I occaisionally have to train in the morning, and I have a scoop of whey, a scoop of Metabolic Drive and a banana as soon as I get up, sometimes with kefir or yogurt if I have it, and start sipping my Surge immediately before my warmup.
I also wait at least an hour after waking up to train or else everything just sucks. A slightly longer warmup helps too.
I have been doing some early mornings and I can’t get in a full meal and I don’t wait 2-hours.
I get up at 4:30am, at the gym by 5:00am.
when I get up I drink water, down some BCAAs and 1/2 scoop of Grow! with instant coffee.
I get in my workout, usually 45minutes to an hour
I get home and down some more BCAAAs, 2 eggs and a banana (some kind of fruit) and a lot more coffee with a scoop of Grow!
When I get to work I have some nuts and a and my Flameout.
That seems to work well for me.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
I have been doing some early mornings and I can’t get in a full meal and I don’t wait 2-hours.
I get up at 4:30am, at the gym by 5:00am.
when I get up I drink water, down some BCAAs and 1/2 scoop of Grow! with instant coffee.
I get in my workout, usually 45minutes to an hour
I get home and down some more BCAAAs, 2 eggs and a banana (some kind of fruit) and a lot more coffee with a scoop of Grow!
When I get to work I have some nuts and a and my Flameout.
That seems to work well for me.
[/quote]
And you feel good training with just some BCAAs and a 1/2 a scoop of Grow? Nothing during the workout either?
[quote]jsbrook wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
I have been doing some early mornings and I can’t get in a full meal and I don’t wait 2-hours.
I get up at 4:30am, at the gym by 5:00am.
when I get up I drink water, down some BCAAs and 1/2 scoop of Grow! with instant coffee.
I get in my workout, usually 45minutes to an hour
I get home and down some more BCAAAs, 2 eggs and a banana (some kind of fruit) and a lot more coffee with a scoop of Grow!
When I get to work I have some nuts and a and my Flameout.
That seems to work well for me.
And you feel good training with just some BCAAs and a 1/2 a scoop of Grow? Nothing during the workout either?[/quote]
I am not really a breakfast person so I don’t know if that has anything to do with it.
Also, I have my carb at night before bed. I have either a slice of Ezekial bread with peanut butter, or half a sweet potato, sometimes brown rice with almonds.
I am HUNGRY by the time I get home though.
I dunno, maybe I should try a little more food and I could see if there is a difference, give me something to compare.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
jsbrook wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
I have been doing some early mornings and I can’t get in a full meal and I don’t wait 2-hours.
I get up at 4:30am, at the gym by 5:00am.
when I get up I drink water, down some BCAAs and 1/2 scoop of Grow! with instant coffee.
I get in my workout, usually 45minutes to an hour
I get home and down some more BCAAAs, 2 eggs and a banana (some kind of fruit) and a lot more coffee with a scoop of Grow!
When I get to work I have some nuts and a and my Flameout.
That seems to work well for me.
And you feel good training with just some BCAAs and a 1/2 a scoop of Grow? Nothing during the workout either?
I am not really a breakfast person so I don’t know if that has anything to do with it.
Also, I have my carb at night before bed. I have either a slice of Ezekial bread with peanut butter, or half a sweet potato, sometimes brown rice with almonds.
I am HUNGRY by the time I get home though.
I dunno, maybe I should try a little more food and I could see if there is a difference, give me something to compare.
[/quote]
I guess everyone is different. And you can get used to anything, too. But I always felt drained during morning workouts especially without enough nutrition in my system.
I would faint if I didn’t eat before training. I wake up drink 16 oz of water followed by 2 cups coffee, 1/2 cup oatmeal w/non fat milk.
Then 3 whole eggs and 6 egg whites scrambled with lowfat cheese with 6 strips of lean bacon or turkey sausage washed down with 8 oz of low fat milk. Head to the gym which is an hour drive, half way there I drink my pre-work out shake which is 54g whey isolate protein, 5g creatin, 5g glutemin, 5g Leucine, 2 scoops NO Vapor or NO Explode mixed with 8 oz poweraid.
When I get out of the car I am ready to blastoff and it usually last through my 1 hour training. Immediatley after I have another shake same as above but I add 1 scoop of waxy maize starch. After my 1 hour drive back I’m ready for lunch.
