Exercise before or after breakfast

I always eat before exercising, especially in the morning... I think it is really important because you risk the chance of passing out if you don't.

I've heard good and bad about both. I always workout before eating though. I've heard that your body is a calorie torching machine for about an hour after you workout so I usually wait 20 minutes or so after and drink a big glass of water and then eat. But some people do like to eat before exercising to give them energy. So its up to you I guess. Good Luck! :flowerforyou:

Before. It is difficult to jog on a full stomach and I feel sluggish after eating.

I always eat about 30 mins before exercising just so i know ive got the energy x



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You should always eat a little something before a workout, more importantly if your going to be doing some weight training, or some higher intensity cardio. When you wake up in the morning, your glycogen stores are low & your system is in a catabolic state. That means your body will start breaking down muscle tissue.

If you're doing steady state low intensity, it's not as important as the body will then use fat stores, but I would still eat something small. Maybe split your breakfast in 2...eat half of it before & after your workout.

I will have something small, like half a banana or a granola bar. Drink water.. usually 20 minutes before working out. Then I work out and have a good breakfast afterworks. I find that I am too faint if I exercise on an empty stomach, but feel like I'm going to throw up if I eat a full breakfast.

It all depends on the person. You have to find out what works for you. I don't think there is a right or wrong thing to do though.. Not that I know of anyway.

I get up and work out then eat. If I don't do it that way I won't work out. Plus, they do it in basic training, they get up and do PT and then eat and not many of them pass out from it. Plus what I do is like half the intensity of the army, but I also do the same workout there is and artical that says that people working out on and empty stomach works out for less amounts of time...i do the exact same full or not.

http://www.helium.com/items/448303-will-exercise-before-breakfast-burn-more-fat

I was eating before but then finding i was more hungry afterwards. So now I drink a liter of water, do my work out, and then eat my oatmeal.

I think that you need to figure out what works for you. If I exercise in the morning I find that I have more energy for a better workout if I eat a little something - not a full breakfast. I'll usually have something like a yogurt or one of those snack size Zone bars. Just enough energy to get through the workout but not so much that I am exercising with a full stomach.

I wake up, drink a cup of coffee, workout pretty strenuously, but always make sure I've had a shake or some type of protein within 30 min of my workout. Then I eat breakfast within an hour after that. This is what works for me. My trainer is always pushing me to eat before he trains me, but the two times I actually got up 1.5 hours before my session and ate something light, I threw it up within thirty minutes of starting to workout. My stomach just didn't like it. I personally think it would be healthier to eat before....but I couldn't handle it!