There is a strong community of intermittent fasting (IF) within Crossfit and many produced amazing improvements in performance while being on the fasting regimen. For some it helped to break through the performance plateaus as well. Certain movements that are challenging become much easier if you drop body fat from 12% to 5% or simply drop some bodyweight without losing any muscle mass. The logic goes like this: If you could do 20 pullups at 170lbs, you will do 40 at 162lbs if you lighten up and keep your muscle…
As I approach the Open in the next 3 weeks, I will switch to IF to push for that extra performance boost… It will be close to the LeanGains model of 16hour fast and 8 hour eating in the 10am-6pm window. I adopt the variation based on John Berardi‘s CrossFit Journal recommendations. If performance suffers – then all bets are off, though…
Rest day today…
