Back at last, WiscFit is proud to announce it's latest edition in the 95 Diets saga...The Fast-5 Diet is a style of eating that relies completely on one simple rule: you can eat whatever you want, in whatever quantities, during one single 5 hour period during the day. That's it. Eat for 5 hours, don't eat for the other 19. Doesn't get much easier than that, does it?
This style of eating puts a few different scientific ideas to work. The first scientific principle is that of caloric restriction. The basic idea is that a person can only shove so much food in their facehole in 5 hours, which in turn means that a person following the Fast-5 nutrition plan is more than likely going to consume fewer calories than they normally would otherwise. Therefore, as most people know, when we eat fewer calories, the human body generally sheds some weight.
Along with caloric restriction, the Fast-5 diet also utilizes the ancient hunter-gatherer principle of intermittent fasting (IF). Back in the early days of human development, food was not a guarantee like it is today. Therefore, the human body grew to adapt to times of great feasts and times of prolonged famine. If you and your friends killed a deer, the feast was on; if you came back empty from the hunt, you famined (spellcheck say's that "famined" is not a word, but I'm gonna go ahead and make it one). Anyway, back on topic...
Without geekin' out too much, here's some science knowledge for you... This built-in feast-famine mechanism (also known as IF) is a way of regulating your insulin levels. When you're constantly eating, especially carbs, your insulin levels will get elevated. If this happens over a long enough period of time, you can run into a state of unhealth where your body overproduces insulin (hyperinsulinemia). Basically, when this happens, your body's insulin resistance is all out of whack; your body has a ton of insulin running through your blood, but it doesn't know how to use it all properly (BAD).
When you fast, there's no food telling your brain to have your pancreas release insulin into your system, thus bringing your insulin levels down to near zero. When you do eat again, causing your body to release insulin, you become more sensitive and responsive to the insulin (GOOD). Y'all still with me? K, good.
The last principle at play in the Fast-5 diet plan goes along with the caloric restriction idea. Your body has two options when it comes to the fuel you put in it: it can burn it for energy, or it can store it. Assuming that you aren't running a 5k with a bucket of KFC tied around your neck, your body is only capable of performing one of these functions at a time. When you eat and digest food, it stores it as energy in one form or another (fat, glycogen, etc.). When you take a break from eating (IF), your body doesn't have anything new to break down for energy, and thus goes into energy burning mode (which is a good thing if you're looking to maintain or lose weight).
What to keep: I like this Fast-5 idea. It's got intermittent fasting and caloric restriction, which are sound scientific ideas. It's even got a catchy name that reminds you of the only rule you have to abide by when you follow the diet. In my humble opinion, IF is a great idea, and everybody should give it a shot a few times, if only to see how going without food affects them. Also, as an added bonus, the entire Fast-5 Diet pretty much sticks in line with my favorite nutrition plan of all time, the Paleo Diet. I say keep it all!
The Bull****: The entire Fast-5 plan has only one rule: eat for five hours, don't eat for the other 19. What I don't like is that there's no prescription for the quality of the food you should be eating. Since I have yet to read the actual book on this, I could be wrong though. If you eat a lot of garbage food, then the Fast-5 diet should still work. If you have decent quality food (*cough*cough* anything you can hunt or gather *cough*), then this style of eating should only work better.
Long story short, WiscFit is proud to have a second nutrition plan that it can endorse! In fact, I like is so much that I'm going to give it a shot for the next two weeks. I'll report back on August 8th to let you all know how it went.
This style of eating puts a few different scientific ideas to work. The first scientific principle is that of caloric restriction. The basic idea is that a person can only shove so much food in their facehole in 5 hours, which in turn means that a person following the Fast-5 nutrition plan is more than likely going to consume fewer calories than they normally would otherwise. Therefore, as most people know, when we eat fewer calories, the human body generally sheds some weight.
Along with caloric restriction, the Fast-5 diet also utilizes the ancient hunter-gatherer principle of intermittent fasting (IF). Back in the early days of human development, food was not a guarantee like it is today. Therefore, the human body grew to adapt to times of great feasts and times of prolonged famine. If you and your friends killed a deer, the feast was on; if you came back empty from the hunt, you famined (spellcheck say's that "famined" is not a word, but I'm gonna go ahead and make it one). Anyway, back on topic...
Without geekin' out too much, here's some science knowledge for you... This built-in feast-famine mechanism (also known as IF) is a way of regulating your insulin levels. When you're constantly eating, especially carbs, your insulin levels will get elevated. If this happens over a long enough period of time, you can run into a state of unhealth where your body overproduces insulin (hyperinsulinemia). Basically, when this happens, your body's insulin resistance is all out of whack; your body has a ton of insulin running through your blood, but it doesn't know how to use it all properly (BAD).
When you fast, there's no food telling your brain to have your pancreas release insulin into your system, thus bringing your insulin levels down to near zero. When you do eat again, causing your body to release insulin, you become more sensitive and responsive to the insulin (GOOD). Y'all still with me? K, good.
The last principle at play in the Fast-5 diet plan goes along with the caloric restriction idea. Your body has two options when it comes to the fuel you put in it: it can burn it for energy, or it can store it. Assuming that you aren't running a 5k with a bucket of KFC tied around your neck, your body is only capable of performing one of these functions at a time. When you eat and digest food, it stores it as energy in one form or another (fat, glycogen, etc.). When you take a break from eating (IF), your body doesn't have anything new to break down for energy, and thus goes into energy burning mode (which is a good thing if you're looking to maintain or lose weight).
What to keep: I like this Fast-5 idea. It's got intermittent fasting and caloric restriction, which are sound scientific ideas. It's even got a catchy name that reminds you of the only rule you have to abide by when you follow the diet. In my humble opinion, IF is a great idea, and everybody should give it a shot a few times, if only to see how going without food affects them. Also, as an added bonus, the entire Fast-5 Diet pretty much sticks in line with my favorite nutrition plan of all time, the Paleo Diet. I say keep it all!
The Bull****: The entire Fast-5 plan has only one rule: eat for five hours, don't eat for the other 19. What I don't like is that there's no prescription for the quality of the food you should be eating. Since I have yet to read the actual book on this, I could be wrong though. If you eat a lot of garbage food, then the Fast-5 diet should still work. If you have decent quality food (*cough*cough* anything you can hunt or gather *cough*), then this style of eating should only work better.
Long story short, WiscFit is proud to have a second nutrition plan that it can endorse! In fact, I like is so much that I'm going to give it a shot for the next two weeks. I'll report back on August 8th to let you all know how it went.
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My sense of music is stuck in a most serious dilemma. There are two versions of this song, one just by 3OH!3, and a remixed one featuring Katy Perry. For the life of me, I cannot tell which one I like better. Somebody please weigh in on this to help settle the issues my brain seems to be having with this song!
3OH!3 - Starstrukk
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WOD 100724 Saturday
Warm-up (new mobility moves have been added!)
S/S: 20 Minutes of snatch technique work.
WOD: In two person teams, complete three rounds for time of:
-20 Burpees
-40 Overhead Squats, 75/45#
-60 Box Jumps, 24" box
-80 Double-unders (or 240 Single-unders, if double-unders aren't part of the arsenal yet)
-400m Run*Only one person may work on the burpees at a time; only one bar per team for OH squats; both members can do the box jumps at the same time; only one jump rope per team; both team members must complete the run before the burpees can be started. All reps of one exercise must be completed before moving on to the next.
Finish: 25 slow squats, focusing on technique only.
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