He’s quite stubborn when it comes to what his believes are and I’m too tired to keep throwing studies and videos at him, he won’t look at them anyways. I’m trying to find a way to tell him that I shouldn’t do bodybuilding while fasting and that fasting is my priority right now. He just tells me that he thinks that fasting and especially not drinking anything isn’t good for sport and that sport would benefit me more right now than doing dry fasts. All I’m doing right now is walking on my dry fasts and riding bicycle on refeeding days.
Anyone got an idea how to get through to him?
Show him the marathon runners that water fast and use the keto diet to increase endurance. I forgot his name but I think one of them was on the JRE years back.
Take care to show it requires adapation. Beginners wont get a boost: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8248683/
Then show him the bodybuilders who use fasting to promote insulin sensitivity
Stop talking about fasting as the main point and talk about the mechanisms fasting already affect. Without making that connection he cannot have a thought because there is nothing there to think about.
Theres more as well but it all boils down to fasting leveraging mechanisms. You use those mechanisms to specific purposes just like you use the mechanics in mind when planning your diet and exercise plan to specific purposes.
educate him or rather have his stubborn self watch the nobel prize in 2015 from autophagy. no other modern medicine including hyperbaric oxygen chambers or occlusion resistant training or vasoconstriction therapy if dude is really a sport science person should kno those things, none can match the healing process of fasting especially dry fasting