Herb's reply reminds me of a question that sometimes occurs to me. Even though many people swim and do exercise in early morning, I wonder if it is really good to do intensive physical exercises right after you just got up from a long night's complete rest? I mean, from the most restful 8 hours or so, to suddenly engaging the most intensive physical activities? :rolleyes:
There's an article in the march 2010 Runner's World about just that. Getting used to working out at different times, eating for it, adjusting for winter, etc. I'd strongly advise reading it.
As for me, I mostly swim in the mornings. When I take a break, it takes my body about 2 weeks to fully readjust to getting up early and working out. But if I'm not swimming early, I'm doing something else.
After reading this thread, and the book Racing Weight, I've tested myself with eating before morning workouts. For running, I get up an hour before my start, eat right away, and am ready to go when I plan. For swimming, I've been eating in my car on the way there. Depending on the set it either feels great or like I'm going to throw up. Before I tried this, I'd always be starving 30 min into a swim workout.
I always take a Gatorade type drink for workouts of around 75 min or more, especially with warm temps. I start drinking it about 40 min in; lots of water before that and even with it. Shorter than 75 min it just seems like empty calories (which I don't need) to me.
If you haven't read the Racing Weight book, I'd highly recommend it, as it covers this topic rather well.
Herb's reply reminds me of a question that sometimes occurs to me. Even though many people swim and do exercise in early morning, I wonder if it is really good to do intensive physical exercises right after you just got up from a long night's complete rest? I mean, from the most restful 8 hours or so, to suddenly engaging the most intensive physical activities? :rolleyes:
There's an article in the march 2010 Runner's World about just that. Getting used to working out at different times, eating for it, adjusting for winter, etc. I'd strongly advise reading it.
As for me, I mostly swim in the mornings. When I take a break, it takes my body about 2 weeks to fully readjust to getting up early and working out. But if I'm not swimming early, I'm doing something else.
After reading this thread, and the book Racing Weight, I've tested myself with eating before morning workouts. For running, I get up an hour before my start, eat right away, and am ready to go when I plan. For swimming, I've been eating in my car on the way there. Depending on the set it either feels great or like I'm going to throw up. Before I tried this, I'd always be starving 30 min into a swim workout.
I always take a Gatorade type drink for workouts of around 75 min or more, especially with warm temps. I start drinking it about 40 min in; lots of water before that and even with it. Shorter than 75 min it just seems like empty calories (which I don't need) to me.
If you haven't read the Racing Weight book, I'd highly recommend it, as it covers this topic rather well.
