19. Ramadan: Tips on How to Maintain Muscle and Minimize Fat Loss During This Holy Month
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Knowledge and Mileage Podcast, Kris enlightens us on how we can maintain our muscle and minimize fat gain while observing Ramadan. Listen in as he walks us through how to begin and break your fast. Get useful tips on what to prepare to get optimized nutrition while fasting.
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- Background about Ramadan [0:45]
- Choose calorie-dense foods upon breaking fast [3:25]
- Ensure to stay hydrated throughout the day [7:20]
- Maintain meal frequency if you can [8:34]
- Tweak your training [9:14]
- How to begin your fast [11:03]
- Avoid doing cardio or hard training while fasting [13:15]
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| 0:00.0 | What's up dudes and dudettes? Chris Gethin here, CEO of Gage Muscle. |
| 0:05.3 | And to all you people on YouTube watching this, hello, I often neglect the people on |
| 0:12.5 | YouTube by not looking at the camera, not interacting. Instead, I'm too busy, forcing my voice |
| 0:19.3 | down his microphone. |
| 0:29.0 | So, guys, if you are listening to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or any other platform, |
| 0:32.9 | you can actually go onto my YouTube and watch these episodes. |
| 0:34.1 | Not that they're exciting. |
| 0:40.3 | However, if you want to look at my bucket on my head, you can tune into the YouTube. But anyway, today, let's get straight into this. This is perfect timing because during |
| 0:48.4 | the month of May and June, specifically May 15th here in the US, is Ramadan, Ramadan, 2018, starting from May 15th in the US. |
| 1:02.7 | You know, Ramadan is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting to commemorate the best of times, quote on quote. |
| 1:11.6 | It celebrates the first time the Quran was revealed to Muhammad according to Islamic belief. |
| 1:17.6 | And the subject today will be, hold on one sec, my phone is going off, I need to silence that, |
| 1:25.6 | is how to minimize muscle loss and fat gain during the month of Ramadan. So it's a little bit stricter than the fasting protocol that I go through. My fasting allows me to have fluid. I call it a controlled, intimidated fast where I do have my supplements. I have my pre-cage, my |
| 1:46.7 | re-cage, my in-cage, my multivitamins. I have my hydrocharge that I drink throughout the day with my |
| 1:51.9 | BCAAs, with my glutamine. So it's a controlled fast. And maybe I'll break my fast about four, five |
| 1:59.5 | o'clock in the afternoon. And maybe I won't do that |
| 2:01.8 | every day. However, Ramadan in its strictest form, are not eating during the day. From dawn until |
| 2:10.8 | dusk, there is no food abstin, so it'll, no fluid either. It's wet dry fast um so it's it's a very different so i've |
| 2:22.7 | had many many questions over the years uh from muslims on how to get through this fasting |
| 2:29.2 | period without gaining fat still uh perform still still improve, still gain muscle, |
| 2:36.0 | or at the very most, maintain their goals, or at the very least, sorry. |
| 2:41.0 | I had a gym in Australia back in 2002, 2003, up until 2005, |
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