Eat Like This Before Exercise – Prepare Your ‘Pre-Workout Meal’ to Double Your Training Effectiveness
For friends who exercise, most are concerned about what to eat after training, but often ignore the 'pre-workout meal'. In fact, consuming the right amount of nutrients before exercise can not only allow you to perform better, but also help you gain better training results after training.
The concept of 'pre-workout meal' should be familiar to those who are passionate about weight training. You might think that eating before training, with food still digesting, how can you exercise? When we start high-intensity weight training, the muscles in the body will use stored glycogen as fuel. When the glycogen reserves in the body are insufficient, it may start to break down protein from the muscles to convert into energy. Therefore, supplementing nutrients appropriately before exercise can provide the body with more energy to withstand training, allowing you to perform every action fully!
What should I eat before training?
As fuel, glycogen will begin to generate when we eat and digest it, so we can appropriately consume carbohydrates before training as a supplement to our body's fuel. At the same time, protein intake is also an important part. Carbohydrates can increase blood sugar levels in the body and also help break down protein into amino acids, not only reducing muscle loss during exercise, but also improving your recovery speed after training. Therefore, the pre-workout meal should be a combination of carbohydrates and protein.
In terms of selection, it is recommended to choose easily absorbed carbohydrates such as bananas, sweet potatoes, whole wheat bread, and oatmeal, avoid long digestion times affecting the speed of absorption; protein can choose milk, yogurt, eggs, or a high-protein whey drink is also a good choice. Everyone's body has a different ability to digest and absorb, so you can try to see which food is most suitable for your body.
You can eat about 1 hour before training to give the body enough time to digest, and you should also control the portion to avoid overeating, which can cause blood sugar to rise, affecting the energy supply and making it difficult to exert force.
In addition to eating, drinking is also essential!
Besides eating, you also need to drink enough water.
