry in the wild, you need to hunt (or gather, or fish, or somehow procure food) and you need energy to do it. The catecholamines help provide some of that energy while burning fat in the process. Hmm, notice anything? All those mechanisms dealt with fat burning specifically. While there may be some weirdo out there who’s interested in reducing bone mineral density and muscle mass while maintaining fat tissue, I would wager that what most people mean by “weight loss” is “fat mass loss.” From the stuff I just linked, it looks like fasting burns fat, rather than just weight.? Is it true? Let’s go to the research: In one. Weight didn’t change, which isn’t really surprising, but body composition did change – and for the better. Body fat decreased and lean weight increased (in addition to a bunch of other beneficial changes) without an overall reduction in calories. A. That really isn’t in contention here, folks. Even AB, the fasting Scotsman, reported very little difficulty throughout his 3. If fasting is easier for you than trying to laboriously count calories, fasting is going to be the more effective weight – er, fat – loss method. All in all, fasting is an effective way to lose body fat. It’s not the only way, and it isn’t “required” for Primal weight loss, but many in the community have found it to be very helpful and the literature backs them up. If you’re looking to jumpstart your fat loss, fasting may be just the ticket. To get some ideas, be sure to check out my post on various fasting methods. In subsequent installments, I’ll highlight some of the other benefits of fasting. There are a ton, and new research is being released all the time, so I expect I’ll have a lot to discuss. Until then, I’d like to hear about your experiences with fasting for fat loss. Let us know in the comment section! Thanks for reading, everyone!
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