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Eating windows during a muscle-building study
Hypercaloric 16:8 time-restricted eating during 8 weeks of resistance exercise in well-trained men and women
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What it found
Both groups gained fat-free mass. TRE completed fewer repetitions and gained less fat; squat findings varied by analysis.
Keep these limits in view
Small free-living sample; no direct muscle imaging. Eating windows and workout feeding changed together.
Understand the context
- Evidence type
- Small randomized controlled trial
- Population or scope
- Well-trained adults: 10 men and 7 women
- Sample or coverage
- 17 participants
- Study duration or data period
- 8 weeks
- Comparison
- TRE with fasted workouts versus fed training; both prescribed energy surplus and matched macronutrients.
- Measured outcomes
- Three-component body composition, maximal strength, endurance, repetitions and energy ratings.
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