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I have been jogging for a couple of months now and I eat a small meal or snack about 1 hour before I jog and then after I come back I have a piece of cheese or some milk. I was reading an article today that said that it is best to exercise on an empty stomach and that you should eat after. My thoughts would be that I wouldn't have the energy to complete my workout which basically involves 1/2 hr running 1/2 hr walking then 1/2 hr legs, arms and such on a rotation.
What are your thoughts on this? What works better for you? | |
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Posted: 5/5/2012 10:29:45 PM | Complex topic with lots of opinions...
Eat something light that gives you energy before working out. I like sugary whole foods like a banana; something easy to digest without too much fiber.
Afterwards, eat something nutrient dense and protein rich to recover and heal your body. | |
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Posted: 5/5/2012 10:30:08 PM | | Start you cardio in the morning with nothing but a source of h20 and your ipod. Stay away from the cheese and milk. Eating and drinking that is only progressing you at half speed. I recomend Working out in the early morning because sub consciously what you eat through out the remainder of the day will be on your mind. Also do an evening work out. But dont eat 2 hours prior and also focus on some core excercise such a light sets of burpies, seated row machine, and woodchoppers. It sounds like your putting to much effort into your legs. This will intern build bulky muscle and mot shed away that unwanted fatty areas. Eat right, drink water and focus on your goals :) | |
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Posted: 5/6/2012 12:43:09 AM | Hey, everyone is different. Some people dont mind waking up and straight away going to the gym, having a morning walk doing exercise basically. Other people are different. It doesnt really matter in the long run.
The four main macro nutrients are energy, carbohydrate, protein and fat. You NEED to have some of every type but in different proportions. There are fad diets out there that tell you, like the biggest loser, no carbs after 12... That in reality is not a sustainable diet and you cannot keep like that for ever.
You get carbs from pretty much every food, such as an apple to foods like a mars bar and lollies. Carbohydrates are the thing that you use in a day and you cannot start to burn off fat with carbohydrates in your system. The bodys prefered energy source is carbohydrates. At the end of the day while your sleeping if you have an excess of carbs they will turn into fat.
Having THE SAME breakfast before you exercise is the SAME as if you have it after. The brain does not care when it gets its energy just how. Your brain uses up around 1/5 of the food automatically.
My reasoning is if you have breakfast before you work out you will eat LESS than if you had it after as you have been starving yourself for no real reason and the body will be very cautious of you and will say... ok eat as much as possible because this person might do this to me again and have me starving for nutrients that I really do need.
Sorry its so long but im just passionate and eager to learn about the body and food :) | |
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Posted: 5/6/2012 3:41:30 AM |
Complex topic with lots of opinions...
Eat something light that gives you energy before working out. I like sugary whole foods like a banana; something easy to digest without too much fiber.
Afterwards, eat something nutrient dense and protein rich to recover and heal your body.
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I totally agree as I can get light headed and not do my best with out fruit first or watered down OJ and melon or an apple.
I am another one that needs the natural sugars/carbs before .
Then I come home and eat my protein. | |
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Posted: 5/6/2012 4:18:24 AM | I eat something small before my work out, even if it's some crakers n peanut butter or a piece of toast, depending on the time of day.
I do this because I might get light headed even though I'm not a diabetic. However, I have also heard that when you eat after working out, your calories are still burning, so what ever you eat right after gets burned up. I still don't eat a whole lot afterwards too. | |
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Posted: 5/6/2012 7:33:09 AM | If the goal is to lose weight, stay away from the cheese and the milk, unless it's fat free cheese and 1% milk. Stick with water and some fruit, but you've got the time down, about an hour before you work out.
I do 20 min of cradio (bike or run or swim or elliptical) three days a week. Two days a week, I use weights or target areas I wish to shape.
I cut out processed food and eat fish, white chicken, and low % fat steak. There's too much to list...
It really isn't that hard. | |
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Posted: 5/6/2012 8:20:34 AM | In general light meals that are easy for you to digest ( this is going to depend on the individual and will require you to do some experimenting ) and lots of water.
I like salmon or tuna or eggs as a lunch time meal for a day or skiing or windsurfing or for a long day of bikeriding with fruit and nuts for snacks along the way to sustain some energy. What you eat, how much you eat and how long you wait before you exercise all depends on the kind of intensity you are planning in your workout. If you plan on doing sprints give yourself time to feel like you have a relatively empty stomach. If you are doing a sustained relatively easy pace you can eat and drink small amounts while you are exercising to maintain your electrolyte balance. | |
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Posted: 5/6/2012 5:46:13 PM | The four main macro nutrients are energy, carbohydrate, protein and fat.
I was not aware that energy was a macro... | |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 3:12:43 AM |
Start you cardio in the morning with nothing but a source of h20 and your ipod.
Your body is in starvation mode when you wake up, in which it takes muscle and stores it as fat.
Eat within 30 minutes of waking up to set up your metabolism for the day. | |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 6:24:28 AM | | ^^^^ I'm curious how muscle is broken down and stored as fat | |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 6:36:31 AM | Your body is in starvation mode when you wake up, in which it takes muscle and stores it as fat.
I also would be interested in learning how the body turns muscle into fat for storage when in this so called starvation mode...
