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Why would you not push too hard when training fasted...especially if you're only doing up to an hour or so? I do virtually all my training first thing in the morning, and then cycle to work before having breakfast! Would it not also be the case that training in the morning after having had a decent dinner the night before isn't quite the same as training fasted?
TL;DR I've no answers for you, only questions!
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Even fasted (i.e. work out before eating breakfast but having had a 'normal' meal the evening before) you should have enough glycogen in your blood for at least 2 hours at a hard intensity.
I rarely eat before early morning exercise (10k runs, 40k cycle rides, 5k swims, etc). Back when I was doing lots of Audaxes I'd often get to 100km before I first ate something that day, but that was plodding along at a low intensity for those 100km.
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I struggle to find the time in the week to train, so like you have to jump out of bed then straight on the turbo.
I can't face food 15 minutes before an hours session regardless of its intensity.
I usually glug 500ml of skimmed milk straight after with a little nesquik powder.
Then breakfast, usually 3 eggs scrambled.
I'm not sure if it's good or bad but it's all I can do really.
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Early morning turbo training question approaching -
Although i wake up in dread on these mornings, I tend to do a lot of my turbo stuff early in the morning before work. As i'm usually on the turbo within 40ish minutes of getting out of bed, I don't eat before as I can't imagine I'd actually have digested it in time so it seems pointless- i just have a good breakfast after.
I know that you're not supposed to push too hard when training fasted, but i always end up kind of ignoring this and do around 40-50 mins at c.90% FTP as a kind of 'base' workout (split into 15/20ish minute intervals. Is this bad?
To those of you that do pre-work turbo, do you eat beforehand? What kind of workouts do you do?