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Skip Breakfast To Build Lean Muscle and Burn Fat!

You have probably seen this if you visit other muscle building sites. I thought it was kind of interesting. I have never heard of fasting in this manner to build muscle and burn fat. It does pretty much go against conventional wisdom for muscle building.

So here is the article give it a read see what you think. Remember it goes against conventional ideas on gaining muscle so keep an open mind.

by Elliott Hulse, CSCS of LeanHybridMuscle.com

As far as I can remember people have been telling me that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” The benefits of this claim range from, “you’ll be smarter in school” to “you’ll burn more fat”, all by simply ensuring that breakfast is eaten.

Schools have implemented “breakfast clubs” for their students and doctors demand that their overweight patients eat SOMETHING for breakfast… even if it means slurping down a bowl of processed wheat flakes and skim milk.

If you want to think better, eat breakfast; if you want to burn fat, eat breakfast… heck, even if you want to get rid of dandruff or jock itch there is someone who can explain how eating breakfast will fix this too!

Look, if you are anything like me you have a habit of questioning things, especially so-called “facts” that most people take for granted and preach like gospel weather they’ve looked deeper into these facts or not. When something is repeated over and over again by the television and all of the pundits who pontificate from it, people simply accept it.

But not me… and if you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure that you’re not the simple “everyone-else-is-doing-it” type. You actually like when convention is turned on its head, and sets the sheep running hysterically from the comfort of their little shelters of confusion.

Well, this whole idea of “you must eat breakfast to build muscle”, that has firmly taken up residence in the brains and practice of fitness industry experts, needs to be explored just a little further in my opinion… especially since I’ve discovered that it’s not entirely true.

It has not only been my personal experience, but my research has also lead me to assert that it is absolutely possible to build muscle and burn fat by skipping breakfast. In fact, I am about show you how skipping ALL MEALS, or fasting for an entire day (yes, 24 hours!) can lead to faster and more efficient lean, fat free muscle gains.

First, I’d like you to consider that human beings are far more than a mathematic equation. Where in the linear world of textbook math 2 + 2 = 4; in the world of stress, depression, sex and sickness the formula isn’t always so neat.

Often, math in the fast, serious and sensual world of human life looks more like 2 + 2 = 6,009,342,215.

That’s exactly why the calorie counting doctrine makes absolutely no sense!

If it were so simple, then all of the overweight people who drink diet soda, skim milk and eat fat free cookies would be lean and sexy… right?

But they’re not… they’re still fat despite all of their low calorie efforts.

And I even know many overweight people that eat low calories AND use a treadmill for months, yet they are STILL fat! Weird, right?

Here is what most fat loss, nutrition and fitness experts forget to consider when handing out muscle building or fat burning advice…

We’ve Got Hormones! — and hormones make some really strange things happen inside the human body, wouldn’t you agree? My wife has been pregnant with four of my children and I can tell you FOR SURE, that hormones don’t work logically.

So if skipping breakfast or fasting to build muscle and burn fat sounds kinda weird and illogical, give me a few moments to explain. This may actually be the most important information that you’ll ever hear on the subject… seriously!

Generally speaking, there are two type of hormones… “Anabolic Hormones” and “Catabolic Hormones”.

In chinese medicine and philosophy…

Anabolic hormones fall under the YIN category because it behaves in a nature that is FEMININE (believe it or not). Some of the other attributes that describe anabolism is cold, passive and growing, its associated with night time and rest… and with regards to your autonomic nervous system it is parasympathetic .

Some anabolic hormones include testosterone, growth hormone, DHEA and insulin.

Catabolic hormones are thought of as YANG or MALE because it expresses the characteristics of being hot and aggressive, its associated with destruction or breakdown… it is signified by daytime and movement, and with regards to the autonomic nervous system it is sympathetic.

Some of these catabolic hormones include adrenaline, cortisol, glucagon, and epinephrine.

We would all agree that nature balances itself out, right?

There is never a day where there is no night, there is never a winter where spring doesn’t follow… in fact, one could even argue that day CAUSES night and winter CAUSES spring.

You simply can not have one without the other, and when one is doing it’s thing, the other is right behind it.

“What goes up… must come down!”

This is a law, it’s just the way it is… agree?

Well, our hormones work the very same way! We have natural stages or periods where catabolic hormones are to be secreted and stages when anabolic hormones are to be secreted.

Just like the night ushers in the day, catabolism signals your body to produce anabolism. This is called a “negative feedback loop” and is present in all areas of science and physiology… it’s how the body maintains homeostasis.

According to Ori Hofmekler in his book Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat, “Fasting or under eating sends a starvation-like signal that is perceived by the body as catabolic. To compensate for the missing food and to protect itself from metabolic breakdown, the body will boost its anabolic activities, spontaneously increasing its capacity to assimilate protein and other nutrients in order to ensure maximum nutrient utilization from minimum food.”

Look, it’s almost too simple! We, human beings, are no different than all that nature teaches us about balance. Why is it then, that we refuse to accept the idea that by purposefully inducing catabolism through skipping breakfast and fasting we can actually switch on anabolism?

Despite what cereal and supplement commercials have to say about eating breakfast, followed by seven small meals throughout the day… there are volumes of scientific literature that begs to differ.

For example a study conducted by the Department of Medicine at the University of Virginia in 1992 discovered that Growth Hormone (an anabolic hormone) is increased in healthy normal men after fasting for forty-eight hours! That means these guys were building muscle and burning fat like crazy after not eating for two days!

Please don’t take my word for it, go search: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, doi:10.1210/jc.74.4.757 , it’s all in there.

So, with this new rebellious understanding and clarity about fasting, hormones and lean muscle building… what the heck are we supposed to do?!?!

We need a system that produces natural spikes in catabolism to burn fat… and then allow, or even support anabolism to build muscle all within the same cycle.

In my system, that I call Lean Hybrid Muscle, I show you exactly how we can use catabolic hormones as a switch to turn massive amounts of anabolic hormones on, or in other words a “hybrid” approach that creates a negative feedback loop where we use strategic catabolic activities and habits to FLIP on, or create an ANABOLIC response.

By following my hybrid approach to dieting and training, you’ll end up with a net profit of LEAN MUSCLE MASS quickly without the the bloating as a by-product of traditional bulking and cutting diets.

This is exactly how we can effectively build muscle and burn fat by skipping breakfast.

So there you go. I told you it goes against the way most think about how to build muscle and burn fat. But it does make sense if you think about it.

Lean Hybrid Muscle there is also a free download there for you which goes further into this. Check it out.

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