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breakfast and coffee first for me. but this also requires i give myself a solid 1-2 hours prior to running. i don't mind it though. mornings are relaxing and nice - very dark, very quiet, very peaceful.

When I work out early in the mornings, I eat breakfast after.

Generally, I need about an hour rest after eating to work out effectively.

my preference would be to eat at least an hour before working out, however I have to wake up at 4am to workout in the morning so I eat after my morning workout.

When i do early morning work outs i eat after. Usually i have to be at the Gym by 5 AM.. which at 4:45 in the morning your lucky im walking out with a sports bra on.

If I don't eat, I don't seem to have energy to do the workout (might have more to do with not being awake yet lol). I usually get up at 4, drink coffee, reply to emails in bed...eat some pb and banana on toast or a protein shake...then head out at 6 to the gym. But...I really like mornings.

I don't typically eat anything until at least 11am but usually after 12. Intermittent Fasting has been my magic 'tool'. If I have a crazy intense workout before noon, I might eat a string cheese within an hour of the workout.

I wake up that early for work, but when I do morning workouts I always make sure to have a bigger dinner the night before with more protein and carbs. When I wake up I would drink a big cup of water, then go work out.

If you wake up hungry, have an apple or orange or something like that to start yourself off, then eat breakfast after the workout to help fuel the burn. I'd avoid coffee because it dehydrates you, and too much food will slow you down. A piece of fruit is perfect, gives you some sugar and gets you going.

Well if you wanted a bunch of people just telling you their very own personal preference then you got it in this thread.

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I think it's what works for you. Personally, if I work out right after I eat, I'm going to barf all over the floor. If I'm working out fasted, I'll take a pre-work out or drink BCAAs before. That's it.

You need to do what works best for you. If eating before your morning workout makes you feel sick, then the simple answer is not to eat before your workout.

If you feel like you might faint while working out because you don't have any fuel in your body, then you'll need to eat something. The majority of people that I know that workout early in the AM either don't eat anything or have something relatively small like a banana or protein bar prior to their workout and then have a bigger breakfast after.

Personally (and I workout in the AM 4-5 times a week), I do not eat anything before, but that is primarily because I take iron supplements and avoid anything containing calcium for 2 hours after taking them (I am not going to debate this with anyone, so please don't even bother if you disagree). The easiest way to do that is just not to eat anything. It works for me!

Fasted workouts FTW.

If I was waking up so early, I'd work out before eating, because I'm not hungry then and I can't exercise just after eating.

The days that I workout early (after i drop off my kids ) around 8.45 am... Ill usually chew some gum and brink a big cold water bottle with me. I hate working out on a full stomach.

I prefer to eat after. :flowerforyou:

I didn't eat before my 5 am workouts for the first few weeks...but then I started to not be able to work out as hard as I would like so I have a protien shake as I leave the house the breakfast when I get home.