Of course no restriction when you wanna eat something before exercise, however notice that certain foods may affect the performance and even ruin health. So let's see what's best to eat and what is not for the matter.
Choosing the foods for optimizing fat burning, and nutrition to add into the daily life.
Yes there are certain foods that will be explained below, from the foods with high fiber, like salads even though they are healthy, but not good enough before exercise to do.
The foods with fiber can slow down process of digestion, which will make your stomach feel uncomfortable.
There are specific vegetables you need to avoid like cabbage, and broccoli.
Of course to avoid this you can eat vegetables hours after your exercise activity.
Raw bananas can be harder by stomach to digest, and cause bloating.
Surely the bananas you eat must be ripped and look perfect yellow. Ripe bananas is always best choice, and the process for body to use it as "fuel".
Foods with higher fats may give problem for yourself, and even foods with "healthy" fats are not that healthy to consume before doing exercise.
Outside of sources, the process of fats turning to fuel is slower, compared to body when process protein to be fuel.
Therefore the body will hardly gain energy for the exercise you do.
There should be two or three hours before you can do exercise to eat something, but in certain condition when you don't have enough time, then eating apple and banana is recommended.
Spicy foods, beside high fat foods are not recommended.
With the same reason when you eat high fiber foods, it may cause your stomach feel uncomfortable too, and surely affect the performance of exercise. Even worse, it may trigger GERD.
Fruit juice is not recommended, and you can definitely guess it.
Yes the high sugar inside, less fiber, and surely the nutrients that are not as good as the fruits you eat in whole. Nutritionists may suggest you to eat fruits instead, but of course, fruit juice is still good to keep you hydrated.
Energy drink must be included for this list. Yes they are advertised to improving performance and energy, but it's the caffeine inside that give such effects. Caffeine intake for certain people may affect the heart, and ruin their exercise activity.
To get hydrated there should be many choices instead of energy drinks.
Keeping body hydrated will be the key to keep the performance of exercise as good as possible.
And choosing ideal foods can be the key too for exercise you do.
Finally, having read the article, avoiding the certain foods and drink about before exercise you plan, is definitely recommended.
