Hi:)
I'm just wondering does it matter to eat dinner before or after swimming? I used to swimming after dinner, but recently I can't arrange my timetable well so I have to swim before dinner(swim 4~5pm and eat at 6~7pm). Will it waste my effort if I have my swim plan like this, that is, gaining weights or something...
I heard if you swim before the dinner your body will consume the food very well and then put on some weights. If this is the case, the weight is muscle or fat?
Solve all your problems - swim at 5 in the morning - trust me, you don't bother to eat before you go to the pool.
I still do. I feel like I at least need to get something into my stomach before a workout even at o-dark-thirty.
I still do. I feel like I at least need to get something into my stomach before a workout even at o-dark-thirty.
Amazing. I'm lucky to swallow my thyroid pill with some water.
I swim at random times, so I just make sure that I have ingested SOMETHING relatively close to when I plan to work out, usually an hour or two, and even if it is just Chai Tea with milk. After my workouts, I try to get something nutritous in my system ASAP. And if I was OW'ing in 62 degree water, I try to make that something hot and nutritous. I do not think eating your biggest meal after a workout to be a bad thing. In fact, I would think that if you were going to eat a notably larger meal that it be done after a workout as your body is seeking out nutrients and calories to begin the repair process. IMO, it would be less likely to be stored as fat then...
isn't there an inherent pull of blood to make the digestive process work well? Wouldn't that have a physiological impact on your training?
Until the meal finds its way into the pools filtration
I try not to each too much before swimming to prevent tasting it during the swim (nothing like downing a handful of Cool Ranch Doritos and hopping into the pool for sixty minutes). :bolt:
If I swim in the morning before work, I'll eat half of a granola bar with some water, and later in the day I don't really worry too much about food before. After the swim I'll have a whey protein shake then eat a regular meal.
Our tue & thur practices end at 9 pm & it's 10 before I get home with my McDonald's southwest salad with grilled chicken. I finish by 11 pm watching things i have put on the dvr. then :bed:
I'm not a doctor, but isn't there an inherent pull of blood to make the digestive process work well? Wouldn't that have a physiological impact on your training?
Perhaps that is why folks usually eat at least an hour ahead?
