Morning Cardio Question

[Godless]

I know people like to do Cardio in the am on an empty stomach to burn more fat.

My question is if you eat a complex carb like oatmeal then do cardio it should take awhile to digest and be utilizable for energy. So therefore shouldn't you be using fat for an energy source still ??

I'm ravenous when I wake up, I can't imagine not eating right away.

Thoughts??

 

[TooPowerful4u]

wrong. if you ingest the oatmeal, just because its digested slowly, doesnt mean its not digest at all for a while. It all depends how much losing the bodyfat means to you. Either be tough, push through, suck it up, or quit. Wake up, sip on a black coffee with equal in it, you can have a tiny bit of a high quality whey isolate zero carb zero fat protein shake if youd like. If this shyt was easy, youd see a lot more people in shape wouldnt we?

 

[jawbreakerkid]

he's in pretty damn good shape already, look at his pics in the pic forum...I don't think willing to suffer a little is the problem.

 

[TooPowerful4u]

lol nevermind. doesnt look to me like you need the cardio. still the answer to the question remains. The oatmeal is going to lessen your fat burnign abilities a lot. If bodybuilders coulda got away with oatmeal before cardio weda all been doing it by now haha.

 

[Godless]

lol nevermind. doesnt look to me like you need the cardio. still the answer to the question remains. The oatmeal is going to lessen your fat burnign abilities a lot. If bodybuilders coulda got away with oatmeal before cardio weda all been doing it by now haha.

Thanks, but scientifically speaking, we know this to be true that:

1) while simple sugar digestion begins in he mouth, starch is not broken down until it reaches the small intestine.

2) Generally, it takes 1-2 hours for stomach emptying to occur from a recently ingested meal

3)Carbs have to be converted into glucose to enter the blood stream and effect insulin. This process takes time because starch and glycogen have to be broken down into maltose, then maltose, sucrose, and lactose are absorbed by microvilli and are broken down into 2 glucose units(disaccherides) then enzymes convert these into monosaccharides

If a carb such as Oatmeal has the following (1 cup)

Detailed Nutrition Facts

Water 7.13 g
Energy 311 kcal
Energy 1302 kj
Protein 12.96 g
Total lipid (fat) 5.1 g
Ash 1.54 g
Carbohydrate, by difference 54.27 g
Fiber, total dietary 7.9 g
Sugars, total 1.17 g
Sucrose 1.13 g
Glucose (dextrose) 0.04 g

You can see that only .04 g of 54.27 g of carbs can be absorbed prior to reaching the small intestine


So that is why I asked the above question. Rationally I don't see how starch could effect the fat burning process if one eats then does cardio right after.

 

[Godless]

I probably wouldn't have even considered this question before, but the fact that
i'm dieting and my last carb meal some days is at 3pm. so i'm dying for some carbs as soon as i wake up.

 

[TooPowerful4u]

interesting. who wants to be the first to take a scientific leap of faith and test this out lol, im not bustin my butt for 4 weeks to test out a theory and find out i just did cardio for 4 weeks for nothing and got no results cuase the oatmeal screwed up my fat burning process. Im sure somewhere along the line people have tried things like this, if it worked im sure we woulda heard about it by now. I will stick to my empty stomach cardio haha.

 

[KillerStack]

You know some people argue that it isn't really even that important what substrate you burn while actually doing cardio; to use it to get into a deficit mainly. I have read, but don't have any studies to back this up right now, that if you burn a lot of fat during the activity the body will burn more carbs the rest of the day and vice versa. Some bodybuilders do HIIT cardio which burns a lot of carbs and find that works to burn fat really well too.

It would be interesting to see a study with 2 groups, one doing cardio after a meal and the other on an empty stomach but both keeping deficit and macros the same. Would there be a dramatic difference in fat lost/muscle maintained?

 

[pumpputnam]

Suck it up! Morning! LOL

 

[xcelbeyond]

It's not really unanimous that the best time to do cardio is first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.

Many people do it in the AM after eating "something" and don't say "I wish I didn't eat because the cardio didn't do squat for me." Same thing goes for doing cardio in the evening.

There's lots of "anecdotal" evidence that insinuates doing cardio first thiing in morning on an empty stomach is "the most effective" way to do cardio. I wouldn't discount all the other permeations of how to do cardio. IMHO - the "intensity" that cardio is done is probably as important (if not moreso) than when it's done.

 

[TheChosen1]

I've gotten better results drinking coffee & popping my supplements every morning while driving to the gym. But that just my opinion.

 

[Godless]

The way I try to look at it is if I burn 1500 Cal on the treadmill (i'm currently doing 2 1 hour sessions a day now) and on a low carb day, I'm taking in about 2000 Cal , I will be in a glycogen defecit most of the day. Maybe not in the am after i eat then do cardio but for sure after, as i'm only taking in 37 g of carbs with my morning oatmeal and burning 750 cal on the treadmill soon after. So why does it matter when you eat??