Roadman today I want to talk about why I fast every day
Roadman today I want to talk about why I fast every day. Let's cure that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our longevity? That is the question on this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. Rodeman! Welcome back to another Rodeman Cyclone podcast. If you haven't checked out yesterday's podcast, my sincere advice to you would be to just pause this right now and jump back to yesterday's podcast. Because yesterday's podcast, I went down a crazy little warm hall on why I called this halting Rodeman, why I called the show Rodeman, why I called the company, Roadman, and what it means to be a roadman. And honestly, a feedback on that across Twitter and Instagram has been crazy today. So thanks for everyone who sent me a DM's, and thanks to everyone who's self-identifying as a roadman, because roadman, they don't make excuses. Roadmen get it done. Roadmen, they have a vision for themselves, and then they step into that vision. They're leaving that all life behind them. We're gonna build on this, and I'm big on this at the moment, because it's a time when we need this tribal connection that we need to be connected to each other, And we are connected as listeners in the podcast, through this name, Roadman. So I'm gonna see Ben to these podcasts. What I see as our collective identity as Roadman and very, you know, not much of a difference between cult and culture. There's only in UER at the end of that word cult and we have culture, but what is the Roadman culture? And that's a lot of what I'm gonna be talking about. But today, excuse me, I wanna talk about why I'm fasting every day at the moment. Before I jump into that, let me remind you about Patreon because Patreon's how I fund the podcast. Patreon is the reason we're still going because so many of you listeners have decided to dig into your pocket and buy me a price of a beer once a month to fund the podcast and that's why we're going. Many, many small businesses going under at the moment and luckily this podcast is not one of them thanks to the user generosity. Yesterday we spoke about what it means to be a roadman, Honor, trust, integrity. These are qualities that I value, and these are qualities that are inherent in roadmen and as you as a listener. So I'll call upon those very qualities, and I'll ask you to head on over to patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore Walsh and boy me, the price would be here once a month to just say, thanks for the content. So fasting, is there a fad? Is there science behind it? Or is it just the latest in a long string of paleo, aken-style diets. For me, it's a lot more than a fad, and if you trace the origins of fasting, it's very closely aligned with a central ethos to this podcast of how do we live a little bit more ancestrally. For a long period of time, pre-industrial revolution, we didn't have this easy access to food where we could just open a fridge or pull something out of our pantry. For a long time, we wondered from place to place looking for food and if you look at right now in this culture we're sitting in on an entire timeline of human existence we're on a very small part of that timeline and for a long time we were the other guy the hunter-gatherer guy so fasting sits very fit sits very well with who we are and it has a lot of benefits which we want to jump into today but you got to think about fasting as the two main benefits to the sports business trying to take a hell of structure this to main benefits are to ways i see fast and be necessary specially joined pandemic.
One you have your compressing the feeding window and jump into that…
One you have your compressing the feeding window and jump into that to you have cellular benefits to it so i suppose the easiest to get started in is the compressing the feeding window. I've spoken a podcast during the week where I had a message someone saying should they get tested for toy ride and I was like fucking toy ride you need to move motherfucker if you're not walking 20,000 steps today you don't need to get tested for toy ride issues and That's our problem at the moment. We're so stationary and we're taking in so many calories because they're so convenient These poxie little cereal bars you're eating or the you know inverted commas healthy snack bars that are just loaded with sugar these things are packing serious calories. So we have this double hit here, we're barely moving, and we're taking calorific treats all the time. So fasting eliminates one side of that. It's not gonna help you walk, and you need to go and get your, group off your ass and get moving to get those 20,000 steps. But what fasting is gonna do, it's gonna cut down the amount of errors in the day where you can do damage to yourself. So a very typical fasting protocol is 16, eight. 