Cardio before breakfast

I dont like doing this. I eat something little to get my going before my morning work outs!

i normally eat a piece of peanut butter toast before i work out in the morning, that way i am not starving. if i eat before i work out i feel sick, or i end up feeling hungry afterwards. hope that helps!

always eat..a carb is good before you workout and protein afterwards. You dont have to eat a full breakfast, but something is important....

I get up at 5:15 am during the week to go for my walks, or 30 Shred. I can not eat that early! Don't know why, just cant. I usually don't have my oatmeal until 8:30. But that's just me.
Everyone's different.
Find what works for you. As far as it burning the fat faster - I would assume that's a load of crud...

So I guess no one here is really in favor of the cardio fast? I'm reading up about it and it's a bit controversial, the upside is that it will tap into fat stores but the bad news is that you can also lose muscle in the process. I guess I'll have to experiment a bit and see how it works for me, 'don't knock it 'til you try it' so to speak

you won't lose muscle if you are strength training, and you are eating a good protein enriched breakfast fterwards. The trick to not eating beforehand is to actually have nothing..not tea, not juice, nothing, your body has to use fat stores since it has no fuel from food to use as energy. It's a tried and true method, and it's helped quite a few of my clients including myself lose weight. If I have an early AM class I don't eat beforehand, it's really a personal choice. Good to see that you're researching it.

My best friend suggested that I should do my cardio workouts first thing in the morning before eating breakfast if I want to lose the fat faster. I'm in the process of looking it up on the web a bit, but was just wondering if any agrees or disagrees with this method?

Some people can manage this, some can't. Personally, I have never tried it, mainly because I can't exercise first thing anyway, good grief it is all I can do to hobble to the toilet first thing and then the kettle, let alone pound away on the treadmill :laugh:

The site below may interest you on this subject:

http://medicmagic.net/exercise-before-breakfast-burns-fat-faster.html

It says in the article that it does burn more fat even though the performance is decreased. An empty stomach means adrenaline levels are increased and insulin is low and the ratio is appropriate to break down more muscle fatty acid.

:noway: - think I might force myself to try this now!

I am usually starving right when I get out of bed, so I couldn't do this. I then have to run off and do other stuff throughout the day, so I work out at night. I like working out a couple hours before bed because then I don't have as many problems going to sleep as i am ready to crash. But then again, I am a night owl by nature, I'm sure my wife could do this if she wanted to as she is a morning person.

I use to do this when I first started working out. After a couple mins into a good work out....I'd feel like I was just gonna fall over. Then I started eating a lil...just a lil before the work out, and it was okay for awhile, but every now n then I'd still get that feeling like i'm can't do anymore. Infact, just the last two weeks, i've put more into eating breakfast before I run out to the gym. I wouldn't recommend it.

I get up early and go. if I stop to get something to eat, I'll just keep eating. :-) This is working for me, and I'm 4 months in...if it stops working, I'll try changing it up. But, if it ain't broke, I'm not going to fix it. Whatever allows you to be consistent and feel good is probably what is right for you. Try it both ways and see which you like better!

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KGB/is_1_5/ai_n6097710/

I've read up on this before, but I couldn't find the article I read on it that was really good. So, here's another. It basically says that yes, perhaps you burn fat more. However, you won't have as much energy, and won't be able to work out as long or as hard as you would if you ate an hour or two before. I've also read that not eating before a workout leads to your body breaking down more muscular type tissue for energy as opposed to fat reserves, and have a little sugar in your blood for instant energy allows your body to get at your fat reserves more effectively. But, this is just what I'm remembering, I'm not an expert.

I eat a small banana around 6am and start at the gym at about 6.30am, have a protein shake around 8am once I'm done and showered then have a bowl of cereal (usually weetabix or shredded whear) at around half 9. I find if I don't have that first banana I can't push as hard in the gym and I feel dizzy when I'm done.

I think it just comes down to personal preference. I have always been taught that exercising with atleast a 2 hour gap from food would burn fat quicker than if I ate before.

I don't eat before my morning workouts and I don't suffer the light-headedness or anything BUT I'm not hungry when I first wake up anyway and usually have a protein shake straight after my workout then have breakfast a couple of hours later.

I deffinately think it has it's benefits working out before eating but if your body doesn't like it then just have a small snack before hand
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Please have some protein before you workout. My husband didn't a few weeks ago and passed out on the gym floor due to low blood sugar (he is not diabetic).

The theory is that since you have no food in your system to use for fuel, your body will use more fat reserves than if you had eaten and your body would use more of the breakfast. Yes it is true that you will burn a few extra percentage of fat if you don't eat first. However they don't bother to tell you that it won't make a difference at the end of the day.

You burned extra fat during the workout because you didn't eat. So after you eat breakfast your body goes about its normal energy consumption and voila, it gets its energy from breakfast instead of fat reserves because now breakfast is available whereas if you ate before exercising it wouldn't. Net result by lunch: no difference.

The downside to this technique is what others have said; less effective workouts that burn fewer total calories and actually fewer total fat calories just to burn 65% of the calories from fat instead of 60% from fat. This is similar to the "fat burning zone" recommendation that you keep your intensity low to increase percentage of calories burned from fat high even though total fat calories burned is higher from more intense workouts even if the percentage is lower.