Diet breaks are a popular dieting tool in evidence-based fitness circles. Diet breaks are claimed to improve muscle retention, fat loss and diet adherence. We collaborated with the University of South Florida and other researchers to investigate if there was any truth to these claims in our newly published study. Previous literature on diet breaks has mainly looked at untrained and male subjects, so we performed our study with strength-trained women. What we did We recruited 54 strength-trained women to perform a 6-week fat loss diet with a 25% energy deficit. All participants consumed a high protein diet with...[Read More]
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