I recommend you don’t eat a meal right before P90x. Each workout is intense enough (some more than others) to require not eating a meal at least an hour beforehand. Large or heavy meals may require you to wait 2 hours before exercising.
Why You Don’t Want To Eat A Meal Before P90x
When you start to exercise, your muscles require more blood. Digestion requires blood too. So when you start to exercise with a full stomach, you starve the stomach of blood and energy. As a result, eating too much before exercising can cause you to feel sluggish, nauseated, or it can give you stomach cramps, or diarrhea.
Doing Plyometrics with a full stomach would probably be the worst idea. With all that jumping, you definitely don’t want to do it within an hour of just completing a big meal.
You may be able to handle eating a small, easy to digest pre-workout snack, like a piece of fruit, which will digest quickly.
In summary, if you’ve just eaten a big meal, you may need to wait 1-2 hours before your stomach can handle working out. However, if you want to snack on something before you start exercising, a piece of fruit is a great, easy to digest pre-workout snack.
