Can I exercise before or after meals?

Now many people have realized the importance of exercise. Regular exercise can not only help people beautify and shape their bodies, but also effectively improve the body's resistance. Therefore, more and more people are exercising now. When you walk in the park, you can see that many people are taking various forms of exercise. So how do you exercise before and after meals? What are the precautions? Let’s take a look together!

It is not advisable to engage in strenuous exercise before or after meals. There should be a certain interval between exercise and meals.

During exercise, the activity of muscles redistributes blood throughout the body, and a large amount of blood flows to the muscles involved in the activity. The blood vessels of internal organs, such as the stomach and intestines, are in a state of relative contraction. Therefore, the digestion and absorption functions are also inhibited, the secretion of gastric juice decreases, and the digestive ability weakens. In addition, the sympathetic nerves are excited during exercise and the secretion of adrenaline is greatly increased, which can also weaken the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract and greatly reduce the secretion of the digestive glands. However, this state cannot be changed immediately after exercise. It takes a certain amount of rest to return to normal, so you cannot eat immediately after intense exercise. If you eat immediately after intense exercise, it will affect your digestion and absorption ability. If this continues for a long time, it will cause symptoms such as indigestion, loss of appetite, and chronic gastritis. Generally speaking, it is more appropriate to rest for half an hour or even longer before eating after exercise.

Similarly, you should not engage in strenuous exercise immediately after a meal. If you engage in strenuous exercise immediately after a meal, the blood that is currently involved in gastrointestinal digestion will be redistributed and flow to organs such as muscles, which will also affect gastrointestinal digestion and absorption.

Participating in intense exercise immediately after a meal can also cause abdominal pain and discomfort due to gastrointestinal vibration and mesenteric involvement, which is not good for the body and exercise. Therefore, you should wait at least one and a half hours after a meal before exercising.

From the above we can see that we should not do too strenuous exercise before or after meals. If you do strenuous exercise before meals, it will affect your appetite, and it is best to wait an hour before exercising. If you do strenuous exercise immediately after a meal, it may cause great internal damage, and severe cases may cause indigestion and lead to stomach problems.