What to Eat Before a Workout？ Lei Chen

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Summarize:

What’s the best thing to eat before an exercise? Usually the answer is eating some a low-fat, high-carb meal or snack foods one to four hours before. It is because that the food depends on your exercise's intensity and your personal preferences.

Short time exercise such as no more than one hour walking or cycling is unlimited diet. However, if you will do long time exercise, the food can be affected by your performance and feeling.

To find what foods best for you is an absolutely significant. According to the guideline, when you want to begin the activity right away, do not eat anything!

Eating some foods which are high in carbs and low in fat and moderate in protein like milk, crackers and so on can help our to keep the energy from  blood sugar and carbohydrate stores. In this way, we do not worry about stomachache.

Carbohydrate plays a vital role in body's source of energy. It is used more efficiently than proteins or fats.  There is doubt why should not you eat more protein than carbs beforehand, while you are doing strength training. It is because that according to a plenty of studies, eating carbs shortly before exercise is the best way to improve performance.

Studies show that while you exercise eats some foods or liquids in order to attain pre-exercise calories, they have not difference.

Fast is able to affect performance rather than help to quickly burn carols. If you are doing prolonged exercise, you need to eat small high-carb food and beverage to maintain blood sugar and water.

In addition, The American College of Sports Medicine suggests that while you are doing long time aerobic exercise except water, you also need to some potassium and sodium. The best way is to drink sports drinks.



Comments:

All in all, as a university student, I think while our are doing or prepare exercise, our body must have enough calories and water in order to keep health for two reasons.

First of all, if people lack carbs such as limosis to take exercise, it is a bad way to lose weight. I used to fast in order to lose weight. I remember I best record was that four days did not eat anything only drink milk. Though the result was obvious at that time, the side effect also was obvious. When I finished fast, my weight increased rapidly.

Secondly, I learn about when you are doing exercise, you must drink a lot of water. Take me, I used to like to drink Coke when I am playing basketball, for example. As a result, I got a kidney stone. Now I drink a lot of water everyday whatever if to take exercise.