Sometimes junk food serves a purpose.
While a trip down walmart’s little debbies and hostess aisle usually means you find yourself in the land of beached whales, and may be on the path to the same circumstance,
if you don’t suck at life you won’t join their herd.
Visiting that aisle is a necessary evil, because there you find the best preworkout…honey buns.
Now I’m the guy who has a very low tolerance to stimulants.
I’ve taken a preworkout maybe twice at my buddy’s urging, and allowing his peer pressure to sway me once drank a bang energy drink.
Usually, if I really want to get hyped, and am willing to deal with the feeling of “I have to shit now” combined with frequent peeing I’ll mix a little instant coffee with cold water.
I have made “hyphy mud” on a few occasions, fancy with pepsi and inexpensive with generics, and feel if you need more than that you need to cold turkey stop taking stimulants.
When that’s the case you need to redevelop those burnt out sensors, as your tolerance is too high. A small amount of coffee should be enough.
A couple years ago, in this bad place mentally, I would go to the gym no earlier than 10pm, often lifting alone in the building at 2am.
That month or so saw me regularly doing a “preworkout”, I’d put a few ounces of milk in a shaker cup, and stop into a 24 hour place for a honey bun or two. Usually eating in the store’s lot, I’d have good energy within the half hour or so till I hit the gym floor.
Today (7/13/20) was a day where I didn’t think I’d go to the gym.
Not wanting junk food much anymore, I’d been craving honey buns for a day or two.
Thinking the day was off from the gym, I went to the store instead.
Among other things, I purchased some honey buns, then once home recalled how well they served me as a preworkout.
I poured about 4oz milk into a glass, ate one honey bun, and took the shot of milk.
I ended up having a great lift.
(On what was nearly an 18 hour fast, I had the aforementioned roughly 300 calories in me.)
Now sugar despite it’s bad rap, in the right times can be useful.
Sugar has a stimulating effect, that I find relatively level as opposed to caffeine.
Sugar does help with nutrient partitioning, bringing the nutrition where it needs to go.
Cheapo junk food sugar, in honey bun form, works for me as a preworkout. If there is too much sugar, I tend to blunt it with milk fat as I take it.
Of note ; gatorade can serve the same purpose as the honey bun, as easily utilized, fast acting energy. Honey buns get preference as gatorade can give me a slight cramping stomach ache when drank fasted before the gym. Gatorade shines as morning hydration in the heat if I wake up thirsty, and can still go back to sleep. I was doing that in Cali.
Sugar, despite all the bad shit written about it, is energy, easily utilized energy at that.
Give a honey bun or two, and maybe a few oz of milk a shot as a preworkout.
It works for me.
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