I wonder if this also applies to exercising right before dinner, which is what I do.
The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
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#42After exercising, how long should one wait till breakfast?
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#43This is hardly amazing to anyone who fasts regularly. I saw increases in all my major lifts when I train fasted and eat plenty of good fat (60% of total kcal). I would love to get a hold of the full study for a better look at it. Edit: Reading this article a bit closer, and taking to look at the study, it is clear that the author has some serious bias against the idea that a high-fat diet with fasted training will be…
Links to where I can read more about this "fast training" stuff? never heard of it.
Google "Intermittent Fasting" (IF). For many people the hunger pains go away as long as they don't eat at all for long periods of time. It can make it easier to lose weight because you end up eating less calories over the course of day or week.
Personally, I can't IF at all because of my activity levels. Missing 1-2 meals for a couple days means I start losing weight which is not something I'm looking to do.
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#44After exercising, how long should one wait till breakfast?
Only as long as you need to wait to feel comfortable eating. With weight training I usually drink a post workout shake high in carbs and protein then within the hour eat a well rounded meal.
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#45After exercising, how long should one wait till breakfast?
Only as long as you need to wait to feel comfortable eating. With weight training I usually drink a post workout shake high in carbs and protein then within the hour eat a well rounded meal.
>>Only as long as you need to wait to feel comfortable eating.
Could you please elaborate a little bit? It sounds a little vague to me.
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#46Wow, this is amazing. I'd love to try it out, but I'm not sure what I can do in the morning before breakfast. Maybe stationary bicycle. Anybody exercising before breakfast? What kind of exercise are you doing?
Try squats. They are simple, they roughly correspond in energy expenditure to not-so-fast running, they do not put too much blow on joints.
Squats were used by Soviet marathon runners for training in winter, when it is too cold outside to run. They squatted for hours.
One my squat is approximately 2.5 second. 5 minutes amounts to 120 squats. 30 minutes - 720.
I think you'll appreciate the power of 720 squats. ;)
Squats are pretty variable. You can put your hands behind your back, fold them on the chest, actively wave them helping squats - all those variation will give you different feeling.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only as long as you need to wait to feel comfortable eating. With weight training I usually drink a post workout shake high in carbs and protein then within the hour eat a well rounded meal.
>>Only as long as you need to wait to feel comfortable eating. Could you please elaborate a little bit? It sounds a little vague to me.
Some people can eat something immediately after exercising, some can't.
When I run in the morning I usually rest for a few minutes to cool down, take a shower and then have breakfast. But you can eat immediately after you finished exercising if you feel like it.
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#48For added fun wash your mouth with a carbohydrate solution (don't swallow) before exercising: http://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Abstract/2004/12000/The_Ef...
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mind if I ask what your motivation is for training strictly for strength and not endurance?
My own reason is that training for strength stimulates your body to produce testosterone, which stimulate logical thinking, among other things. Low level of testosterone found to be one of reasons of men's depression.
Also muscles look nice on guys.
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#50This is no news, really; in fact, we were even taught this part in basic metabolism in biology class in 7th grade. In the morning, the body has depleted its reserve of "immediate energy" in the blood stream and tissue - glycogen, mostly, assuming you have a carbohydrate-rich diet - and will instead have to source energy by instantly burning your fat deposits if you call upon the body to do so by increasing your heart…
> the human body is primarily a FAT-BURNING MACHINE.
How would our metabolism have to be different for you to come to a different conclusion?
(I just want to know, how strong your statement is.)