I'm going to start changing the time I work out from the evening to the morning hours before I go to work. My question is would it be better for me to eat breakfast and then workout or vice versa? I never like to do anything physically strenuous after a meal, but in the morning it seems like the fuel from breakfast would be necessary.
you definetly need to get something in your body once you wake up...
breakfast truly is the most important meal of the day mainly becuase when you wake up, your body has nothing to burn or feed off of...so if you go without eating anything...the next thing it targets is the protein in your body. So what I would recommend is eating an apple or banana and like an energy bar of some sort...then when your done working out, eat a good breakfast
breakfast truly is the most important meal of the day mainly becuase when you wake up, your body has nothing to burn or feed off of...so if you go without eating anything...the next thing it targets is the protein in your body. So what I would recommend is eating an apple or banana and like an energy bar of some sort...then when your done working out, eat a good breakfast
wil is correct in giving it time to settle. I sometimes workout at 5am because I know I'll have a busy day (client meetings, long day testing, etc) and I wake up at like 4:15 and smash a good pre-workout shake and i won't leave until like 450 so I'll get to the gym by 5:10 and workout then. Gotta give you some fuel to workoout with. I eat breakfast after my work but again its another reason I wake up so early.
I would eat a small bowl of oatmeal with some fruit to get you through your workout. You don't want to get up early in the morning and then run out of gas going through you workout.
I have also read that working out on an empty stomach in the morning is a good way to burn fat. Since your body is in need of something to burn for energy it starts to feed off the fat in your body to burn. I might be wrong but I thought that I read this in a Men's Health.
I have also read that working out on an empty stomach in the morning is a good way to burn fat. Since your body is in need of something to burn for energy it starts to feed off the fat in your body to burn. I might be wrong but I thought that I read this in a Men's Health.
SSI said:
ssi is correct.. what it means is since you were sleep yoru body has really no source of energy so when you do cardio on an empty stomach what happens is your body needs energy so it will tap into your fat storage and covert that to energy.. good for weight loss.
I work out in the AM.......No breakfast....Just a little bit of coffee to get me going 1st. Then after I cool down, then I sit down for a good breakfast. Works for me. I can't work out after I have eaten. I can't run on the treadmill with Breakfast Gut.
