I take my preworkout drink and have a FiniBar. Then head to the gym (5 minute drive) and always walk at an incline for 20 minutes before lifting. I use it as a warm up and to get steps in. My heart rate stays 105-115 bpm during this 20 minute walk.
Should I be eating the FiniBar during my pre workout or would I benefit taking it during my walk and closer to my weight lifting session? Does it matter either way?
Take your maintenance calories and divide that number by your body weight.
That number is how many minutes into your walk you should eat the Finibar.
This is a joke, right?
Personally I would save the bar for post WO.
How close to your WO do you eat? The bar has a bit of fat so it will digest slower. If you want to benefit from the cals for you WO I would eat it 45-1hour per wo. If you wanna eat something right before you train find something that is all carb/protien and no fat.
I eat breakfast about 30 minutes after by the time I’m home and showered before work. I eat the bar about 15 minutes before the walk or 35 minutes before my lift.
I just have always like the finibar as fuel for the workout. But didn’t know if I wanted to wait to eat it until after the walk so it’s used as fuel during my lifting session n
I think what you’ve laid out is fine. Just wouldn’t eat the bar any closer to training.
No man, not a joke at all.
I don’t believe that shifting the timing of the Finibar by 6-8 minutes will have any impact on your training.
But if YOU do, it will. If you believe that there is an optimal timing, and you’re not following it, it will effect your results negatively. Your belief that you’re hurting your workout will hurt your workout For Real.
On the other hand, if you believe that there is an optimal timing, and by following it you will improve your results, following it Really Will improve your results.
This is a coin flip decision.
Is something not going well that would compel you to change what you’re doing now?
Here we go!
No. Just had me wondering.
If doing cardio first then hitting the weights, eat your Finibar post workout. If you do weights first then cardio, eat it immediately prior to your cardio session.
But it’s a bar for energy.
30 minutes your just getting a blood sugar response. Glycogenesis takes 2 to 3 hours. There is no issue though if you are doing this for your blood sugar and an insulin spike.
I am usually in ketosis. Personally, I like having 50-100g of carbs the night before if I want to have some glycogen for the workout. 200-300mg of caffeine about an hour and 15 minutes before the workout starts is my sweet spot for a stimulant.
Don’t be afraid to experiment to find what you like best and what works best for you.
Forgive me if I’ve got this completely wrong…and if I do, please correct me and tell me how it’s. If I take the bar before my walking session, I will be using energy mostly from the FiniBar due to the blood sugar spike and my body using that as energy first. Then, once I’m through that energy, my body starts to use stored glycogen as energy…which will be during my weight lifting session. Then, lastly once glycogen is depleted, it’s using fat as energy. Do I want to use glycogen stores as energy while lifting?
Where does ketosis fit in with all of this also?
Ignore all of that.
It does not matter.
It doesn’t
This.
If everything is good, keep doing it.
*Personally, and this is just my preference I use my weight training to warm up. Any cardio is done hours before or after training.
Everything is good. I won’t change.
I’d love for someone to help clear this up if they could.
The FiniBar is designed to NOT cause a blood sugar spike. It’s supposed to be even, steady energy. The fat in it helps with that.
The energy systems the body employs depends on the intensity of the exercise, in relation to your heart rate, along with the duration. You won’t be using to fuel your lifting efforts unless you’re in a state of ketosis, which you won’t be if you’re eating Finibars and drinking Surge.