Help with Morning Workout: Weights, Cardio: Eat Carbs Before I go???

[danapetersen]

Hello-

I am curious as to if I should be eating carb/ protein combo breakfast before I leave for the gym. What do you all suggest? Any input is appreciated!!! Here is a relative time frame I am working with.

8am Wake
8:20 Eat
1/2 cup oats: cals=150 fat=4 carbs=24 protein=4
1/2 cut egg beaters: cals=60 fat=0 carbs=2 protein=12
Total: cals=210 fat= 4 carbs= 26 protein=16

8:30 Leave
8:45 At Gym starting weights
9:10 break
9:15 Cardio
10:15 anything I anticipated to do that I missed

So what do you think?


Dana

[Classicjamz]

Yes - Complex carbs & protein combo before your workout - A more simple carb & protein combo post workout.

[danapetersen]

thanks

[Mindi911]

that looks a little too close time wise to your workout.

[May0819]

i agree w/ Mindi911 regarding the meal being too close to your workout time.

most of the time i lift in the a.m., dont know if this will help, but this is what i do:

wake up around 6/6:30: H2O, Cup of coffee

breakfst: 7/7:30: always a scoop of prot.pwdr regardless of what im eating... usually have a cup of oats, egg whites, cottage cheese OR protein pancakes w/ cottage cheese OR cup of kashi go lean w/ skim/soy milk.. also have a pice of fruit w/ breakfast or an apple 30min before gym. (your a.m. meal @ 210 cals would leave me starving ... mine is usually ~400)

i get to the gym about an hour/hour & 15min after a.m. meal.
warm up for 5-7min on a cardio machine then lift for about 45-55min. cool down for another 5-10min...
as soon as i get to my car i have my pwo shake. (i keep it all in an insulated bag..) consists of a scoop of whey (sometimes 1/2 scoop whey + 1/2 scoop soy),creatine, 8-10oz H2O & either a 1/2cup of simple carb cereal OR a large apple cinnamon rice cake OR 1/2 cup skim/skim.choc. milk... & most of the time a banana along w/ any of the above.
then about an hour & a 1/2 after this i have a reg. meal consisting of min.fat, lean protein & complex carb.

also ... it looks as tho you have about an hour after lifting of which your doing cardio. this would be optimum time (imo) to get in some pwo recovery.

good luck w/ everything!

[precisou2004]

thats what I usually have :


Oatmeal 1/3 c. : 120 - 2 - 20 - 2.5
Eggwhites 62.5g.: 30 - 0 - 0 - 7
Protein Powder 1 scoop : 128.5 - 0.5 - 0.5 - 30
Blueberries 1/2c. : 64 - 0.8 - 14.7 - 1.5
Toasts 2 slices : 110 - 0.5 - 21 - 6

The fruit varies from day to day though.

total : 452.5 cals - 3.8g. fat - 56.2g. carbs - 47g. protein

You do need to add a bit more to your breakfast IMHO (ok maybe not as much as me) but definitely have at least Id say 60 to 90 min between breakfast and ur workouts

jmo

[danapetersen]

Thanks so fat, I appreciate it. I actually have no problem eating this close to workout. In fact it works better for me that if I were to do earlier.

Maybe I am digesting the food faster than the normal person so to speak. I say this because I don't have my gallbladder any longer so the food is not filtered and drops straight into my stomach.

What do you think?

[Mindi911]

Originally Posted by danapetersen

Thanks so fat, I appreciate it. I actually have no problem eating this close to workout. In fact it works better for me that if I were to do earlier.

Maybe I am digesting the food faster than the normal person so to speak. I say this because I don't have my gallbladder any longer so the food is not filtered and drops straight into my stomach.

What do you think?

Your food automatically goes into your stomach regardless if you have a gallbladder or not the function of the gall bladder is to store bile and is connected to liver via the hepatic duct.

Bile is a substance which aids in the digestion of fat. As you know fat doesn't dissolve in water and needs something else to emulsify it.

Your liver produces bile and the gallbladder stores it until it is needed. When fat reaches the small instestine, bile is secreted by the gallbladder to aid in it's breakdown this all takes place in the duodenum which allows the fat to be digested.

[danapetersen]

Originally Posted by Mindi911

Your food automatically goes into your stomach regardless if you have a gallbladder or not the function of the gall bladder is to store bile and is connected to liver via the hepatic duct.

Bile is a substance which aids in the digestion of fat. As you know fat doesn't dissolve in water and needs something else to emulsify it.

