What should you eat before a cardio workout?
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It is most effective to do cardio in the morning on an empty stomack. This i what all the current research indicates. However i would drink some water before during and after.
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Your legs get shaky after you work out because the microfibers in your legs muscles tear as you are working out (this is necessary in order to build up muscle).\nAs for eating, you should try not to eat right before your workout or you might feel sick. Proteins and carbohydrates like pasta are usually good for energy, if you leave enough time to digest (at least an hour.)\nAs for burning fat, it takes 20 minutes of exercise to start burning. You should set your exercise time at about 20 minutes to start and gradually increase the time from there, by about one or two minutes.(make sure you leave time for your muscles to repair themselves though, or you might get a strained muscle). Working out 3-4 times a week is generally good.\nYou can eat reasonably during the day as well, you should just try to count the calories. Fruits and vegetables are great low calorie foods, but you should make sure your eating foods from every food group. I hope this helps. Good luck.
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Okay, first, go to a Dr. Before you start ANY diet or exercise plan, you should check with a Dr. Now, cut as much fat, particularly animal fat, as you can from your diet, while avoiding non-fat foods, go low-fat, or reduced fat. Replace animal fats with Omega-3 fatty acids. Cut simple carbs from your diet, replace them with complex carbs. Eat plenty of green, leafy vegetables. Drink 8 glasses of water a day, cut sodas from your diet. Mon, Wed, and Fri, do strength training, i.e. anaerobic exercises, Tue, Thur, and Sat, do an aerobic work out, and rest on Sun. Do a stretching regimen, and warm up before your workouts, and a stretching regimen and a cool down after. Okay all of this with your Doc. Oh, and drink a lot of water before you eat, and eat a salad before your main course for lunch and dinner.  If you have the dressing on the side, or go with a vinaigrette, it has almost no calories, and fills you up.  Oh, and eat plenty of protien, it takes a while to digest, so you stay full longer.
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Light breakfast like a banana or other fruit if you decide to eat before running.  Always drink water 30-minutes to 1 hour before the rune and after.  During the run you should not drink as it will weigh you down.  If you bring water slosh it around for a second then spit it out.  This way you get some refreshment and can continue with little weight added.  \n\nTake it from a Marine....\n\n\nNEVER DRINK  A SHAKEb or MILK..... it is way to $$$$ thick.
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No...you lift weights before cardio.\n\n"Glycogen stores are stores of energy that your body uses during weight training and cardiovascular exercise. Although, during weight training glycogen stores are the only energy source used. Thus, completing your cardiovascular routine before weight training will substantially deplete your energy (glycogen) stores needed to complete a proper weight training program. Also, completing your weight training before your cardiovascular program significantly decreases you glycogen stores. So, when you begin your cardiovascular training your body burns less glycogen and more of your stored fat. In summary, to reach you optimal fat burning stages and to have the proper energy to utilize an exercise program, complete your weight training before you cardiovascular training. "
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Exercise more, eat healthier, and drink more water. It's important to drink water and not caffeinated beverages like soda because then you're drinking calories that you're not burning off right away. When exercising, be sure to keep your heart rate up in order for your heart to get used to the work so you can work out longer and harder in the future.
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1.  Stretch adequately before exercise\n2.  Stay hydrated; drink a lot of water\n3.  Make sure you're getting enough potassium (found in bananas, other fruits and veggies, meat and dairy)
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cardio training ,no tablets work or cutting down on food alone .side by side low fat foods ,good cardio workout ,swim,bike,run ask at local gym.....go slow!!!!!!!  the first ten minutes of cardio burn nothing!!! get an mp3 player headfones
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Run every morning BEFORE breakfast.  Drink lots of water and cut down on carbs (pastas, breads, rice).  Working out before breakfast is 4 times better than working out in the evening.
