Is it good to eat after aerobic exercise?

Aerobic exercise is a type of exercise that many people do in their lives. Aerobic exercise consumes some lactic acid in our body during the exercise. What kind of food should you eat after aerobic exercise? In fact, there are certain requirements for what you eat after exercise. You must not eat immediately after exercise. Next, let the editor introduce you to eating after aerobic exercise.

1. Timing of exercise and diet

Everyone knows that you can’t exercise immediately after a meal because it can cause digestive dysfunction. However, it may not be clear that you should not eat immediately after exercise. It’s actually very simple. Mint tells you the “123 principle” between exercise and diet.

You can eat only after resting for 1 hour after exercise. In order to achieve better weight loss results, it is recommended to rest for 1.5 hours.

You can eat a small amount of easily digestible food 2 hours before moderate to high intensity exercise lasting more than 1 hour. To prevent low blood sugar during exercise, lack of physical strength will affect the effect of exercise.

After a regular meal, such as lunch or dinner, you need to rest for 3 hours before doing aerobic exercise. Therefore, if you can only exercise at night, you need to advance dinner time and reduce your food intake appropriately. Otherwise it will affect sleep.

In addition, it is particularly pointed out that yoga practice should be done on an empty stomach as much as possible and with an empty bladder, and should be done early in the morning or before dinner. If you are weak and have low blood sugar, you can drink a cup of about 200 ml of honey water before starting exercise to raise your blood sugar level.

2. What to eat before and after exercise

Eating before exercise is very important. Don’t exercise on an empty stomach in pursuit of weight loss. The result of this is often that you don't exercise long enough, the intensity is not up to standard, and it is easy to overeat after exercise. Next, Queenie will teach you how to eat before exercise, so that a scientific diet can achieve the best effect of exercise.

1. From the perspective of exercise time

(1) Exercise in the early morning: on an empty stomach or with a glass of honey water. People with hypoglycemia should at least drink a glass of honey water, or supplement with 1-2 slices of whole wheat toast.

(2) Afternoon exercise: If you choose to exercise between 5pm and 7pm, you can supplement with a cup of yogurt, 2 slices of whole wheat toast and a piece of fruit around 4pm.

(3) Exercise in the evening: The time for exercise should be after dinner, usually around 8 p.m. Then dinner should be as light as possible. Greasy food will increase the burden on the stomach and intestines and require more time to digest. Eat a piece of fruit half an hour before meals. For dinner, have a small bowl of rice or porridge and a serving of vegetables.

There are actually many and very important issues related to eating after aerobic exercise. We should pay more attention to this knowledge in our lives. We should not only exercise well and eat a balanced diet, but also eat healthily, live a happy life, develop good living habits, and develop good hygiene habits.