your staement was that to weight train on an empty stomach burns muscle. Not true.
Cardio on an empty stomach first burns the blood sugar, then taps stored fat to convert to blood sugar.
Two diffent topics.
First, all this is based upon a fast metabolism. This is acheived well by eating many small meals throughout the day. The fast the late evening night before and right before morning workout is an intemittant fast and not ketosis. Eating complex carbs doesn’t lead to ketosis. Ketotis is very trending lately, but is a fad, plain and simple. It is mostly a lame attmept to avoid lifting weights, or getting out and sweating. Every person in my gym who lifts heavy and progessively heavier wieghts to challenge their body is the healthiest body. THEY DON’T have back issues, bone density issues, sleep issues (unless they are over training) and generally do not need Rx, or have diabetes, heart/blood pressure issues etc.
Protein is THE key in it all.
We’re not even getting into macros here.
You CAN heavy lift with no protein in your stomach, but you must feed those muscles well after tapping into them as they repair from the tears to the muscles cells.
I don’t want food in my gut while I’m on a decline bench with a 55# dumbell on my upper chest as I do two sets of crunches, twelve reps each...and another two sets later. Just as no half/full marathon runner wants food in thier gut sloshing around while they endure 2-5 hours of running.
After the gym, protein and more protein.
After the run, half marathon, bananas and oranges and a nice thick chocolate ship cookie and plenty of water, then protein.
Agree to disagree.
Let me know when you’re doing flat bench DB presses with 120’s for 3 sets of 8, and we will talk again. :-)