Pre practice food
14 May 2025 · 0 min
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Trail mix looks healthy but it's mostly fat, which your body burns slowly. Before intense workouts, you need carbs for quick glycogen energy, not the slow fuel trail mix provides.
Trail mix looks healthy but it's mostly fat, which your body burns slowly. Before intense workouts, you need carbs for quick glycogen energy, not the slow fuel trail mix provides.
One of the worst pre-practice fuels that you can eat, which people probably think is a really good thing, but actually isn't the best thing to be having pre-practice, is trail mix. Everyone thinks trail mix is gonna give you a lot of energy. If you're on a long hike, that's great. But if you're going to a really intense practice or training, it's not the best thing. Trail mix is full of fats. Your body uses fat as slow-releasing energy for more aerobic-type workouts. So long, long runs or walks. But for super intense workouts, your body is using glycogen for energy, which is coming from carbs.
