Apr
25
2006
Don’t eat after exercise
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Here is one that I had forgotten about. If you are having a cardio workout then your main motivation is to lose weight in fat. If you wait at least an hour to eat after all of your cardio workouts then your body will start to burn of the glycogen in your muscles instead of having a nice supply of sugar in your blood to feed off of. This is another reason why exercising, especially cardio are good to do first thing in the mornig before you have eaten anything to pop up your blood sugar. If you are going to have a weight workout this would be the other way around as you need to have all the sugar in your blood that you can get to fuel your muscles to lift heavier weights EDIT… Just wanted to add a quick extra to this and that is that if you are going to wait to eat after exercise the best amount of time that I have heard in the past is up to one hour. The kind of food you would eat then I do not believe is different between a weight or a cardio workout and that is to eat a balanced meal but not a really large one. Your body is healing after a workout and you would not want to tax the recovery by eating heavy foods that would slow you down Looking to make a change and lose some weight? I have reviewed the top diet on the internet and you can go and read over 200 comments people have made about why this diet has worked well for them, as well as some of the problems. Tags: foodIf you like this post then you will probably like these other related items as well
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Bill, I heard that digestion is usually accompanied with increase of blood flow around stomach and intestines. After excercise your blood flow is high in muscles and on skin surface (to support tissues with oxygen and for thermoregulation reasons). So if you eat after excercise it can lead to rapid decrease in blood flow in muscles and increase of blood flow in internal organs. Maybe it’s not good too and can be another reason why you shouln’t eat right after the excercise?
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You have to eat after a workout! Otherwise the workout is pointless. Your body looks for nutrients to repair itself and nothing. Thus it eats into its own muscles. Personal experience and weight training advice from professional body builders and ufc fighters.
http://mymuscletransformation.blogspot.com/2008/03/dont-eat-dont-workout.html
Taylor if your going to cite sources please find a better one than some skinny kid’s blog. That was pointless.
This is an interesting topic. I just read in Prevention magazine that the best method is to eat just a little something and then work out. After your workout, then eat your breakfast. Taylor was right about the body looking for energy sources. If your body is low on glycogen (the fuel for muscles), it then goes into the the Krebs cycle which burns fats. But it also burns proteins, and if your body is depleted, then it will get that protein from muscle mass.
I always thought that I should workout first, which seemingly would ramp up my metabolism so that when I eat breakfast afterwards, I’m burning through what I ate and my metabolism would be revved all day. But apparently this is actually counter-intuitive. So I’m going to try the small snack prior to working out, and then my meal when I’m done.
Um..I was told by my personal trainer that its vital to get protein, ie yogurt, eggs, fish after exercise to replenish the muscles and stop the body going into starvation mode. Come to think of it every fitness instructor I have ever consulted has told me this! I am slim and toned (though I never used to be) and always eat yogurt and fruit after exercise and often a baked potato. my personal trainer also told me the first hour after exercise is refered to as ‘the golden hour’ where what you eat gets burned up quicker, called after-burn, so its a good time to eat?!