Your liver produces bile and the gallbladder stores it until it is needed. When fat reaches the small instestine, bile is secreted by the gallbladder to aid in it's breakdown this all takes place in the duodenum which allows the fat to be digested.

Thanks Mindi!

[Mindi911]

Originally Posted by danapetersen

Thanks Mindi!

Pleasure but you know what if it works for you and you aren't experiencing any problems then I say don't change what's not broken.

[danapetersen]

Originally Posted by Mindi911

Pleasure but you know what if it works for you and you aren't experiencing any problems then I say don't change what's not broken.

Yeah, I think like anything else, I'll give it a few weeks and see what kind of progress is made weather it be positive or negative and go from there!

[Mindi911]

Originally Posted by danapetersen

Yeah, I think like anything else, I'll give it a few weeks and see what kind of progress is made weather it be positive or negative and go from there!

Absolutely that's what this game is all about trial and error, finding out what works for ourselves.

[Amanda76]

I eat similar amounts of food about 30 minutes before I hit the gym and am fine. I actually will have problems if I start moving my meal much further away from my workout than that (within an hour and I'm usually okay).

If my meals are larger than (what amounts to about) 20g of protein and a half cup of carbs and some fruit or veggie, then I do have to wait longer before working out, but I also expect to end up needing food IMMEDIATELY after. I very rarely feel like I need to use protein shakes and a day where my meal was too far away from the start of my workout would be a day that I'd come home, slam some protein and then prepare a real meal. My body DOES let me know when it needs food! LOL

Sometimes if I'm kinda questioning how far my meal is from my workout, I'll eat a piece of fruit immediately before I go in and bring my protein shake with me in case I start feeling off in the middle of my workout. But I've gotten pretty good at cushioning my workouts with real food.

[danapetersen]

Originally Posted by Amanda76

I eat similar amounts of food about 30 minutes before I hit the gym and am fine. I actually will have problems if I start moving my meal much further away from my workout than that (within an hour and I'm usually okay).

If my meals are larger than (what amounts to about) 20g of protein and a half cup of carbs and some fruit or veggie, then I do have to wait longer before working out, but I also expect to end up needing food IMMEDIATELY after. I very rarely feel like I need to use protein shakes and a day where my meal was too far away from the start of my workout would be a day that I'd come home, slam some protein and then prepare a real meal. My body DOES let me know when it needs food! LOL

Sometimes if I'm kinda questioning how far my meal is from my workout, I'll eat a piece of fruit immediately before I go in and bring my protein shake with me in case I start feeling off in the middle of my workout. But I've gotten pretty good at cushioning my workouts with real food.

Thanks!

[goldylocs37]

Originally Posted by May0819

i agree w/ Mindi911 regarding the meal being too close to your workout time.

most of the time i lift in the a.m., dont know if this will help, but this is what i do:

wake up around 6/6:30: H2O, Cup of coffee

breakfst: 7/7:30: always a scoop of prot.pwdr regardless of what im eating... usually have a cup of oats, egg whites, cottage cheese OR protein pancakes w/ cottage cheese OR cup of kashi go lean w/ skim/soy milk.. also have a pice of fruit w/ breakfast or an apple 30min before gym. (your a.m. meal @ 210 cals would leave me starving ... mine is usually ~400)

i get to the gym about an hour/hour & 15min after a.m. meal.
warm up for 5-7min on a cardio machine then lift for about 45-55min. cool down for another 5-10min...
as soon as i get to my car i have my pwo shake. (i keep it all in an insulated bag..) consists of a scoop of whey (sometimes 1/2 scoop whey + 1/2 scoop soy),creatine, 8-10oz H2O & either a 1/2cup of simple carb cereal OR a large apple cinnamon rice cake OR 1/2 cup skim/skim.choc. milk... & most of the time a banana along w/ any of the above.
then about an hour & a 1/2 after this i have a reg. meal consisting of min.fat, lean protein & complex carb.

also ... it looks as tho you have about an hour after lifting of which your doing cardio. this would be optimum time (imo) to get in some pwo recovery.

good luck w/ everything!

Good advice. What would you suggest eating upon waking up at 5:30 a.m and having to workout at 6:00 a.m? Would rather sleep than get up an hour early to eat.

thanks

[May0819]

again... different things work for different people. sometimes people can handle oats in a protein shake, etc.
if you only have a half an hr i would suggest:
scoop of proteinpwdr mixed w/ H2O + fruit (like an apple...)

Originally Posted by goldylocs37

Good advice. What would you suggest eating upon waking up at 5:30 a.m and having to workout at 6:00 a.m? Would rather sleep than get up an hour early to eat.

thanks