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It's interesting that back in the days of "Stay Hungry" and "Pumping Iron," when the big meccas of bodybuilding like World Gym and Gold's Gym in Venice were home to such legendary bodybuilders as Arnold Schwarzenneger and Franco Columbo, everybody trained on an empty stomach. RIFT Platinum Bodybuilders of that era believed that you were more likely to mobilize your fat stores for fuel if you didn't have to burn off a whole bunch of carbs that you just scarfed down for breakfast. We now know that they were mostly right.

So should you forgo eating before working out? Not necessarily. rift gold "If you're interested in performing better -- like if you're training for an event -- you might want to eat first," said exercise physiologist and That's Fit expert Liz Neporent. "But for weight loss, evidence does seem to be trending towards not eating before working out."

Neporent pointed out that as a practical matter, there are going to be a fair amount of people who don't do well when they don't eat before working out. "They get dizzy, sick and even faint sometimes," she said. "But I've also had people eat right before working out that have felt exactly the same way!"

Bottom line: It's an individual thing, and no one prescription is going to work for everyone.

But for those who want to try it (and who don't get lightheaded or dizzy), working out first thing in the morning on an empty stomach might be just the thing to stop weight gain in its tracks. It did in the Belgian study, RIFT Platinum and those folks were purposely eating a really bad diet. It should work even better if you also couple it with a diet designed to help you reach your goals.

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