Fueling your workouts
Interesting article:
http://www.active.com/nutrition/Articles/How-to-Fuel-for-Your-Workout.htm
A lot of time when people start to workout, they assume they have to eat more. What they may not realize is that the timing of the calories is important, sometimes more important than how many.
When I was in the active losing phase, I was eating 700-900 calories a day and keeping carbs under 45-65 g. I didn't experience feeling faint during workouts or bonking, however. I think this is because I always made sure to eat something before a workout, during if it lasted more than an hour and then immediately after. I timed my carbs so they were before and during workouts as well.
As my activity level got more extreme (i.e., training for a Half-Ironman), I did up my protein, calories and even carbs a little. But, again, I timed my eating with my workouts so I didn't up them by much.
http://www.active.com/nutrition/Articles/How-to-Fuel-for-Your-Workout.htm
A lot of time when people start to workout, they assume they have to eat more. What they may not realize is that the timing of the calories is important, sometimes more important than how many.
When I was in the active losing phase, I was eating 700-900 calories a day and keeping carbs under 45-65 g. I didn't experience feeling faint during workouts or bonking, however. I think this is because I always made sure to eat something before a workout, during if it lasted more than an hour and then immediately after. I timed my carbs so they were before and during workouts as well.
As my activity level got more extreme (i.e., training for a Half-Ironman), I did up my protein, calories and even carbs a little. But, again, I timed my eating with my workouts so I didn't up them by much.
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I think this approach is essential to avoid the pitfalls that can come with incorporating extra calories into regular meals. With timing the extra calories around workouts, you only eat them when you're actually training. So, it's easier to cut them out when injured, tapering or life just gets in the way.
Cassie
Cassie
"Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer."
That's a good point.
I have found that, with the longer distances that I'm doing, I have to eat more the rest of the day too, but I try to consume as much as I can as "workout" calories. I mentally think of my one treat of day as my "workout" treat so that I don't get used to it and think that's how I can eat all the time.
I have found that, with the longer distances that I'm doing, I have to eat more the rest of the day too, but I try to consume as much as I can as "workout" calories. I mentally think of my one treat of day as my "workout" treat so that I don't get used to it and think that's how I can eat all the time.
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There is another article I was reading where is talks about not eating during training runs to train your body to run when glycogen stores are low, the idea being it will improve your performance. I guess a bunch of running coaches use this approach. Basically a lot of us, myself included, probably used this strategy as well unknowingly.
I have noticed my performance when I fuel right is soooo much better its not even close.
I have noticed my performance when I fuel right is soooo much better its not even close.
But there's a competing theory that you should always train with food so you can teach your body to accept more calories while exercising. 
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