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No eating before exercising??
I know that you're supposed to wait for your meal to digest before you begin exercising. But how long should you really wait? I know that it is recommended that you do not eat for at least 2 hours before yoga, for example...but I think that the time should vary by type of exercise.
I'm just curious.. I do two types of exercise the most: yoga/pillates, and cycling (moderate bike riding along the beach for around 2-3 hours every other week or so).
As an estimate, how long should you wait after eating, before starting exercise? It would be helpful if you mentioned the type of exercise (e.g, moderate, strenuous, etc.), and the digestion time for each.
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Basically, the standard is don't eat half an hour before any strenuous exercise.
Yoga/pilates I don't think is very strenuous at all, so half an hour would probably be the maximum time you need to wait.
I run, and I'll go for like three miles half an hour after a decent sized meal.
Two hours is a little excessive, because (to boost metabolism, anyway) you're supposed to eat every 3-4 hours. If you eat, then wait two hours, then work out, you'll have already started to burn a lot of the calories you had before.
It takes the stomach 20 minutes to digest, provided you didn't overeat, so half an hour should be sufficient wait time for basically anything.
Good luck
-Siren =)
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since yoga is not really all that strenuous i would reccommend you wait thirty five ;minutes before doing yoga to be on the safe side sorry i could'nt be more help also when doing exercise of any kind make sure to stay hydrated again oh i forgot to suggest you try to stay well nerished and hydrated like have fruit bar as apossed to just having a large meal before exercising with the fruit bar you wont be hungry and wont have to wait for a large meal to digest hope i could be of some help to you
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