Carbs before a workout

catrinafinney34

I eat 37 carbs before a workout and I burned 670 calories, did I burn those carbs I ate before my work out? I ate 1 hr before going to the gym

sosteach

Depends on how many calories the carbs were. Plug it in to mfp...it will tell you

catrinafinney34

I ate 434 calories before hand and 37 carbs was in it... I'm just asking if I burned them doing my 600 calorie burn....

mmapags

Maybe. It doesn't matter exactly what calories you burned in your workout. All that matter is that in a day or a week or a month you burn more than you eat.

robertw486

catrinafinney34 wrote: »

I ate 434 calories before hand and 37 carbs was in it... I'm just asking if I burned them doing my 600 calorie burn....

That depends on your workout. I'd say unless the workout was napping, you easily burned more than the carbs you ate before. The higher the intensity of the workout, the more calories (as a percentage) you burn from carbs vs fats.

lorrpb

Yes.

rybo

Unless they were very easily digested sugars, no. But it's pretty irrelevant whether those were the calories you burned or not

trigden1991

What was your total energy deficit at the end of the day?

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

It would depend on the type of food you ate.

Different carbs digest at different rates.

inertiastrength

I ate 270g carbs before my workout last night, and then couldn't work out lol

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vismal

I think the more important question is why does it matter to you whether the energy utilized for your workout came from your preworkout meal or was from previously stored fuel in the form of glycogen, fat, or both?

Chadxx

mmapags wrote: »

Maybe. It doesn't matter exactly what calories you burned in your workout. All that matter is that in a day or a week or a month you burn more than you eat.

trigden1991 wrote: »

What was your total energy deficit at the end of the day?

vismal wrote: »

I think the more important question is why does it matter to you whether the energy utilized for your workout came from your preworkout meal or was from previously stored fuel in the form of glycogen, fat, or both?

Exactly, what is with the concern over a few carbs? Carbs don't make you fat. Too many calories make you fat.

LadyLilion

Not to be a smartass, but isn't this a lot like, "I poured a cup of water into a bathtub full of water, then drained half the tub. Did I drain the cup of water I poured in?"