The eating pattern known as ‘intermittent fasting’ requires individuals to restrict the amount of food they consume to particular times of the day. We begin this health and fitness course by exploring the benefits of intermittent fasting. We then dispel some common myths about this approach to diet and identify who can benefit from it. We assist you in determining nutrition priorities when constructing a diet that helps you to successfully build muscle and lose fat using the intermittent fasting model. This course answers questions like ‘is breakfast the most important meal of the day?’ and ‘how can intermittent fasting benefit your health?’.

The course explains how to create, use and stay on an intermittent fasting diet that benefits you. We establish the importance of including macronutrients in your diet. We discuss concepts that help you to build a balanced diet using healthy protein, carbohydrates and fats. The course provides useful techniques you can use to successfully build muscle. We answer questions like ‘how important are pre-workout meals to building muscle?’ and ‘what are the best supplements to use in an intermittent fasting diet?’.

This course explores the health benefits of using an intermittent fasting diet to lose weight or build muscle. You can confidently use these concepts and techniques to assist other people. We explain how to bring your knowledge together to design a diet. We trace each stage of the process for both losing fat and building muscle. This course helps people understand the basics of an intermittent fasting diet and explains how it can benefit them. By drawing on the science of nutrition, this health and fitness course explains how to build muscles or lose weight using the intermittent fasting diet technique.