Should you eat after exercise or exercise after eating?

Now many people have joined the ranks of sports, because exercise has many benefits to the human body. It not only can maintain a good figure, but the key is that it has a good effect on preventing many diseases, especially for people with three high phenomena. Only through exercise can they regulate their bodies well. So, should we eat after exercise or exercise after eating? Many people are confused about this issue, let’s study it together!

When exercising and keeping fit, the timing of meals is very important. It is not advisable to engage in strenuous exercise before or after meals. There should be a certain interval of rest between exercise and meals. During exercise, our body needs to ensure oxygen and nutrients for muscles and bones.

Under the regulation of the central nervous system, the oxygen supply in the whole body is redistributed, which greatly reduces the secretion of the digestive glands, thereby affecting the digestion and absorption of the gastrointestinal tract. The more intense the exercise and the longer it lasts, the longer it takes for the digestive organs to recover. Therefore, it is a normal physiological activity for people to not want to eat immediately after exercise. It is generally believed that it is more scientific to rest for at least 30 to 40 minutes before eating after exercise. Similarly, you should not participate in strenuous sports immediately after a meal. If you do so immediately after a meal, the blood that is involved in gastrointestinal digestion will be redistributed to the muscles and bones, which will affect gastrointestinal digestion and absorption. Participating in strenuous exercise immediately after a meal can also cause abdominal pain and discomfort due to gastrointestinal vibration and the involvement of the mesentery, which will affect human health.

Therefore, you should exercise at least 1.5 hours after a meal. Engaging in less strenuous activities after meals, such as walking and relatively gentle cultural and sports activities, can not only help digestion but is also beneficial to health.

In short, you should choose a nutritional diet strategy based on the actual needs of sports and fitness, that is, you should make up for what you lack, otherwise it will backfire. Due to long-term overwork, it is easy to lose nutritional balance, resulting in increased burden on internal organs and increased risk of stomach and heart diseases. Only moderate exercise combined with a reasonable diet can actively restore the body's metabolic and nutritional balance and maintain a normal weight.

Generally speaking, exercising after a meal is a better choice, but you cannot exercise immediately after a meal. If you exercise immediately after a meal, it will put a great burden on the stomach and intestines, and may even cause indigestion in severe cases. It is best to start exercising one and a half hours after a meal.