2 Reasons Not To Eat Before A Workout

On this video we discuss why it's not a great Idea to eat a heavy meal before an intense workout.Show more

1. Blood moves from the your organs to the muscles to deliver nutrients and oxygen to the muscle cells. When this happens fluid and water in the digestive tract are also needed. This prevents food from being digested properly which means you will not be able to absorb the nutrients that you need. Long term the liver becomes burdened with undigested particles and will not function properly. We can create a whole another video describing the health effects of poor liver function.
2. Next digestion is very energy demanding. If you are going into the gym to have a great workout, you want as much energy as possible to go towards that time. Unfortunately when your body is trying to utilize energy for digestion, this will leave you with little energy to provide for a robust workout and your training will suffer for it.