Hodgetwins Eat Fast Food To Stay Lean and Make Gains

Hodgetwins Keith and Kevin are making all kinds of gains eating fast food while staying lean.  Here are 3 of their techniques they use on a daily basis.

The Hodgetwins Keith and Kevin are known for their comical routine on YouTube along with their infamous eating challenges while making all kinds of gains.

I would not recommend children watching any of their videos due to the graphic nature of their comedy routine.

However, for those who want to eat their favorite cheat foods and still be able to make all kinds of gains while staying lean, here are 3 techniques you may want to use the next time you have an urge to drive through your favorite fast food joint.

Hodgetwins Technique #1  Intermittent Fasting

Through trial and error the Hodgetwins have had their ups and downs with intermittent fasting.

Presently they seemed to have had some success with intermittent fasting and continue to use it to this day.

Intermittent fasting is a method in which you only eat withing a particular time frame.

Once the window of eating closes, the fasting begins until the eating window opens up again.

How Your Body Utilizes and Process Food

When you eat, your body immediately begins producing energy from the foods you are eating.

If you have just consumed foods high in carbohydrates and sugars your body is even more receptive to these, as it prefers to use energy produced from these sources.

Your body will spend a few hours producing energy this way, instead of burning the fat that is stored on your body, this does not help with fat loss.

Insulin, The Body’s Most Powerful Hormone

When you are fasting however, your body will use the fat on your body to produce energy because there is no readily available energy from food.

So when you fast, you are in essence forcing your body during a period of your choosing, to use the fat that it has been stored to produce the energy it needs.

While fasting may go against the conventional wisdom that advises that you eat six small meals a day for weight loss, there is a lot of logic behind why this kind of approach to weight loss makes perfect sense.

When you eat, your body releases the hormone insulin in order to keep your blood sugar level safe.

Insulin carries any excess glucose that the body produces out of the bloodstream to your liver, your muscles or fat cell storage.

Insulin, however is a double edged sword because not only does it take sugar out of the blood, it also increases the amount of fat that is stored.

So when you diet by choosing to eat six small meals a day, as is often recommended, you are essentially giving your body license to produce a hormone that increases fat, six times throughout the day.

By fasting intermittently you select the window during which insulin will be released, herein lies the advantage spoken about earlier.

This essentially puts the power of weight loss fully in your hands unlike so many other methods.

Also, when you fast the amount of growth hormone released is increased while you are sleeping and in the period immediately after fasting.

This release of growth hormones helps you to grow and build strong muscles.

 There are several ways to do intermittent fasting.

1. A.M. Fast –  You may choose to skip breakfast and only eat from midday to maybe seven or eight in the evening. Others may choose to eat only in a four or a six hour period.
2. 24 Hour Fast –  You may also choose to eat as you normally would and then not eat for twenty four hours after that.
3. Two A Day Intermittent Fasting – With this method, one takes restricted amounts of calories during two days and normal eating is done on the other five days.
4. Alternate Day Fasting – This method involves total abstinence from all kinds of food for 24 hours followed by 24 hours of normal eating.

Hodgetwins Technique #2  Train Fasted

Many people think that training fasted is when your stomach is empty but it’s much more than that.  It has a lot to do with how your body breaks down and absorbs food.

When you consume food they’re broken down into different kinds of molecules.  These molecules are released into the blood stream and causes insulin to spike as well.

Insulin’s job is to shuttle theses molecules into the cell.   Insulin levels can be elevated for several hours depending on how much food you consume.

As soon as you consume food your body processes and absorbs them resulting in being in a fed state.  When your body is finished processing food, insulin begins to decline to a lower level or base line level.

Once insulin drops, your body goes back into a fasted state.  So in a sense, your body goes from fasted to fed all day long depending on how much you eat throughout the day.

• When training in a fed state your body is still breaking the food down while insulin is elevated.
• When training in a fasted state your body’s insulin levels are low or at a baseline level.

Your Body Does Not Burn Fat While In The Fed State

When you consume food before hitting the gym, insulin is released and your body will use that food for energy.

If you are trying to lose fat it would be ideal to train in a fasted state as you’ll use body-fat for energy rather than the food you consumed an hour prior to training.

Think of it like this, if your body has a surplus of food before training it has no reason to use body-fat for energy to get you through your workout.

When food isn’t present and being processed it has no choice but to use the fat on your body to fuel your workouts.

For a more in depth view as to training fasted, see more here – http://turnaroundfitness.com/training-fasted-produced-muscle-fat-loss/

Hodgetwins Technique #3  Calories and Macros

The Hodgetwins first rule to getting a ripped body is you have to know how many calories and macros are required for your specific body type.

As a good starting point, you will find a formula that directly relates to your own body below:

1. Take your body-weight and multiply by 10=?  This is a good starting point as to know exactly how many calories you need everyday.
2. Example: If you are 200 pounds that would equal 2,000 calories a day, roughly depending on your height and age.

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