Breakfast and Morning Workout

Food commonly takes 4-5 hours to fully digest (most of them at least). That means it doesn't matter when you eat (before or after). If you eat before you're only using a bit of the digested food towards your workout, not all of it, and the rest will help in your recovery after. If you eat after, pretty much same thing.

I prefer not to eat at all before or after (i work out at around 6am). My first meal is usually 1pm everyday and I hate breakfast. That's just when I get naturally hungry.

Prioritize total calorie intake over a day over when and how often you eat. Unless you're one of those people that swear they get hypoglycemic and cant get through a workout on an empty stomach...then have a snack before so you're mentally not handicapping yourself.

Try it different ways-I usually eat a protein bar (or half) before I work out then will have breakfast after I get to work. If I don't have a little something and I push myself, I tend to either get sick or faint since I do more now than I used to.

Everyone is different. I say personally listen to your body. I usually find that working out before I eat works better for me. Like I said though everyone is different.

I had a Biochemistry professor tell me to ALWAYS eat before a morning workout giving the food a little time to digest. His rationale was that you are coming off of a 12 hour fast because you usually haven't eaten since dinner the night before. Most of your glycogen has been used up, so your body has to break down fat or muscle to provide energy. Unless you are in a starvation mode your brain primarily uses glucose as it's energy source. Your body cannot produce glucose from breaking down fat, it has to break down muscle to do that. So you may be breaking down muscle to feed your brain, which is counterproductive. Once again, this was a guy with the PhD, so I trust him.

^^ Absolutely agree..I am a nursing student so this all makes perfect sense = ] I also find that if I don't eat and then do a vigorous workout..like my 30 day shred..I feel like puking lol so even if you get a little something on your stomach, it's better than nothing.

Plenty of studies show unless you are doing some very strenuous/long time cardio (like running a half marathon or longer) there is no NEED to eat beforehand if you have a good diet. Those that posted about digestive time and fat breaking down before muscle for energy are correct based on research. So whether to eat or not is more based on how it makes you feel versus any benefit/non-benefit factors. I know people before running that eat nothing to eating more than I ever would at a regular meal and everything in between. Personally I don't eat before most workouts (LSD's over 10 miles are the exception) but have 8-12oz of an electrolyte drink. I do get nauseated eating anything within 2 hours of running (and I will eat something small 2 hours before a longer LSD) but I can handle eating during a run fine. Everyone's a little different, just find what works for you.