Combining Fitness, Diet and Work

Sigerson

Hi all,

I'm on an internship at the moment and am living away from home.

I work 9-5 and I get an hour long bus home from the office.

I have recently joined a gym which is located right next to the office.

I'd like to know what is the best way to manage eating for the gym.

For example, if I go to the gym 5-6 then I won't be home till 7 and then I would have to make food at that time and head to bed around half 10 as I get up around 7 each morning.

I'm afraid I wouldn't have enough energy for the gym with just a breakfast and a lunch.

Do you guys have any tips or what would you do in my situation??

Also, my current goals at the gym would be to cut body fat in case that helps with any advice.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Alf Veedersane

You can always just eat a bit more at breakfast and/or lunch and have enough fuel in the tank.

And do some food prep at the weekend so that your food when you get home in the evening just needs reheating or just eating.

Bring a lunchbox with a pre gym snack and maybe prep dinners in advance and freeze them or at least cook batches of two so you've one for the next day

Mellor

Bring a small snack before the gym if you feel you need a boost.

I train after work a lot, often a double session. I'll have a snack if I'm hungry, but not always. I don't think its as necessary as people make out based on my experiences. Realistically you'll only have finished digesting lunch, plan that properly and you should have lots of fuel later.

Blacktie.

Mellor wrote:

I train after work a lot, often a double session. I'll have a snack if I'm hungry, but not always. I don't think its as necessary as people make out based on my experiences. Realistically you'll only have finished digesting lunch, plan that properly and you should have lots of fuel later.

Yep agree with this a lot. Usually I wouldn't have eaten in the last two or 3 hours before a gym session. On Saturday mornings I would pretty commonly train fasted. Roughly 15 hours since my last meal.

Caliden

Go before work?

Cook your dinners/lunches for the week on Sunday evening so you can just pop them out of the freezer and heat them up.