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Women's Wellness ON AIR WITH ELLA

093B: Fasting Q&A Should I Exercise? Who Should NOT Fast? (Part II)

Women's Wellness ON AIR WITH ELLA

Ella Lucas-Averett

Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

5699 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Fasting for Wellness: Q&A Part II

Get Part I here.


  • Should we exercise while fasting? For Intermittent Fasting most experts say yes, but for water fasting, that's a no. Walk, stretch and move, but don't over exert yourself with training.
  • Is fasting different / better for men than women? The jury is out, and the topic is hotly debated. Here's a good summary of the issues
  • Even more Q&A can be found here, with great insight from Primal Living expert Mark Sisson.

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, this is Part B to episode 93.

0:05.0

Welcome, you're on air with Ella, where we share simple strategies and truths from people who are doing something better than we are.

0:12.8

Whether it's wellness or fitness and fat loss to just living better and with more energy, or changing your mindset to accomplish more in your own life and succeeding

0:22.0

however you define it. This is where we share the best of what we're learning from the experts

0:26.5

and we're learning more every day. Live better. Start now. Okay guys, I'm picking up right

0:36.5

where I left off in the first half of episode 93 with more

0:40.0

Q&A about fasting and intermittent fasting. Let's jump right in with some questions about exercise.

0:46.9

So, of course, a lot of you had questions about what type of exercise, how much exercise

0:51.1

you should or should not do when you're fasting. And as with everything

0:55.0

else, I'm going to share with you what I'm reading and then I'm going to share with you what I'm

0:58.5

actually doing. So several people, including Mary, said, I'd be interested in any commentary on

1:03.6

exercising while fasting. Do we skip our workouts? Pollyanna said, it seems like everyone is saying

1:09.6

that they have lots of energy while fasting.

1:11.5

Does this mean people are keeping up with their regular physical activities?

1:14.7

And then many more questions in the same vein. So several schools of thought here.

1:19.5

First of all, exercise while your intermittent fasting is not only perfectly acceptable. It's

1:25.1

actually recommended. There's a lot of science behind it that I'm not

1:27.9

going to go into now, but certainly if we want to have additional experts on the air, we can do so

1:32.3

about intermittent fasting and exercise and even timing your exercise for the best results. But that's

1:37.9

not what we're doing today. Today I want to talk mostly about whether you should maintain your

1:42.5

same levels of activity, training, and or exercise

1:45.5

during a water fast or any kind of pretty severe fast. My, and I mean everything from healing to

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