Most of us are daily runners, or we all just do some exercise to maintain our fitness.
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But today while I was on performing my daily morning routines, this question struck in my mind from nowhere
Is it healthy to exercise on an empty stomach?
So I did a small research on this topic and found some convincing results.
Let us start this post without bragging anymore, right?
Below I will discuss it quickly without taking most of your precious time. ( The real reason - I'm lazy I don't like to write long)
So back to our topic
The main reason behind working out everyday is to burn our extra fat in our body. These fat will effect our appearance and it leads to some major diseases in our body viz Cholesterol,Heart failure and it goes on.
So how do these fats stay in our body.
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Here comes the science part.
Fats ( also known as triglycerides) are acquired through consuming food items. At that time our intelligent human body breaks down its complex structure and it is allowed to pass through our blood stream.
This is where the real purpose of fats take place.
Fats are mainly used by our body to create energy to sustain in hunger state. It is a necessary factor for survival. That's why most of us able to stay alive and active for some hours without having food.
In the bloodstream most of the fats are utilised but at all times we consume more than we want(Over eating and inactive lifestyle). In these cases body starts to store the fat for later use. Like I said above. If these stored fats increases exponentially we will have to face some diseases later on.In order to mitigate these cases we all are doing workouts everyday.
So what happens when we workout on an empty stomach.
Imagine you are running as usual without taking any food. So our body starts to sweat and struggle to get more energy for you to run.
So if you haven't any food body depends upon the stored fat in glycogen, breaks down it to glucose to regain your strength to continue workout for an hour or more. In the case if you had a little food just before getting out of your home, body depends upon the fat flowing through our bloodstream rather than stored fats.
As a result normally burning of fats reduce here.
Conclusion
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Yeah it is better to perform workouts without having any food in the morning.
We should take a lot of warm water in the morning just after waking up. It has more positive effects in our body( I will explain this in my coming posts). After drinking water do your routine, wear your workout clothes, tie your shoelaces and get out of you house for workout.
Stay Happy
Stay Healthy.
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