[quote]hammertime2 wrote:
I would faint if I didn’t eat before training. I wake up drink 16 oz of water followed by 2 cups coffee, 1/2 cup oatmeal w/non fat milk. Then 3 whole eggs and 6 egg whites scrambled with lowfat cheese with 6 strips of lean bacon or turkey sausage washed down with 8 oz of low fat milk.
Head to the gym which is an hour drive, half way there I drink my pre-work out shake which is 54g whey isolate protein, 5g creatin, 5g glutemin, 5g Leucine, 2 scoops NO Vapor or NO Explode mixed with 8 oz poweraid.
When I get out of the car I am ready to blastoff and it usually last through my 1 hour training. Immediatley after I have another shake same as above but I add 1 scoop of waxy maize starch. After my 1 hour drive back I’m ready for lunch.[/quote]
it sounds great but my gut would bust and I’d have to carry a bucket with me at the gym
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
I would faint if I didn’t eat before training. I wake up drink 16 oz of water followed by 2 cups coffee, 1/2 cup oatmeal w/non fat milk.
Then 3 whole eggs and 6 egg whites scrambled with lowfat cheese with 6 strips of lean bacon or turkey sausage washed down with 8 oz of low fat milk. Head to the gym which is an hour drive, half way there I drink my pre-work out shake which is 54g whey isolate protein, 5g creatin, 5g glutemin, 5g Leucine, 2 scoops NO Vapor or NO Explode mixed with 8 oz poweraid.
When I get out of the car I am ready to blastoff and it usually last through my 1 hour training. Immediatley after I have another shake same as above but I add 1 scoop of waxy maize starch. After my 1 hour drive back I’m ready for lunch.
it sounds great but my gut would bust and I’d have to carry a bucket with me at the gym
[/quote]
Yeah, I don’t eat before I go to the gym in the morning. If I have to have something for blood sugar it is usually 4oz of fruit and that is it. I’m hungry by the time I get homw though, then I have oatmeal and PB.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
I would faint if I didn’t eat before training. I wake up drink 16 oz of water followed by 2 cups coffee, 1/2 cup oatmeal w/non fat milk.
Then 3 whole eggs and 6 egg whites scrambled with lowfat cheese with 6 strips of lean bacon or turkey sausage washed down with 8 oz of low fat milk. Head to the gym which is an hour drive, half way there I drink my pre-work out shake which is 54g whey isolate protein, 5g creatin, 5g glutemin, 5g Leucine, 2 scoops NO Vapor or NO Explode mixed with 8 oz poweraid.
When I get out of the car I am ready to blastoff and it usually last through my 1 hour training. Immediatley after I have another shake same as above but I add 1 scoop of waxy maize starch. After my 1 hour drive back I’m ready for lunch.
it sounds great but my gut would bust and I’d have to carry a bucket with me at the gym
[/quote]It all just depends on hard you’re going to train. If you are going to train with intensity and get in real quality work you have to feed your body before you can do that. And the morning is when you should pack on the fuel anyway…how does it go breakfast; eat like a king, lunch eat like a prince and dinner eat like a pauper
[quote]hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
I would faint if I didn’t eat before training. I wake up drink 16 oz of water followed by 2 cups coffee, 1/2 cup oatmeal w/non fat milk.
Then 3 whole eggs and 6 egg whites scrambled with lowfat cheese with 6 strips of lean bacon or turkey sausage washed down with 8 oz of low fat milk.
Head to the gym which is an hour drive, half way there I drink my pre-work out shake which is 54g whey isolate protein, 5g creatin, 5g glutemin, 5g Leucine, 2 scoops NO Vapor or NO Explode mixed with 8 oz poweraid.
When I get out of the car I am ready to blastoff and it usually last through my 1 hour training. Immediatley after I have another shake same as above but I add 1 scoop of waxy maize starch. After my 1 hour drive back I’m ready for lunch.
it sounds great but my gut would bust and I’d have to carry a bucket with me at the gym
It all just depends on hard you’re going to train. If you are going to train with intensity and get in real quality work you have to feed your body before you can do that. And the morning is when you should pack on the fuel anyway…how does it go breakfast; eat like a king, lunch eat like a prince and dinner eat like a pauper
[/quote]
Well you and jsbrooks have given me some food for thought.