I really wonder where people are getting their information from. | |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 12:45:01 PM | There are plenty of academic and magazine articles on the subject. I'm not going to paste links, you are all big people who can search for information on your own.
I have to believe that anyone who knows anything about nutrition knows that you have to eat several times per day to maintain a fast metabolism. | |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 12:56:19 PM | You can gain fat or muscle. You can lose fat or muscle. But one cannot *Turn into* the other......under any conditions.
They both have completely different functions doing completely different things.
Sigh | |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 2:19:57 PM | I prefer that "light, empty" feeling while I work out - so I save the eating for when I return !
Gotta do what works for YOUR body - we're all so different that way .
Yay - being healthy, however you get there !!! | |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 6:54:52 PM | There are plenty of academic and magazine articles on the subject. I'm not going to paste links, you are all big people who can search for information on your own.
I have to believe that anyone who knows anything about nutrition knows that you have to eat several times per day to maintain a fast metabolism.
So are you saying that one needs to eat 5-6 meals a day as that speeds up the metabolism? Well I for one have looked at hundreds of studies on PubMed, studied nutrition and sports nutrition and have not come across what you stated. Muscle and fat are very different composition and function and one does not turn into the other.
There are enough studies done on the subject of meal frequency and weight loss to dispel the you have to eat x meals to lose weight deal. Foods or better yet macros have an energy cost to breakdown known as thermogenics and that does not change by how many times you eat. | |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 7:28:33 PM |
You can gain fat or muscle. You can lose fat or muscle. But one cannot *Turn into* the other......under any conditions. They both have completely different functions doing completely different things.
^^^ I totally agree. Honestly, how many meanings can this have??
However, for those who protest, if you've found the alchemist stone, I'll pay good money for it on Ebay. Just sayin... | |
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Posted: 5/7/2012 8:26:48 PM | Congrats on getting in shape.
I've run for over 4o years and also a gym rat for most of that time. I run usually 5 or 6 days a week (25 minutes) and 3 times a week (I hour) at the gym. Push ups on off gym days.
Unlike most folks, food has little impact on my exercise routine. Then again, I'm a vegetarian. I can run fine on a full or almost empty stomach. Any time of day. Before I do weights I like to eat an orange...not sure if I need it or it is just habit. I love navel oranges.
Most weight is determined by calories in and calories out. Other variables might have an influence but hard to be certain of 'what's what'. | |
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Posted: 5/8/2012 7:44:26 AM | The bro science is strong in this topic.
Any Alan Aragon fans in here? | |
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Posted: 5/9/2012 5:49:54 PM | Depending on the workout intensity, what I have read was not to exercise for 2 hours after eating and to eat 1/2 hour after a workout. Of course your workout intensity is gonna be a deciding factor in this "advice"
My best advice is to journal, journal what you eat, when you eat, why you are eating, ( Boredom, hungry, etc), and when you are exercising and the hows: (Being how long, how intense, and what exercises).
We are not all cut from the same cookie cutter, what works for one set of folks may not work for another. I tried the six meals a day and was MisreablE! Always hungry and cranky and wasn't getting results. Finally gave up and just fell into what felt more natural to me. Did not know it at the time but what was natural to me was a IF life stye, (Intemitten Fasting), not recommending it, this was just what I was already doing and didn't know it, what was natural to me and my eating habbits.
But my main stress point here is to journal! Before I jounal I had no Idea how much carbs I was eating. Since then I have reduced the carbs and try to be more stratigic in my consuption of them.
Since Jan I have lost 11Lbs, and , 4-1/2" from the stomach and some moderate gains on arms.
Could have been more, but I suck at intensity, much much more the turtle than the hare.
Great luck hun! {Meant as an affectionate honorfric and not a slight in any way!} | |
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Posted: 5/11/2012 12:24:51 PM | | Depends on your end goal. Old-school thinking was to do fasting cardio and then waiting another 30 minutes after your workout prior to eating your post-workout meal for maximum fat-"burnage." It's easy to start chewing up your muscle tissue for energy that way if you're not careful though. However, it looks like you're doing cardio and resistance training for as much as 90 minutes altogether. I'd definitely throw down a piece of fruit or similar prior to starting a marathon session like that so that you don't end up doing a face-plant when you run out of gas. | |
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Posted: 5/14/2012 3:04:30 PM | | I know I am a little late on post but Specifictruths is very correct! | |
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Posted: 5/15/2012 9:13:42 PM | You eat before AND after!
eat about 30 grams of carbs before excercise with some protein(10-15 grams of protein) CARBS FOR ENERGY PROTEIN KEEPS YOU FULL
after your workout
30 grams of protein and 30-45 grams of carbs.
eat 4-6 small meals a day instead of 3 huge meals(this keeps your metabolism running all day and fast)
your workout sounds good, stay dedicated!
this diet is if you want to lose weight!
if you or anyone else has questions msg me im a personal trainer and nutritionist | |
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Posted: 5/19/2012 3:33:47 AM | | I normally workout in the morning on a empty stomache I'm burning alot of fat instead of what I just ate. I also workout later in the day after I eat my dinner to burn off much of the calories I took in. All in all if your trying to lose weight take in less calories then your body uses. The less calories and the more working out the better weight loss you will see. | |
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