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Ideally, nothing, for a short morning jog: you'll start burning fat nearly immediately. If you are running two or three miles, quick sugar food like bananas will prevent you from cramping down/fainting, if that happens to you. If you run long distance, pasta or other slow-release sugars are best.\n\nThe links offer various options, depending on your metabolism and preference:
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What kind of workout?  I'm assuming weight training.  Ideally you would consume protein and water during your exercise, then shortly afterward consume more protein and some simple carbs.\n\nThis might look like sipping half a 20g Protein Whey Protein during the hour you work out (don't train much longer than that) and half 10-15 minutes later along with an apple or similiar.  Then about 45 minutes later eat a more substantial meal of lean meat (chicken is good) and complex carbs (brown rice is good).   \n\n18g protein is decent.  Many suppliments will give insane amounts per serving... the problem is the body can only use so much protein at a time.  Make sure to drink plenty of water, btw, if you go on protein suppliments.  This is to protect your kidneys and because water is good in general.  Nuts aren't the greatest source of protein for this purpose for a variety of reasons.\n\nAlternatives to whey include soy based and others.  One good type has a lot of casein (which you can also get from milk).\n\nRemember pre workout nutrition is vital too and that post workout nutrition extends well after the meal.  Many shakes will offer things like glutamine,branch chained amino acids, etc... these are good things.
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Eat less and exercise more.  It's not really quick, but it is effective.  Eat a healthy balanced diet with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean meat.  For exercise, do both cardio exercise like walking, running, swimming, or whatever you like and resistance training like pilates or weight lifting.
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This may help you a bit. Do your cardio on an empty stomack, this will cause your body to directly target fat deposites for energy but you have to eat within 10 minutes after your workout or your body will seek protiens which would be bad because the more muscle you have (Even a little) the more calories you burn when doing nothing.\n\nDo the cardio at least 3 times a week for 30 to 60 minutes (Do not exceed 60 minutes unless you do it twice a day 60 each). Purchase a HRM (See link) this will make your heart rate show up on any polar compatable machine (Most are compatable). Keep your heart rate at in the fat burning zone or higher. Higher will burn more calories hence more fat but just no as efficiently, i.e. the percentage of carbs burned with increase as your intensity rises.\n\nSwitch some of the things in your died. Throw out all of your bread and buy Ezekiel bread. Limit your dairy, choose brown rice and sweet potatoes as opposed to the regular types. Stop eating junk food and snacks and hold your breath when driving by fast food resturaunts lol.\n\nThe most effective way to burn fat and furm up is to incorporate some form of resistance training into your workout. You would actually see more results if you cut back on your cardio to 4 or 5 times a week and hit the wieghts 3 times per week. Speak with a certified fitness trainer, they will set you in the right directions. \n\nGood luck.
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Cardio, cardio, cardio. This helps you with the simple philosophy behind fat loss: Burn more calories than you take in. If your goal is fat loss, incorporate 4–6, 30–60-minute sessions per week into your training schedule.\n\nOf iron and sweat. If your goal is to lean out, follow your weight training with cardio. Since lifting depletes glycogen stores, your body is more likely to use fat as its first fuel source during cardio. Also, the combination of the two results in a higher caloric burn postworkout.\n\nTread heavily. What’s the best exercise and intensity to burn maximal fat? Researchers found that jogging on the treadmill at about 70% of your maximal heart rate, or MHR (subtract your age from 220 and multiply by 0.7 for your heart rate in beats per minute), was optimal, burning about 40 grams of fat per hour of exercise. Going above or below this intensity burned significantly less fat, as did pedaling on a stationary cycle, regardless of intensity.\n\nRun hungry. If you can stomach getting up earlier, perform cardio before your first meal of the day. Your body is most likely to use fat as the first energy source because your glycogen stores are depleted. If you’re concerned with muscle loss, take 10–20 grams of whey protein before your session, but stay away from carbs.