10 Best PRE WORKOUT Meals | What to Eat Before a Workout | What to eat Before Gym | pre workout food

TIMESTAMPS:
#1 Best Pre Workout Meal: Bananas 1:19
#2 Best Pre Workout Meal: White Rice & Brown Rice 1:38
#3 Best Pre Workout Meal: Oats 2:07
#4 Best Pre Workout Meal: 100% Whole Wheat or Brown Rice
Pasta 2:26
#5 Best Pre Workout Meal: Whole Grain Bread 2:48
#6 Best Pre Workout Meal: Baked Potato 3:01
#7 Best Pre Workout Meal: Green Smoothie with Fruit 3:22
#8 Best Pre Workout Meal: Ezekiel, Turkey or Chicken Wrap 3:42
#9 Best Pre Workout Meal: Apples and Peanut Butter 4:06
#10 Best Pre Workout Meal: Power Bars & Protein Bars 4:36

People respond differently to eating before a workout. Some people can get a better workout if they eat before hand because of the energy that this food will provide. Meanwhile other people can't eat before their workout without feeling nauseous and it interfering with their performance. There is no set in stone answer for whether you should or shouldn't be eating before your workout, it all depends on what helps your perform better in the gym.

For this video lets pretend that you're the type of person that responds very positively to eating before a workout. The big question that you probably have is what should you eat to maximize your performance? I want to give you the 10 best proven pre workout foods.

1. Bananas - These are great because they're easily digestible, and provide your body potassium, which you'll be needing because I"m sure you're going to be sweating really hard during your workout. Any fruit before a workout could help, try mixing it in with some protein source such as fat free Greek yogurt.

2. White Rice and brown rice mix. This was always one of my favorite pre workout meals. You eat the white rice for fast easily digestible energy, and you eat the brown rice for slower digesting longer duration energy. When you have both your energy levels should stay high throughout your entire workout. Have this with some chicken breast or legumes

3. Oats. Oats are another slower digesting carb because they provide soluble and insolluble fiber. They also contain B vitamins which is the vitamin responsible for converting carbohydrates into energy. A good meal would be oats, some fruit, milk, almond milk, or water, and some protein powder.

4. 100% whole wheat or brown rice pasta. This is another one of my favorites something about pasta just gives you tons of energy. Throw in a solid protein source with the pasta and you'll killing it during your workout.

5. Whole Grain Bread. If you don't have time to cook this is a quick, easy, and convenient way to get your pre workout carbs in. You can have this with some hard boiled eggs for protein.

6. Baked potato. You can have a yam or a sweet potato as well, but the baked potato will be digested and available for energy faster than the sweet potato. You can have this with some fish or any kind of low fat protein that you like to eat with potatoes.

7. Green Smoothie with fruit. Whats a better way to go into your workout than with all of your micro and macro nutrients available for use. To make this smoothie just blend up some green veggies like kale, chard, broccoli, and spinach with some fruits. You can add a scoop of protein in this smoothie to have your protein needs covered.

8. Ezekiel turkey or chicken wrap. Ezekiel wraps are hard to work with, but if you heat them up before hand their more malleable. If you really hate how crappy Ezekiel wraps are regular multi-grain wraps will be okay too. Double wrap your turkey or chicken with two wraps to increase carbs if you need the extra calories and energy.

9. Apples with Peanut Butter. This meal is not the best pre workout meal because of the fat found in peanut butter, but if you really don't want to eat a whole meal having some apples with peanut butter can give you the energy you need for your workout. This meal is not for those people that take forever to digest their meals, because that peanut butter will still be digesting while you work out.

10. Power Bars and Protein Bars. Although this is not one that I would refer to as the greatest pre workout meal it could be a real life safer if you can't get to any real whole food. Power bars are good to give your body the carbs it needs for energy, protein bars are good for...you guessed it protein.

Now I want to real quick answer all pre workout meal timing questions.
How long before your workout you should eat these foods is another question that is very dependent on the individual. If you have a fast digestive system then you may want to eat your pre workout meal 30-60 minutes before your workout. On the other hand if food tends to take a while for you to digest you may

[jamesstewart]

If I wake at 06.00, I workout fastest but if I workout during the day I like to have a shake around 1 hr b4 the workout, this is usually 1 scoop protein, cinnamon, banana, tbsp peanut butter, 1/2 cup oats with water.
Thought I would put this out there if anyone is interested 😁

[elenatricoli]

butter+pasta? my italian heart stopped working

[schprox]

finally, someone who gets right to the point.

[jenGeeJushawshee]

Thanks for providing a variety of sources and reasons why! Good video.

[AC-rgrb]

Great info, straightforward and the visuals made it more memorable. Thanks!

[chelseasawyer]

Sweet potato vs Ezekiel bread pre workout? Curious what will digest easiest and fastest and which is better for longer workouts?

[Eagle-Striker]

The pre-workout depends on how many minutes you have until hitting the gym. If you dont have 75-90 minutes (thats the minimum limit for oats) then consume bananas because they digest super fast. Avoid meat since that takes hours. My ultra best pre-workout meal is an old recipie from a swiss doctor (Dr. Bircher). I do 50g of oats, 150g of yogurt, 25g of unflavored protein powder, half an apple grated, 15g of nuts chopped and 3 squirts of lemon juice. This works absolute best for me and lets me hit the gym after 75 minutes. Try it out

[Verbsdescribeus]

i ate before after and during the workout and today i completed 57 hours at the gym in 2 months :)

[twoods]

Your vids are very informative and fun to watch!
Best fitness channel on YouTube by far!!!!

[gymreaper]

Two boiled eggs, orange, & a bowl of oatmeal with some blueberries is what I eat before my workouts everyday it works too.

[jaylenebiesemans]

What can I eat before my workout I work nights so I have only half an hour to eat and I have to jog to the gym so I have one hour before I do my workout
Else what can I eat after too

[michaelv]

I really enjoy your videos too.
Have you ever looked into food combining for facilitating digestion? Proteins & carbs at same meal greatly hinder digestion.

[coolz]

I have a question. I'm not sure if this exists in America, but in the UK we have "healthier bags of chips" versions, although I am not sure if they are boarder line okay to eat before workout, or if it should be completely avoided. These bag of chips have a reduction of 50% fat and although I know there are much better sources, my question is, is it fine to consumed 50% reduced baked chips (contains sea salt) before workout?

[gregnatjo]

At one point I was thinking you were going to say we have to eat snail which made me want to throw up. But than I realised the snail was only there because you were talking about slow digesting.. Good vid btw

[marami]

is the time you mentioned will be the same if I will do cardio or weight training???.... I do weight training for 30-45 minute and then 1-hour cardio, and I eat before it 2:30 to 3 hours is it

[dustywilson]

is there a way to alter the speed of my digestive system ?

Thanks.
DW

[skrgirly]

Healthy fats from nut butters (peanut butter should stay away from) avocados, & other natural sources are actually really good for you and necessary for brain functioning...

[nikolairomanoff]

Thank you for this! Very informative!!!

[artistaprimus]

Great info. What foods instead of grams of protein and so on

[wilyumfalcon]

What do you think of
Green machine drink.
I heard its junk?