God damn it Jkurz1! Your so full of shit it's pathetic! Eating bars before exercise! What kind of nonsense is that! Why don't you just take your namby pamby suggestions to a body for life forum will ya! Oh yeah! and yer a hypocrite too!
LOL! Just thought I'd flame ya like you wanted.
Seriously, it may be that those bars contain some sort of psuedo-hidden-sugar that is in some kind of "ductro-destro-mesa-thormorphin-chemical-ese" (in other words one of those things in the ingredients no one knows what the fuck it is), and that gives you a short, sharp boost in energy. How do you feel after the workout? Are you really burnt out?
Oh wait I was flaming you wasn't I?
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smells of elderberries! I fart in your general direction...etc." (John Cleese - The Holy Grail).
cheers dude