how long after a big meal

[LondonTiger]

how long after a BIG meal would ou say it's safe to workout..

I've lofted in a full stomach before.. Not a good idea.. Not a good idea to exert your body, whilst at the same time your body is exerting itself tryign to produce enxymes to break down your food.

I'm gonna leave it for 2 hours.

[Sami]

Minimum 1 hour.

[2big2fail]

sometimes schedule dictates eating then heading to the gym. I've deadlifted and squatted after a steak dinner. Life circumstances are seldom optimal...you do what have to in order to get the work done.

Just go by gut feeling (pun intended) and comfort level and don't worry about the clock.

I'm sure you've gone swimming after eating without waiting half n hour and lived to tell about it.

[El Viejo]

I'm sure you've gone swimming after eating without waiting half n hour and lived to tell about it.

It looks like you like to live on the edge. I suppose the next thing your going tell us is that it's safe to swallow aspirin with Coke. :eek:

[PVC]

how long after a BIG meal would ou say it's safe to workout.

81.4 minutes.

[Greg C]

I fail to understand why you can't figure this out for yourself? Your poor effort at communication appears to be asking for what others can handle when you have already arrived at a conclusion for yourself (2 hours). It is obvious even to the inexperienced the answer to your poorly posed question is both situational and individually dependent.

Perhaps you should spend more time lifting and learning to communicate more clearly.

[Sami]

Good lord. You can't figure this out for yourself? What are you, effin' four years old or what? Grow a friggin pair of balls already, lift and learn, and quit posting so damn much crap. No wonder people think you are such a dork.

FUCK!!! can't believe I just wasted ten seconds typing this shit. You're almost as bad as msingh. Shit.

Seriously, this was my alternate post. I decided to go with 'nice guy'. :D

[BCGuy]

how long after a BIG meal would ou say it's safe to workout..

I've lofted in a full stomach before.. Not a good idea.. Not a good idea to exert your body, whilst at the same time your body is exerting itself tryign to produce enxymes to break down your food.

I'm gonna leave it for 2 hours.

Two hours maybe if it is an average sized meal. When I eat big (all you can eat sushi..in volumes where the waiters 'forget' to bring all my orders), I am full for several hours afterwards. I plan to do my weights before the big meal or on another day because digestion is so damn slow.

[gman]

Whenever your mother says it's OK to go lift. Just ask her.
Jesus Christ dude, how old are you?

[LondonTiger]

if you dont like the thread, don''t respond to it, plenty people have responded and found it useful..

Asking me how young I am is dumb, live by your principles and ask yourself why a "mature" and "old" man like yourself is getting wound up over an internet post.

Dipshits.

[ColoWayno]

Since you were only mostly dead, wait 2 hours before you go in swimming. Have fun storming the castle!

[Greg C]

if you dont like the thread, don''t respond to it,

Ok, this is a valid point, and I usually follow this advice strictly. For some reason I got irrationally irritated by the post. No excuses.


plenty people have responded and found it useful.

Ok, but really, this is SB. Unless of course plenty = 2.



Asking me how young I am is dumb, live by your principles and ask yourself why a "mature" and "old" man like yourself is getting wound up over an internet post.


You're correct. It is fairly obvious from following the board that you are fairly young, so it was a "dumb" question. One of the luxuries/inconveniences (temporal perspective) of age and experience is occasional frustration with the young. Unfortunately, I am as yet still immature enough at my "old" age to get wound up by this occasionally and vent. I'm working on my temper still. But, since that wasn't "mature," I've revised my original post to more reflect a "proper" approach.

[PVC]

if you dont like the thread, don''t respond to it, plenty people have responded and found it useful..

I highly doubt anyone has found this thread to be useful.

[knkavo]

I highly doubt anyone has found this thread to be useful.

It seems LT has.

He just wanted advice which some people were happy to give him, even if the answer might have seemed obvious to others, or if the topic had been addressed before on this board.

Sure, he may be a bit aggressive and annoy you sometimes, but even I annoy people sometimes, which just goes to show there is no accounting for taste because in my opinion I am a super-cool guy who is above reproach.

[sergeant_81]

LT, as much as you and I antagonize each other, I see some similarities. Like you, I would much prefer to have a hard-and-fast rule about everything related to training. Goodness knows it would make it easier.

What I'm finding out is it's all highly individual and the little things such as meal timing have to be learned, rather than dictated (and they don't matter at all if the big things - which are, for the most part, hard-and-fast rules - are not being done). I've found that I lift better on a somewhat empty stomach, but I will drink half a gallon of milk during a training session. I cram the food in after. That recommendation might make another trainee sick - and maybe it's actually not what's best for me. Chances are I'll know much more about what good meal timing for me is a year down the line, as will you.

[gzt]

Depends on how big. I like to put at least an hour between major food consumption and training. Maybe half an hour after finishing off some milk. I imagine for a really big meal, I'd need even more time. I usually eat something light a little more than an hour before training.

[gamedog]

My schedule just kind of dictated that I eat my first lunch at 1, and since my gym is right here where I work, and my work schedule influences when I can get to the gym, I get there and start working out at 2:30.

For lunch I usually eat two cups of nuts (one cup of pistachios, one cup of almonds), a HUGE spinach salad, and half a baked chicken (or a turkey leg and turkey breast if the wife has cooked me a turkey) and two huge glasses of milk. Haven't ever had a problem working out an hour or so after eating that meal, and I seldom deviate from that menu. Once I'm back from the gym, I eat another spinach salad, the other half of the chicken, and drink more milk. That's my second lunch, followed by continual snacking on more nuts and baby carrots, until my 5 o'clock protein shake. My first dinner follows at 7:30...

I'm never starving and I've never shit myself in the gym.

[DaveSev]

cheeseburgers as a pre-workout help me lift big

they also made me fart one my third rep last time i deadlifted, so the potential distraction may not be worth it.

[2big2fail]

LT, as much as you and I antagonize each other, I see some similarities. Like you, I would much prefer to have a hard-and-fast rule about everything related to training. Goodness knows it would make it easier.

What I'm finding out is it's all highly individual and the little things such as meal timing have to be learned, rather than dictated (and they don't matter at all if the big things - which are, for the most part, hard-and-fast rules - are not being done). I've found that I lift better on a somewhat empty stomach, but I will drink half a gallon of milk during a training session. I cram the food in after. That recommendation might make another trainee sick - and maybe it's actually not what's best for me. Chances are I'll know much more about what good meal timing for me is a year down the line, as will you.

Funny thing is, the more experienced you become as a lifter the more you realize that there are no rules. Just some general guidlines and of course, the fundemetals. Training is constant work in progress. You're always making tweaks and changes depending on where you are at a particular point in your training on that given day. The ultimate goal, of course, to make some sort of progress to whatever you current goal is. That's why you don't always necessarily have to train harder...but smarter.

If training were merely a laundry list of things to do...that would take the fun out of training. Personally, I like being my own coach and figuring my way through training problems. We all want results, but you have to learn to love the process.

[simonsky]

how long after a BIG meal would ou say it's safe to workout..

I've lofted in a full stomach before.. Not a good idea.. Not a good idea to exert your body, whilst at the same time your body is exerting itself tryign to produce enxymes to break down your food.

I'm gonna leave it for 2 hours.


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