food before morning workout, early observation

[michal1980]

so I switched up my morning work out to p90x3 & t25. I used to eat before working out, but decided to try eating after.

So far I noticed that on days that are more cardio - I feel no difference.

Strength work out days - I feel weaker. like I'm low on power.

Next week I'll try eating before strength days.

 

[z1ggy]

I would run the experiment a few times. Many other factors can influence strength on any given day. How you slept, what you ate the day before, how much water you have in your body, etc etc.

 

[Kristijonas]

I feel best when I don't eat anything for breakfast. Read somewhere that it is also healthy not to eat breakfast because 1. the body cleans and readies itself better. 2. Being hungry in the morning sends an evolutional message to the brain that you need to go out and find food, which makes you be awake in the morning easier. 3. If you don't eat for 12 hours the body begins to use certain reserves and it is healthy somehow. 4. allows a period of detox

 

[vi edit]

Cardio is largely aerobic and energy comes from oxygen and body fat stores for energy. Heavy lifting is anaerobic and calls on energy stored in muscles. If you have nothing stored up you'll tank easier on heavy aerobic exercise.

 

[Auric]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/art...-to-burn-more-fat-without-doing-more-exercise

Men and women burn fat and carbohydrate in different ways.

Men are very much ‘carbohydrate burners’ – if as a man you eat carbohydrate then your body is going to burn it rather than fat. Just giving the men carbohydrate at any time in our experiment made them burn a bit less fat! However, given that we all have to eat (and carbohydrate is an important part of our food), it is better for men to eat after exercising if they want to burn fat. This is because after exercise, men will use that carbohydrate to replace the carbohydrate in their muscles rather than burn it for fuel and will continue to burn fat instead.

For women, the results clearly show that eating before they exercise is better than eating after if they want to burn fat. Women’s bodies tend to burn fat more easily than men’s, and are not fuelled so much by carbohydrate. Moreover, women are much better at conserving carbohydrate during exercise. So when women eat carbohydrate soon after exercise, this is effectively overloading them with fuel, and interferes with the body’s ability to burn fat.