Pre Yoga Meal - Good or Bad idea?

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how should you eat before having a workout this is the topic of this video I'm not gonna be done with specific foods you should eat or what diet to follow instead I will share with you which are the two key areas that determine the ideal pre-workout nutrition I will share with you a couple of stories from myself as well as clients and finally I will tell you which are the two key questions to ask yourself to determine if what you are doing at the moment is the right thing for you let's start with the first one which are the two main factors that determine the optimal workout the first one is the metabolic state at which you are in at the moment and the second one is the type of workout that you're having let's elaborate a little bit on the first one which are your metabolic state at the moment depends on obviously your metabolism some people with poor metabolism will need to continuously for purely themselves so have like five or even more meals a day and that's fine if that's where you are at the moment of course this may change with time depending on how you eat depending on how you exercise and other lifestyle factors but also it depends on your digestive health how many times a day do you have a bowel movement a lot of people are having only one or even less bowel movements a day and obviously they're more in a constipated state while others they may have three or four bowel movements a day and obviously that digestive health is a lot better so depending on where you are if you are more constipated in general again you can do a lot of things to support your digestive system but at the moment maybe you want to not eat prior to a workout because this potentially may prevent you from moving in the optimal way but also your overall relationship with food may also play a role in terms of your pre-workout so if you are I am a little bit under oxic or if you have a lift of bulimia you know that this is your tendency you may want to think of it when planning your your pre-workout meal if you have the tendency to overeat maybe eating just before you exercise might not be the best idea if you know that you have the tendency to under ate maybe having a snack prior to workout might be good for you but also the type of training is gonna be very important in terms of how you plan your pre-workout if you're having a workout that is not very aerobic having a little bit more food might be okay so let's say that you're doing some egg workout with weights you probably will be fine having some food prior if instead you're having a very fast pace yoga session now these are very general and big generalizations and the specific type of training that you're having may have its own specific needs let's say that you're practicing inversions let's say that you are having a one-hour or even longer of inversions practice having an empty stomach and long go a long way towards making you feel light and as a result you want to train with an empty stomach so have no pre-workout but at the same time and thus will cover later on in this video feeling grounded and centered may also be an aspect that you struggle with at the moment so maybe having some food such as some nutzy or something that there has a little bit of fat in it might be appropriate for you to get you through the program and feel centered let me now give you the two things that I always consider when planning my pre-workout food as well as when I I speak with my clients the first one is that the food needs to be digestible no matter how anaerobic or aerobic no matter what type of training you do you need to eat something that is easily digestible for you and then the second one is that you need to be monitoring the three things that I always ask people to check on prior to training weeds are mood appetite and energy if you are in a bad mood or you have cravings or you are having mood fluctuations chances are that you needed to adjust how you you are anything you need to give yourself the food that will balance these three areas and I say these three areas always are related with each other because even if two of them are fine and the other one is suffering soon sooner or later I have found that all of them fall apart so let me give you a couple of examples now from my life and then afterwards from some clients and how they use these principles in order to determine their optimal pre-workout meal I will take you back to many years so when I was young and I was doing a lot of weights in general all my life I can digest the meat very easily so at the time I was lifting weights I wanted to get bigger and as a result I was eating quite a bit of meat there were cases that before going and having a workout in the gym I would have a schnitzel my mother would cook for me and I would have like even three or four schnitzel and that didn't prevent me from having a good workout moving forward many years and that was probably in my early 30s I started discovering fasting and at the time the first type of pasta I was doing is that was having three the windows in the day that allowed myself to eat and when I was missing these windows because of life or because I wanted and I was not eating outside this resulted in to having a lot of workouts with not a lot of for food or maybe having fasted for 12-plus hours on that on that day and while at the moment these days seemed like a big deal for me at the time it was because I was coming from a state where I was eating much more often this served me very well at the time so I was able to start losing weight which was part of my goals in my early thirties and I was feeling a lot of clarity the third example would be a very pleasant it is going on over the last few months before my workout I'm usually having a snack this is usually 20 minutes before the workout and this is nuts and white bread I have white bread which I can easily digest I don't digest well at all like the whole wheat and I hate not so maybe it even it like 400 grams of nuts or hopefully a little bit less I love them and I can easily digest having this free snack is allowing me to have good energy levels and go through a workout feeling my stomach empty although I know that a lot of people having that much many nuts or having bread would blow them and they will not allow them to have a workout I also give you two examples from clients number one was a client that it was eating five times a day and he was a very lean man and he was feeling that you know if you would go for more than two hours without eating and also halfway through the workout he usually had a little bit more food so maybe an extra but the composition was not an issue he just want to go through his long training sessions example number two it was a lady that she had put on some weight after a pregnancy and the see was very keen into dropping weight for here exercising while fasted there was quite important because that was how she would move your body into burning some of the extra fat that her body had accumulated so the thing that she was falling was early in the morning having a hot yoga class and Bikram class and straight after having a weight training session so she was having a very long training session early in the morning and this was done with minimal food sometimes he would have a Mike Otto sometimes if she wanted she would have like a small snack but she was very cautious and very careful of not increasing the number of calories during that window actually after the second session she also delay her first meal so she can help her body stay on a fat-burning or safety towards a fat-burning state so you see I've already given you five examples three from my personal life to of others that they vary a lot they were all able to achieve their goals which of course they were slightly different and they do that on very different diets actually the last lady is a vegetarian well you know I'm not I have been a vegetarian at times such as in my early thirties when I was doing this window fasting I was a vegetarian so when you're coming to think of your pre-workout meal I suggest you go back to the basics eat things that you can easily digest make sure your energy appetite and mood are in in a good state and take this as a small piece of your overall relationship with food and metabolism and ultimately what you want to achieve from your training if you have any questions let me know you can direct message me or leave me a comment and if you want to discuss things further you can also reach adopting your current diet [Music]