My question for you is, even though weight training is a primo form of resistance training, do you exclusively recommend the use of weight training with Eat Stop Eat?
This was my answer –
With Eat Stop Eat ANY FORM of resistance training will do. I realize that when most people hear ‘resistance training’ they automatically think ‘weight training’ however, resistance can mean so much more than simply weights.
Really, it should be called something more vague, like muscle-stress training, since what we are really trying to accomplish is adding an acute stress to the muscle. Isometrics, weight training, contact sports (think a football line or a wrestling match), and body weight exercises (gymnastics) ALL accomplish this.
Even with weight training there is still a lot of variety with what you can do and use to stress your muscles. You can use traditional tools like dumbbells and barbells or more obscure implements like lengths of chain and even rubber bands – I just read about an entire
workout program designed around the convenience of rubber bandexercises (Resistance Band Workout).
The most important aspect of any resistance training program is to make sure that you are constantly improving by putting the muscle under a little more stress each time you train it. The method or tools that you decide to use to create this stress are not nearly as important as the stress itself and making sure it increases in some way from exercise session to exercise session.
And, yes -You can weight train while you are fasting
BP
PS- Here is a video of one of my favorite Chest exercises – The Corkscrew Incline Press
