What do you eat before an early morning workout?
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coffee... lots of black coffee..0
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I work out around 430 am. I have either Jack 3d or Beachbody Energy and Endurance Pre-Workout Formula when I am home. When I am traveling I just make a cup of hotel room coffee before I work out.0
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If I was going to eat something (which I don't since I workout very early before it's even time to eat 4AM) I would make a pea protein green smoothie:
Vanilla Pea Protein
fistful of curly parsley
vanilla, stevia
water, Ice
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You don't "need" to. Test what works best for you.
Weights - I ate nothing. No big deal.
Long, steady ride? Toast with banana/jam/PB. Or cereal. Or sometimes nothing to stimulate fat use/glycogen sparing.
Hard workout with intervals - now that's tough. Probably just sip sports drink with calories plus coffee. Learned the hard way.
Long group ride that starts early and hard and has maximal effortintervals? Tricky, and probably screwed. Start the night before with a late night snack. Last time I got this one wrong my PB/banana/bread slice tried to come back. Many times, as stated in " learned the hard way" above. White bread. Instant oats. Banana. Simplest carbs possibles with no fiber/no fat.
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Sometimes I'll take my gummy vitamins.0
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banana or a yogurt
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I have an 80 calorie cheese stick. It's fast and convenient, not to heavy and gives me protein. I used to not eat anything before a workout, but found the cheese stick helped keep the migraines away.0
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Nothing. I wake up, get dressed, take my morning vitamins and pills then go to the y four my 6000 yard swim.0
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I don't. If I stop long enough to eat, I'll talk myself out of going and go back to bed.0
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Add me to the nothing group. I get up at 5:30 and get to the gym around 6am. I generally drink about 0.5L of water, since I'm a little dehydrated in the morning, and then refill my water bottle so I have enough for the workout0
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I do a banana before and a glass of chocolate milk afterwards. I get out anywhere between 4:30 and 6am.0
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I generally eat 1 hour before going to the gym. Usually cereal. I have an hiatus hernia so I have to eat food that I know won't cause reflux. Eating nothing can also cause that.0
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Smoothie which includes blueberries, some banana, avocado and ricemilk. Easy to digest and it gives me great energy to workout at the gym.0
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