Being an athlete requires peak fitness and a carefully honed diet. It’s not just about putting calories in your body, the best results will come when you focus on nutrient requirements to quickly repair and build muscles.
Between mental and emotional health, immune system, muscle recovery, sleep habits and heat tolerance, there are lots of things to consider. Here are a handful of suggestions to chew on.
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A nutrient-packed smoothie can help you hydrate and prepare for some pedal-pushing power. Vital to a good workout is balanced and easily digested energy beforehand. It’s important to consider the type of workout you’re doing and the required levels of carbs and protein.
This Mango-go smoothie is the perfect setup for a shorter high-intensity workout with its blend of healthy complex carbohydrates and fibre, which supplement your glycogen stores. The banana, date and ginger fuel you with energy and vitamins and the chia seeds will give you a little kick of protein.
Physically and mentally drained after your sport, you walk through your door past your dog who’s furiously licking the sweat from your legs. You’re spent, but you know you have to muster the energy put together a post-workout recovery meal.
As the body loses electrolytes through sweat, you’ll feel symptoms like muscle cramps, fatigue, nausea, and mental confusion. And if you’re not replenishing with the right amount of carbs, electrolytes, fats, fluids and proteins you’ll experience increased muscle damage and free-radical buildup—Making you feel weaker and weaker with each sweat session.
You were riding along at good pace, focused and energized… then seemingly without warning your legs turned to cement, you begin to lag behind and the muscle-trembling feeling of hunger and nausea sets in—Get home quick, cause you’re going to bonk!
Your ability to run, bike, ski and get zesty in any activity that exerts yourself, hinges on the capacity of the body to extract energy from food. Riding strong and steady is about eating the right amounts of the right foods at the right times. And drinking adequate amounts of water! Continue Reading…
The chia seed may look unassuming, but it grows to over twice its size when soaked in water and it packs an incredible amount of nutrition into its tiny package. Chia possess established athletic benefits and consuming a single tablespoon of chia seeds a day will help your body utilize the food you consume more efficiently.
First domesticated by the Mayans over 2,000 years ago, cacao from coco beans is one of the most nutritionally complex foods on earth. Cacao is the main ingredient in dark chocolate, but it has nearly four times the antioxidant power of your average dark chocolate. Continue Reading…
For athletes, Maca raises energy in a balanced way: Maca boosts energy, but it does so in a balanced way, unlike caffeine, carbohydrates or sugar which often spike and drop quickly. Maca gives you increased endurance and muscular stamina which allows you to work out longer and more intensely. Continue Reading…