Welcome to Multidimensional.

I'm your host, Christina Rice, aka Christina the channel.

And this is the place where we explore what it really means to be multidimensional.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome back.

I am back again with Holly Perkins, women's strength expert and

author. And I have some Q&A's that you guys sent in. So we're going to rapid fire send them to you.

Give us your best. Okay. Your best answer. All right. How critical is it to eat after working out with weights?

What if I'm intermittent fasting?

I would say it's actually more important to eat beforehand.

So if you're intermittent fasting, do not go into a fasted workout.

I understand some of the key buzz concepts around it.

The truth is the point of your workout is to go in and

train hard to create a stimulus to change whatever system you're working on your muscles,

your cardiovascular system, your flexibility, whatever. So it's important that you're going into

the session ready for battle. And so if you're going into a workout, your workout is not about burning

calories. It's about working hard to create enough of the stimulus so that when you go home

and your body recovers, you'll recover better. So I would say golden rule is to fuel yourself

smartly before your workout. Depending on that, you may not need to fuel yourself smartly before your workout depending on that you may not need to

fuel yourself after if you're following that old school intermittent fasting where you work out

at the end of your fast and then fuel yourself if you are a woman over the age of 30, I would strongly encourage you to move away from that

approach.

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