New research looks at whether a beer or two messes with fat loss and muscle gain during a HIIT workout routine.
But as for why alcohol didn’t mess with these changes? It all comes down to total calories, or how many calories you’re taking in versus how many you are burning, said“Body composition changes typically take place with improvement of dietary patterns and initiation and/or maintenance of an exercise program. Alcohol can be a part of a healthy dietary pattern, but must fall within someone’s total calorie needs,” she said.
Plus, as Goodson points out, the study comprised previously untrained individuals, “thus, it is likely the improvements in body composition and lean muscle mass were due to initiating a 10-week HIIT training program, not related to alcohol intake.” Sorry, drinking beer on its own is not going to help you burn fat or build muscle—that’s where diet and exercise come in.
The takeaway, though, seems to fall in line with something we’ve emphasized all along: moderation. People can, in fact, live a normal life while training, says Molina-Hidalgo. “If this [normal life] includes [drinking] beer in moderate amounts while eating, they can do it—if they like beer, of course—without destroying their progress,” Molina-Hidalgo said.
Just don’t go overboard—that can hurt your weight loss goals as well as your health. Moderate alcohol intake
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