Carbs before a workout

catrinafinney34
catrinafinney34 Posts: 44 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
I eat 37 carbs before a workout and I burned 670 calories, did I burn those carbs I ate before my work out? I ate 1 hr before going to the gym

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  • sosteach
    sosteach Posts: 260 Member
    Depends on how many calories the carbs were. Plug it in to mfp...it will tell you
  • catrinafinney34
    catrinafinney34 Posts: 44 Member
    I ate 434 calories before hand and 37 carbs was in it... I'm just asking if I burned them doing my 600 calorie burn....
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,399 Member
    catrinafinney34 wrote: »
    I ate 434 calories before hand and 37 carbs was in it... I'm just asking if I burned them doing my 600 calorie burn....

    That depends on your workout. I'd say unless the workout was napping, you easily burned more than the carbs you ate before. The higher the intensity of the workout, the more calories (as a percentage) you burn from carbs vs fats.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Yes.
  • rybo
    rybo Posts: 5,424 Member
    Unless they were very easily digested sugars, no. But it's pretty irrelevant whether those were the calories you burned or not
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    What was your total energy deficit at the end of the day?
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    It would depend on the type of food you ate.

    Different carbs digest at different rates.
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    I ate 270g carbs before my workout last night, and then couldn't work out lol
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  • Chadxx
    Chadxx Posts: 1,199 Member
    mmapags wrote: »
    Maybe. It doesn't matter exactly what calories you burned in your workout. All that matter is that in a day or a week or a month you burn more than you eat.
    trigden1991 wrote: »
    What was your total energy deficit at the end of the day?
    vismal wrote: »
    I think the more important question is why does it matter to you whether the energy utilized for your workout came from your preworkout meal or was from previously stored fuel in the form of glycogen, fat, or both?

    Exactly, what is with the concern over a few carbs? Carbs don't make you fat. Too many calories make you fat.
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