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scruples
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personally, i lift and do cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach... i have tried eating before training too, just to see if i experienced any benefit but i did not... for me, strength and endurance are equal if i eat or not... and since i'm also doing cardio after my weight session, might as well maximize it's benefit by not eating...
If you ate 2 plates of pasta they day before you can be sure that you have enough liver/muscle glycogen stores, however... In the morning sugar levels are very low and you cannot really unleash the liver glycogen until you manipulate your inluline by eating something.
Therefore working out in the moring:
- Not eating at all before wieghttraining/cardio is not adviceable, unable to tap into your energy reserves, protein/muscle wasting can occur.
- Eating a large meal and training shortly afterwards is also not advicable as your body is busy with digestion in regards with working out with weights and especially for cardio purposes you spike too much insuline to access your fatreserves
- Eat a small meal, an apple and some cottage cheese or a protein shake.....This will be enough glycogen to get your brain functioning allowing for better CNS effort and also just elevates insuline to the minmimum point so that the liver glycogen can be accesed. Also keeping the meal small, your body don't put too much blood / energy into the stomach , therefor it doesn't hinder your weights training.
Therefore working out in the moring:
- Not eating at all before wieghttraining/cardio is not adviceable, unable to tap into your energy reserves, protein/muscle wasting can occur.
- Eating a large meal and training shortly afterwards is also not advicable as your body is busy with digestion in regards with working out with weights and especially for cardio purposes you spike too much insuline to access your fatreserves
- Eat a small meal, an apple and some cottage cheese or a protein shake.....This will be enough glycogen to get your brain functioning allowing for better CNS effort and also just elevates insuline to the minmimum point so that the liver glycogen can be accesed. Also keeping the meal small, your body don't put too much blood / energy into the stomach , therefor it doesn't hinder your weights training.
For over a year I trained at 6:30 AM, as that was the only slot my trainer had available. I would set my alarm for 4AM, get up and eat, and go back to bed. Then I would get BACK up at 6, eat again if I needed to (rare), and then hit the weights.
Now I train at 6PM, and the results are INFINITELY better.
Now I train at 6PM, and the results are INFINITELY better.
