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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.
Greenbank-
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.
Everybody more or less like this, that took me getting used to, makes me smile now; and on The Dean and BCM the start were not really slow.
fussballclub
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?