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Podcast: Fit + Fueled Life Podcast
Episode: EP148: Should you do fasted workouts if you want to gain muscle?
Description: Why skipping breakfast is preventing you from gaining muscle...
You are always burning some level of carbs, fat, and protein throughout the day.
Ideally, though, you want to utilize primarily carbohydrates because it’s going to help preserve your muscle mass.
When your body doesn’t have enough carbohydrates and it’s out of glycogen stores (glucose/sugar is your body’s main/favorite source of energy), it will break down muscle as fuel.
(Your body can’t regulate blood sugar with fat; it needs sugar.)
In order to produce carbohydrates (or glucose), amino acids that are stored in muscle are broken...