Hands up if, like me, you've spent years of your life skipping breakfast after reading that fasted workouts are the holy grail when it comes to metabolism boost and fat burn? And, as a result, struggled through workouts, low on energy and feeling exhausted?
While everyone's body is different and what works for me likely won't work for you, it's definitely fair to say that professional opinions on fasted training are... mixed, and have changed a lot over the past few years. For most of the last decade, experts repeated time and time again that working out fasted was the thing to do if you wanted to supercharge your health, muscle and metabolism. But new research has seriously drawn that into question, especially for women.
