What to eat before a workout is one of those common questions. In this video we are going to look at why to regularly eat food with enough carbs is important, why protein before a workout isn't and what you can do to give yourself an extra bit of energy before you start your workout.
THE BEST PRE-WORKOUT FOODS
Here are the best best foods you can eat within an hour
before your workout:
Bananas: They are nature´s PowerBar,
heads of Sports Nutrition at the Australian
Institute of Sport and coauthor of The
Complete Guide to Food for Sports Performance:
Peak Nutrition for Your Sport, Bananas are
loaded with digestible carbohydrates and are
packed with potassium, which aids in maintaining
nerve and muscle function.
The body doesn´t store potassium for very long,
so a medium banana before a workout will help
keep nutrient levels high. Villacorta especially
recommends bananas for morning exercisers: get
up and eat a medium banana with
greek yogurt. wait 30 minutes and then hit the gym.
