Ive heard that taking some flax oil before fasted morning cardio is a good way to tap into the fat stores? any truth to this?

Ive heard that taking some flax oil before fasted morning cardio is a good way to tap into the fat stores? any truth to this?

Well, if you are having a spoonfull of flax oil before cardio then it is no longer fasted cardio. You are ingesting ~145 calories. If it is low intensity steady state, I would just stick with fasted. However, add flax in throughout the day because I DO believe that it helps with fat loss if you are in a calorie deficit. I think this is especially true on a lower carb or nutrient timing diet.

Ingesting flax oil or any fat of any kind before cardio is not going to magically make fat stores more available to be burned for energy, no.

So the answer is, no, there is no truth to this.

~SC~