What's the primary purpose of your cardio?

it is impossible to train at high levels of intensity when the body is in a hypoglycemic state. you are short changing yourself but not consuming any carbs before your early am training sessions.

also, i thought if you consumed carbs before working out, your body would use that as fuel instead of your fat stores.

to burn fat



the problem is my time restraints. early mornings are the only time i can workout. i have to get up and go STRAIGHT to the gym in order to get a work out in and get back home in time to get ready for work.

if i eat anything and immediatly workout, it makes me sick. i don't have time to eat and then let it settle. what can i do?
also, i thought if you consumed carbs before working out, your body would use that as fuel instead of your fat stores.

to burn fat

the problem is my time restraints. early mornings are the only time i can workout. i have to get up and go STRAIGHT to the gym in order to get a work out in and get back home in time to get ready for work.

if i eat anything and immediately workout, it makes me sick. i don't have time to eat and then let it settle. what can i do?

also, i thought if you consumed carbs before working out, your body would use that as fuel instead of your fat stores.

In short, no. Also, as LAM said, the training intensity is important -- taking in some food allows you to train effectively.

What kind of cardio are you doing?

if time is that short then you have to use simple sugars from various fruits and juices. high intensity training in a hypoglycemic state is really going to keep cortisol levels high for hours after the training session. since fruits all contain a variety of sugars there is always some glucose bases sugars that can hit the bloodstream pretty rapidly after consumption. you could even use some maltodextrin before training with no fears of spiking insulin as the onset of exercise prevents that from ever occurring.

Well, first train your stomach and body to workout after a short time from eatng (not less than 20-30 minutes ofcourse and it has to be a fast digested meal), because our lives are stressful, you don't always have the chance to get 2 hours before working out to eat and rest and watch tv before you go to th gym, for me when I workout AM I am too lazy and most of times I am late to prepare any food, so I drink a whey protein shake with milk and hit he gym, some times I also eat an apple, you can prepare some oats/milk/honey/protein powder an leave in the fridge till morning then eat immediately when u wake up, one of the best solutions too for me is to drink a whey shake with milk and honey and if nesaccary drink some orange juice, easy on the stomach and won't make you sick..

Eat a banana and fill you belly with ephedrine

also, i thought if you consumed carbs before working out, your body would use that as fuel instead of your fat stores.

the body always uses substrates from proteins (amino acids), carbohydrates (sugars) and fats (lipids) for energy. the only thing that changes are the ratios of each used depending on the bodies current energy demands and the availability of these nutrients. when the body is at rest and/or performing low intensity exercise free fatty acids (FFA's) are the primary energy source used by skeletal muscle. as the level of intensity in exercise increases the body can not longer metabolize FFA's in the muscle cell at a high enough rate to meet the bodies current energy demands so it will then utilize more glycogen to form ATP. energy derived from proteins/amino acids is always the lowest of the 3 macro groups as it takes the longest and is the most inefficient energy source in terms of moles of ATP created per molecule.

ok so back to exercise..you always want to exercise at the highest levels of intensity possible to constantly make progress in terms of strength, endurance, etc. basically each training session you want to perform more "work" than the last in the same amount of time. with cardio you want to run further; travel a greater distance, this forces the body to adapt. with resistance you want to lift more weight or perform more reps in the same amount of time as well, once again performing more work in the same amount of time, forcing the body to adapt. now since high intensity exercise depletes muscle glycogen stores this allows you to consume more carbs in the diet and allows the body to partition nutrients more efficiently after feeding. a person that trains at a low level of intensity doesn't deplete muscle glycogen stores so when they consume carbs in the diet it doesn't take much to replenish those stores increasing the potential for fat storage from spill over, excess glucose will be converted lipids and stored in the fat cell.

after the conclusion of high intensity exercise the body will attempt to restore itself to the pre-exercise state. this causes the body to intake more oxygen which in turn increases the rate of fatty acid oxidation, the metabolic rate increases. so the higher the level of intensity that a person can exercise at the longer it will take the body to restore itself to the pre-exercise state. This is commonly referred to as the excess postexercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) and lasts lasts for hours post-exercise.

* anyone that states that you want to target "fat" for energy during exercise doesn't know jack squat about how energy systems work in the body in the rested state or in response to exercise.

the body always uses substrates from proteins (amino acids), carbohydrates (sugars) and fats (lipids) for energy. the only thing that changes are the ratios of each used depending on the bodies current energy demands and the availability of these nutrients. when the body is at rest and/or performing low intensity exercise free fatty acids (FFA's) are the primary energy source used by skeletal muscle. as the level of intensity in exercise increases the body can not longer metabolize FFA's in the muscle cell at a high enough rate to meet the bodies current energy demands so it will then utilize more glycogen to form ATP. energy derived from proteins/amino acids is always the lowest of the 3 macro groups as it takes the longest and is the most inefficient energy source in terms of moles of ATP created per molecule.

ok so back to exercise..you always want to exercise at the highest levels of intensity possible to constantly make progress in terms of strength, endurance, etc. basically each training session you want to perform more "work" than the last in the same amount of time. with cardio you want to run further; travel a greater distance, this forces the body to adapt. with resistance you want to lift more weight or perform more reps in the same amount of time as well, once again performing more work in the same amount of time, forcing the body to adapt. now since high intensity exercise depletes muscle glycogen stores this allows you to consume more carbs in the diet and allows the body to partition nutrients more efficiently after feeding. a person that trains at a low level of intensity doesn't deplete muscle glycogen stores so when they consume carbs in the diet it doesn't take much to replenish those stores increasing the potential for fat storage from spill over, excess glucose will be converted lipids and stored in the fat cell.

after the conclusion of high intensity exercise the body will attempt to restore itself to the pre-exercise state. this causes the body to intake more oxygen which in turn increases the rate of fatty acid oxidation, the metabolic rate increases. so the higher the level of intensity that a person can exercise at the longer it will take the body to restore itself to the pre-exercise state. This is commonly referred to as the excess postexercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) and lasts lasts for hours post-exercise.

* anyone that states that you want to target "fat" for energy during exercise doesn't know jack squat about how energy systems work in the body in the rested state or in response to exercise.