Dr. Andy Galpin

We don't have too many athletes or clients that...

we'll intentionally ask them to not eat before they train, like we sort of talked about.

But the easy, quick, just get out the door stuff, that's what we're going to lean on.

Like very simple, easy digesting, small amounts of food, probably not as much as your full breakfast, but those things will tend to work pretty well.

Mm-hmm.

The acute timeframe pre mid post exercise for those people probably doesn't matter that much.

It really isn't going to have a huge impact.

What will matter is the days and weeks, the total caloric expenditure throughout the day.

This person, if you're training in the morning, you probably have at least 24 hours to recover, right?

Even if you're training hard every single day, most of the time when we get really specific about nutrient timing, it's because a lot of our clientele are training twice or more a day.

That's when timing really is critical, whether you're talking about timing of fat, protein, and carbohydrates.

So when we hear people say things like, oh, timing doesn't matter, for the average person, it's not a huge deal.

But for some of our people, it really significantly matters.

But what you just described is not.

It's that other person who's like, I'm exercising, let's just even say seven days a week.

Probably most people are doing like five.

So even in between that, you've got a lot of recovery time.

So what you have before the workout is,

Doesn't matter a huge amount.

Whether you have it immediately post, doesn't matter a huge amount.