I may give a larger meal in the morning a try on my day off.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
I would faint if I didn’t eat before training. I wake up drink 16 oz of water followed by 2 cups coffee, 1/2 cup oatmeal w/non fat milk.
Then 3 whole eggs and 6 egg whites scrambled with lowfat cheese with 6 strips of lean bacon or turkey sausage washed down with 8 oz of low fat milk.
Head to the gym which is an hour drive, half way there I drink my pre-work out shake which is 54g whey isolate protein, 5g creatin, 5g glutemin, 5g Leucine, 2 scoops NO Vapor or NO Explode mixed with 8 oz poweraid. When I get out of the car I am ready to blastoff and it usually last through my 1 hour training.
Immediatley after I have another shake same as above but I add 1 scoop of waxy maize starch. After my 1 hour drive back I’m ready for lunch.
it sounds great but my gut would bust and I’d have to carry a bucket with me at the gym
It all just depends on hard you’re going to train. If you are going to train with intensity and get in real quality work you have to feed your body before you can do that.
And the morning is when you should pack on the fuel anyway…how does it go breakfast; eat like a king, lunch eat like a prince and dinner eat like a pauper
Well you and jsbrooks have given me some food for thought.
I may give a larger meal in the morning a try on my day off.
[/quote]
the most important thing about eating good before training is obvious…give yourself plenty of time to digest but not to long or you will loose the benefit of all that energy…it’s trail and error on timing
[quote]hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Well you and jsbrooks have given me some food for thought.
I may give a larger meal in the morning a try on my day off.
the most important thing about eating good before training is obvious…give yourself plenty of time to digest but not to long or you will loose the benefit of all that energy…it’s trail and error on timing
[/quote]
But see that is the thing. I am not getting my ass up 2-hours before the gym so I can have a king’s breakfast, then get to the gym, then get to work.
I work too many hours as it is, efficiency is a valuable thing to me.
I may try a little more of a meal and a small bit of lead time, but no way am I getting up at 3:00am and hanging around to let food digest before I go to the gym.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Well you and jsbrooks have given me some food for thought.
I may give a larger meal in the morning a try on my day off.
the most important thing about eating good before training is obvious…give yourself plenty of time to digest but not to long or you will loose the benefit of all that energy…it’s trail and error on timing
But see that is the thing. I am not getting my ass up 2-hours before the gym so I can have a king’s breakfast, then get to the gym, then get to work.
I work too many hours as it is, efficiency is a valuable thing to me.
I may try a little more of a meal and a small bit of lead time, but no way am I getting up at 3:00am and hanging around to let food digest before I go to the gym.
[/quote]yeah I hear ya, your best is then to put as much nutrition in your shakes before training, add waxy starch if you can stomach the taste, it taste like eating paper but it is a slow digesting carb and gives you the fuel you need without addding alot of calories
[quote]hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Well you and jsbrooks have given me some food for thought.
I may give a larger meal in the morning a try on my day off.
the most important thing about eating good before training is obvious…give yourself plenty of time to digest but not to long or you will loose the benefit of all that energy…it’s trail and error on timing
But see that is the thing. I am not getting my ass up 2-hours before the gym so I can have a king’s breakfast, then get to the gym, then get to work.
I work too many hours as it is, efficiency is a valuable thing to me.
I may try a little more of a meal and a small bit of lead time, but no way am I getting up at 3:00am and hanging around to let food digest before I go to the gym.
yeah I hear ya, your best is then to put as much nutrition in your shakes before training, add waxy starch if you can stomach the taste, it taste like eating paper but it is a slow digesting carb and gives you the fuel you need without addding alot of calories
[/quote]
so I take it you aren’t a fan of fasted cardio either?
I’d probably just add whole milk to my Grow! if I wanted the slow carb, the sugars would also aid in energy, but luckily so far what I have been doing seems to work.
There is also the whole thing with as I am taxing my CNS before a timely warm up I am not sure diverting energy and blood supply to my tummy is the best option
I’ve been working out in the mornings and I usually just go have some Surge. If I don’t have anything, I start to get to dry heaving like the OP, but I’ve found that if I sip Surge throughout the workout, I do just fine.
