Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. Full disclosure, this is an AI voice. How cool. The rest of the Q&A is not. Enjoy. So do you want to do the first question? Yeah. Shall I go ahead now? Yeah. Okay. So I was wondering if there is any difference when to do weight training.

Heard from some coaches that it's better to train between meals so that the, I'm assuming

this is muscle, so that the muscle would grow more and from the others that there's no difference.

Basically, is it okay to train on an empty stomach

first thing in the morning? Yeah, I mean, it's a good question. And normally when people are arguing

about this, it's about, okay, what's practical versus what you actually, well, sorry, what's optimal

versus what you're actually going to do. If your goal is to build muscle,

then training first thing in the morning without having eaten is certainly not optimal, right?

But then you've got to think of, is that the only time of day you're going to be able to train?

Are you more likely to get it done if you just get up and do it first thing, in which case that's going to get you far better results than waiting until the optimal

time an hour after lunch when actually you're meant to be at work, you know, like, so you have to

think, okay, what am I actually going to get done? What's practical for me? What do you ever train

fasted? What do you, what's your sort of take on? Well, I do, but it's not because I particularly

have a, like a performance-related goal with that.

It's just probably because I have to work out first thing.

So it's usually between half six and half seven.

It's just, you know, my optimal time would be like 9 a.m., but that's never going to happen.

And my weight training is only like 40 minutes.

But like you say, if I'm more just doing enough

and that kind of suits where I'm at and find an ideal world,

I'd have like the best optimal programming.

But that's fine for me now.

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