\n\nPost-cardio burn. Following aerobic exercise, your resting metabolic rate remains elevated for anywhere from 60 minutes to about 12 hours, depending on the intensity and duration of the exercise session.\n\nMove outdoors. Try your next outdoor run on sand, which is more difficult than running on harder surfaces like cement. It’s easier on the joints as well, but wear shoes to avoid stress fractures and protect your feet from glass. Running on grass is also a welcome relief to joints and arches.\n\nTaper off. Instead of starting slow and building up speed, do your high-intensity cardio early in your workout and taper off to a slow finish to burn significantly more fat. After a 2–3-minute warm-up, immediately kick it into high gear (80%–85% max heart rate) for 15–20 minutes before slowing down (60%–65% max heart rate) for the last 10–20 minutes.\n\nVary your cardio. Whether you’re lifting weights or doing cardio, the trick is to keep your body from adapting to what you’re doing. Regularly changing your cardio mode is the best way to keep your body responding to your efforts.\n\nInterval for success. Unless you’re a highly conditioned athlete, you can’t maintain a very intense pace for very long, so the best way to improve your aerobic fitness and burn fat is with intervals. That is, you alternate very intense periods of work with lower-intensity sessions in which you recover.\n\nNo butts. Smoking deprives cells of the oxygen they need to maximize metabolism, keeps muscles from repairing themselves after exercise and makes cardio a lot tougher. Plus, your smoke-scented clothes are sure to irritate fellow gym rats.\n\nFidget to fight fat. Are you a fidgeter? Maybe you should be. Several studies have shown that toe-tappers, while completely annoying at the office, will burn more calories over the course of the day than the stationary man.\n\nNUTRITION\n\nStay hydrated. Active individuals actually require more water and should aim to consume roughly 1 gallon per day to avoid becoming dehydrated. And if you’re one of those people who hates drinking water, consider this: Dehydrated individuals burn less fat than their well-watered counterparts.\n\nEat more frequently. Eating 5–6 small meals a day as opposed to “three squares a day” causes your metabolism to work constantly. Eating larger meals, on the other hand, slows your metabolism and forces leftover calories to be stored as fat.\n\nEat protein. Since muscle-building is the fastest route to slim down, you want to make sure that your protein consumption is enough to keep up with your weight training. Eat too little protein and your gains could be much slower. Get 1–1
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some people need to have small snack before working out for the energy which would be 30minutes-1 Hour before working out.\n\nSome eat after working out as well:\n\nThat's the time to load up on carbs-After Exercise\n\nA sweaty workout depletes the stores of fuel (called glyeogen) in your muscles. So replenish them by chugging some OJ or eating half a bagel. And do it quickly: studies show your body makes new glyeogen most readily in the 15 minutes after exercising. if you miss that window, you might not be as strong for your next workout. To get an extra glycogen boost, throw in some protein, too-like peanut butter on crackers, or a few slices of turkey on wheat bread. protein also helps repair and build your muscles after strength training. No snacks available ? At least drink plenty of water or a sports drink to replace what you sweat out : from "Health September 2006"
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Immediately before a long run, it's probably not a good idea to eat much of anything. If for no other reason than a full stomach interferes with the breathing action of your diaphragm.\n\nIf you want to know what to eat for you last meal before a long run, carbohydrates are a good bet.\n\nA good rule to go by is "anything that agrees with you when you do shorter runs. Experience will teach you what works and what doesn't.\n\nRight now, I prefer fruit juice and bananas before a long run. They have orange juice and potassium and are easy to digest. I have a friend who is known to have gone out on long run carrying a slice of cinnamon toast in each hand. Whatever works.\n\n\nNote: There are people who are gluten intolerant who get craps and diaharea if they run after having foods containing it. There are people who are lactose in tolerant who have have the same problems with dairy products.
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The answer is in your question. No heavy meal right before the workout! Try some fruit and an energy bar or some good(not sugar) cereal. Reboost w/some grub after your shower and you're good to go. I eat six small meals through the day to keep the metabolism pumping w/out overloading.