Thread: Honey preworkout

honey is sugar. no good.

depends on your goals and what your workout it like.

Honey= fructose.

Well I'm trying gain weight(preferably in the form of muscle)...started out at 175 (don't know %bf starting but it was in the high 20's) then did a lot of cardio with little to no weight-training for a good year and dropped to an all time low of 138lbs, probably hit single digit %bf but bleed away too much mus-kle...way too low for a guy 5' 10" )

So now I've been slowly adding weight but keeping %bf fairly low up to about 145lb at about 10% (but that's a guess until I pick up some calipers). Would like to climb to about 155-160 slowly not in any big rush. Figured since I'm trying to fit some cals in I figured honey wouldn't hurt too badly. Sugar and me have never had too much of a problem (ie: I'd eat a lot and other than a rush I wouldn't really gain weight from it or at least it distributed well . It took many years to hit 175lb and that's when I ate badly and simply too much of it.

I'm wondering more about the sugar in the morning causing burnout part way through the workout. I find that somedays I have trouble getting my intensity up in the morning. I know honey offers some benefit to endurance athletes....just not so sure if it fits in weight-training. My workout only lasts 1 hour, or so.

I typically train 2 on/ 1 off
cardio 2x /week sometimes 3

I would nix the honey. As it stands your entire pre-wrkout meal is loaded with carbs (protein/oat bar, apple, yogurt). I would try and just eat more of a balanced meal with protein, carbs and fat.

Yeah I was kinda leaning that way.... damn, the sweet taste was nice.

More fat, well I was thinking about that but since it's my only meal coming off a night's sleep I was kinda afraid the fat is going to hold things up and I'd be working out somewhat fasted. Figuring out early am workouts is a bit of a challenge

Right now it's pre-workout meal
workout
PWO shake
off to work
PWO meal (usually a balanced meal of oats, protein, and fats) about 1~1.5 hours later.

i put honey in shakes post workout on a cut, as i was told to.......hasn't seemed to do any harm....wouldn't honey sugar be the same as fruit sugar? i mean, i put tropicana in shakes and eat fruit every chance i get and fruit is loaded with natural sugar isn't it?

Tropicana would be fairly loaded with sugar but a glass of fruit juice is like getting 3 or 4 servings of fruit in one go and next to zero fiber.

I think fruit (most fruits) are more water, fiber and nutrients than sugar generally.
The sugar in fruit is a little overblown.

As for honey's sugar....yeah it's fructose and glucose ( about 50:50 )
it's just calorie dense...like 1 TB is 65 cals.

the problem w/ fructose is that it goes only to restoring liver glycogen and not towards muscle glycogen, which is what you use during your work out.

I'd try to keep fructose/sugar down preworkout to keep from crashing after the insulin spike.