Worried about diabetes? You’ve GOT to read this research showing WHEN you should exercise in the morning
Posted On December 19, 2010
Great research. Listen to this.(please share this with anyone who wonders why, oh why, can’t they lose weight!!)
A study published in the Journal of Physiology (you can read the study here) shows why it’s important to exercise in the morning. Not just in the morning … but before you eat!
Researchers in Belgium recruited 28 healthy, active young men and began stuffing them with a truly lousy diet, composed of 50 percent fat and 30 percent more calories than the men had been eating.
They compared 3 groups
- Some of the men did not exercise at all.
- The 2nd group exercised, but ate before working out.
- The 3rd group also exercised (the calories expended in the two exercise groups were identical), but ate after breakfast.
Here’s what they were eating for breakfast:
- One of the exercise groups ate a hefty, carbohydrate-rich breakfast before exercising and continued to ingest carbohydrates, in the form of something like a sports drink, throughout their workouts.
- The second exercise group worked out without eating first and drank only water during the training. They made up for their abstinence with breakfast later that morning, and the calories they ate were the same as those eaten by the other exercise group.
After 6 weeks, here’s what they found
- The nonexercising group was, to no one’s surprise, super-sized, having packed on an average of more than six pounds. They developed insulin resistance, and had begun storing extra fat within and between their muscle cells. Both insulin resistance and fat-marbled muscles are metabolically unhealthy conditions that can be precursors of diabetes.
- The men who ate breakfast before exercising gained weight, too, although only about half as much as the non-exercisers. Like those sedentary big eaters, however, they had become more insulin-resistant and were storing a greater amount of fat in their muscles.
- Only the group that exercised before breakfast gained almost no weight and showed no signs of insulin resistance. They also burned the fat they were taking in more efficiently.
Here’s the bottom line
“Our current data,” the study’s authors wrote, “indicate that exercise training in the fasted state is more effective than exercise in the carbohydrate-fed state ….”
So if you want to head off diabetes, try changing your routine a bit by exercising before you eat breakfast. Because, working out before breakfast directly combated the two most detrimental effects of eating even a high-fat, high-calorie diet. It also helped the men avoid gaining weight.
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