Should I Exercise Before Or After Breakfast
Olivia Luz
Especially if you have a high intensity workout with lots of intervals strength training and heavy weights.
Participants who exercised before breakfast burned twice as much fat as those who exercised after eating the same meal. Research findings are mixed. A study published in the british journal of nutrition found that people can burn up to 20 percent more body fat by exercising before breakfast but other experts claim that depriving the body of fuel before a workout can result in a loss of muscle mass. When people fast overnight they have.
When training there may be a benefit to fasting before exercise. If you don t have the time to eat your breakfast and workout after 2 hours i would suggest having a smoothie or a snack before you workout something that s light and easy to process like banana protein shake or a protein bar. Whether you workout before or after breakfast makes little difference for casual exercise. The participants were asked to walk for 60 minutes at 60 per cent maximum oxygen consumption first on an empty stomach and secondly two hours after consuming a high calorie carbohydrate rich.
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