16 hours of no food, eight hours of food, 16 hours famine, eight hours feast. So this is not a complicated concept. You have your last meal at night, then you set a stopwatch, and then 16 hours later, you have your next meal. You can have water in between, you can have non-calorie drinks, like you can have an espresso in the morning, you can have a black coffee in the morning, anything fancy like that that's non-caffeinated, perfect. Don't go for aspartan, I know Coke Zero or Diet Coke has no calories, but I has aspartame and I can trick the body into producing insulin. So stay away from those. For me, practically how this works is, I have my dinner in the evening and I don't need again to lunch. So I'm getting up in the morning and I'm skipping my breakfast. Now, I'm compressing this feeding window. So I'm cutting out one meal. So the idea of three squares a day, now I move to two squares a day. I'm having lunch and I'm having dinner. Parking all the talk of macros, micro nutrients, all the different minerals and vitamins we should be getting in, this is a really, you know, parade-up principle, 80, 20, rough way to improve your body composition really fast. Even if you have a completely terrible diet, if you're only eating this diet for six hours a day as opposed to your regular 12 hours a day, you're already making a huge improvement. So this is one of the huge benefits straight off the block. You're taking less calories in during the day. This is gonna offset your lack of movement that we have as a culture at the moment. So six hours a day, brilliant. You won't even be hungry after a while. Get up in the morning, have your black coffee, suffer true to lunch, then you have your lunch. The second benefit is where I wanna dive in and actually do a full Wednesday podcast on this. It's a process called cellular toffee. So it's like a cellular cleanup. So when we're constantly putting food in our system, the food needs to be broken down in our system. So there's very complicated chemical reactions going on to break down food. Like what's coming in, proteins coming in. Okay, what do I need, what enzymes need to get released to break down the protein? Okay, now it's going to amino acids, where do these need to go? We're going through the muscles for growth and repair. So there's a complicated chemical process and sorting that needs to go on when food goes into our system.
If we're constantly putting food in, this process is constantly going…
And if we're constantly putting food in, this process is constantly going on. But the moment we stop putting food on, food into the system, the body can go to work on repairing damaged cells. And some of these damaged cells could be like pre-cancerous cells. Cells responsible for Western diseases like cancer Alzheimer's and cells responsible for aging. So when we don't put it in the food, the cells help themselves. Like explain it to a buddy today who's not very academic as, It's like when someone loses their job, they sit at home doing nothing for the first couple of weeks, and they're doing nothing, they're playing PlayStation, they're watching Netflix. But soon enough, if they're sitting around doing nothing, they're gonna go, oh, you know what? That shelf's a bit wonky. I think I've fixed the shelf. You know what? I'm gonna put a new roof on the shed. You know what? I'm not gonna chimney up here. You know what I mean? The house improvement started happening, and they're just sitting around doing nothing. And that's very much what happens to our body when we stop putting in food, and the body has nothing to process. has nothing to do. It goes about repairing and upgrading the structure you already have inside your body. It's called cellular autophagy. It's worth looking up. So they are two of the two main benefits of fasting and you could dive in deep on each one of those and talk about them for hours but really, really, really from, you know, 10,000 views, a board sovive view, it's a super effective way to improve your body composition, to drop a a little bit of weight and there's some serious health benefits associated with it. So what you're going to do is you're going to go to bed after your last meal. So you have your last meal at nine o'clock at nine o'clock, so a bit late, seven to eight o'clock in the evening and then you don't need again to lunch the following day except for a black coffee or a black tea. Any questions on that? Hit me up on Instagram. It's roadman.cycling on Instagram. Fasting is something I love. You get crazy mental clarity from it. I'm going to talk to you in the coming weeks about ways you can supplement your fasting, about ways you can, you know, supercharge your fasting to so you're born a little bit, you know, fat borns a little bit faster and you have more sustained energy throughout that fasting period. But I'll get into that in a later podcast. Roman, thank you for tuning in and I'll chat to you again tomorrow. Hey everybody, it's Anthony again. Really quick, I want to invite you to join and arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge. It's a challenge called a 14 day kickstart challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making you faster and making you leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guesswork out of everything. It's 14 days of training plans regardless of what your level is. There's masters, beginner, advanced. There's meal plans, shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you true at all. So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmansoycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio that roadmansoycling.com slash 14 day.