Too much food before workout, stomach upset?

Ooh! No. That's never happened to me. If anything, I need to force myself to eat a little more before I work out. Good job powering through! I could not have.

No point in powering through it when you can try to prevent it I just eat appropriately to whatever amount of time I've got before a workout. If I don't leave enough time, I'll get cramps and a couple of times I got sick and started dry retching during a ride or run lol. I make sure I lift either before lunch or well after dinner. You can Google some suggestions of what to eat in the time you have. It's generally plenty of carbs for me, and protein and carbs afterwards.

This is just for morning workouts really, but what works for me is: If it's 3-4 hours til my workout I will eat quite a bit, like a large banana, cup of cooked oats, honey and yogurt. Or two slices of toast with jam, yogurt, raisins etc.
if it's 90 minutes-2 hours just one slice of toast with jam and perhaps small fruit for example, and if its only 30 minutes before I try not to have much, maybe half a sports drink or a gel. That's not something I do often, though.
I tend to not get up very early, so I normally go for the 90-mins to 2 hours option or the 30 mins before options as opposed to the 3-4 hours before...I only get up at the crack of dawn and do that on race days.

Same here, first thing out of bed - stretch then work out. Water during, protein shake right after, then food if I'm hungry.

I generally work out at 5am - so I have nothing beforehand (crawl out of bed, put on clothes, head to my home gym downstairs lol).

When I've had to change my schedule, and I've worked out too close to a meal, yep it gets a little uncomfortable. I manage to power through it, but it's not good lol

I just workout better on an empty stomach.

I do, however, make my daughter have a light snack before training (she's a squad swimmer and 11yo). But that's usually just a handful of fruit (once again, at 5am lol we have early morning issues :laugh: ) and then she devours a huge breakfast when she gets home. For her, I've found she needs something beforehand or she gets seriously tired and grumpy :glasses:

What I do after every prework out meal. Siri set timer for one hour beep

When I workout in the morning, I wake up at 6AM, prepare some tea, small portion (35g) of oats with a scoop (25g) of whey and some strawberries (50g).
Finish the meal, leave home by bike at 6:30'ish AM and hit the gym at 7AM.

Eating fat in the morning before I workout tends to upset my stomach and having no meal is a no go for me when training heavy.

When I go to the gym in the early evening (6PM), I have a bigger low-fat meal (carb, protein and veggies for example) about 1,5 to 2 hours before.


In the end, you will have to find out what works best for you. As long as you get your daily goals in you will be fine.