Then I come back to my apartment and eat everything I can cook between then and when I have to leave for work.
Currently,
200g Ground Kangaroo with mixed nuts, 1 hr before training…I’m dieting.
GJ
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Well you and jsbrooks have given me some food for thought.
I may give a larger meal in the morning a try on my day off.
the most important thing about eating good before training is obvious…give yourself plenty of time to digest but not to long or you will loose the benefit of all that energy…it’s trail and error on timing
But see that is the thing. I am not getting my ass up 2-hours before the gym so I can have a king’s breakfast, then get to the gym, then get to work.
I work too many hours as it is, efficiency is a valuable thing to me.
I may try a little more of a meal and a small bit of lead time, but no way am I getting up at 3:00am and hanging around to let food digest before I go to the gym.
yeah I hear ya, your best is then to put as much nutrition in your shakes before training, add waxy starch if you can stomach the taste, it taste like eating paper but it is a slow digesting carb and gives you the fuel you need without addding alot of calories
so I take it you aren’t a fan of fasted cardio either?
I’d probably just add whole milk to my Grow! if I wanted the slow carb, the sugars would also aid in energy, but luckily so far what I have been doing seems to work.
There is also the whole thing with as I am taxing my CNS before a timely warm up I am not sure diverting energy and blood supply to my tummy is the best option
[/quote]
I hear ya, everyone is differnt so they have different needs for what they are specifically doing in the morning. I know I hate to eat breakfast but I am trying to keep my muscle mass and loose BF at the same time.
Fasted Cardio? Is that cardio done fast or fasting while you do cardio? I used to get up in the morning and just drink a pot of coffee and then train like a madman, but I don’t think that was too smart either.
[quote]hammertime2 wrote:
I hear ya, everyone is differnt so they have different needs for what they are specifically doing in the morning. I know I hate to eat breakfast but I am trying to keep my muscle mass and loose BF at the same time.
Fasted Cardio? Is that cardio done fast or fasting while you do cardio? I used to get up in the morning and just drink a pot of coffee and then train like a madman, but I don’t think that was too smart either.[/quote]
fasted meaning on an empty stomach.
I want to protect my muscle gains also which is why I down the BCAAs
Coffee is a good thing as is the Grow!, for me anyways, but I will give a heavier meal a try.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Well you and jsbrooks have given me some food for thought.
I may give a larger meal in the morning a try on my day off.
the most important thing about eating good before training is obvious…give yourself plenty of time to digest but not to long or you will loose the benefit of all that energy…it’s trail and error on timing
But see that is the thing. I am not getting my ass up 2-hours before the gym so I can have a king’s breakfast, then get to the gym, then get to work.
I work too many hours as it is, efficiency is a valuable thing to me.
I may try a little more of a meal and a small bit of lead time, but no way am I getting up at 3:00am and hanging around to let food digest before I go to the gym.
[/quote]
I’ve always been a breakfast person and can’t function without one, but I’ve known people who’s stomachs just don’t let them eat that early, so you may be better off doing your thing. But I have found that waiting at least an hour made a huge difference in performance, so give that a try.
[quote]Uncle Gabby wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
hammertime2 wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Well you and jsbrooks have given me some food for thought.
I may give a larger meal in the morning a try on my day off.
the most important thing about eating good before training is obvious…give yourself plenty of time to digest but not to long or you will loose the benefit of all that energy…it’s trail and error on timing
But see that is the thing. I am not getting my ass up 2-hours before the gym so I can have a king’s breakfast, then get to the gym, then get to work.
I work too many hours as it is, efficiency is a valuable thing to me.
I may try a little more of a meal and a small bit of lead time, but no way am I getting up at 3:00am and hanging around to let food digest before I go to the gym.
I’ve always been a breakfast person and can’t function without one, but I’ve known people who’s stomachs just don’t let them eat that early, so you may be better off doing your thing. But I have found that waiting at least an hour made a huge difference in performance, so give that a try.
[/quote]
I know this is whiney and wussy, but I don’t like the thought of getting up an hour early to hang out and warm up! holey moley… that is 3:00am or 3:30am! I don’t know how Ronda does it