Pre-Run and Day before race AVOID · High fibre foods – brown rice, grainy bread, wheat cereals · Overly heavy fatty meals · Spicy foods · Simple sugars ie lollies, soft drink – this will spike your blood sugars and leave you feeling hungry soon after DO HAVE · Milk drinks, Up & Go Energize […]
Nutrition is integral to both health and performance. In order to get the most out of your performance, it is more important to ensure you fuel appropriately, which means fuelling properly before, potentially during (depending on how long your session is), and then immediately after for your recovery. Sufficient nutrition, particularly in daily energy intake, […]
WSER RACE REPORT 2022 – beware, its as long as the race! Western States Endurance Run. Wow. Its one on many peoples bucket list but so hard to nab a ticket that it’s a pipe dream for many. Year after year you have to maintain your ticket count by qualifying in a 100km event. So […]
LOSING WEIGHT AFTER 50……….AND KEEPING IT OFF When I was posting this article I was looking for some pictures of over 50’s being energetic and all google came up with was people that looked to be in their 70’s and 80’s! When did 50 become old? (apologies mum and dad). I myself am 47 this […]
Intermittent Fasting – The Pro’s & Con’s There is always a new fad diet around the corner promising to be the next best thing to help you lose weight – forget the rest, this is best, blah blah blah. Sound familiar? Research continues into the best ways to lose weight and fasting is the latest […]
Staying On Track OK – our latest challenge is over, the schools holidays are over, and it seems for some people that their will to succeed and desire to be great is also over! How soon we can hit that slippery slope of laziness and lack of motivation! You think you’ve put in the hard […]
Move to Improve your Gut, and Improve your Life Our microbes need us to move. Researchers have discovered that the composition of our gut microbes can be improved by exercise alone. How? The first experiment compared faecal samples from mice that were sedentary with mice that were active. The diets and living conditions of the […]
Performance Nutrition in Racing & Training The 3 primary substances you can ingest before, during and after running to maintain your activity levels are calories, fluids and electrolytes. More specifically it is most important to have Carbohydrate (CHO), Water (H20) and sodium (Na). (I’ve used the chemical symbols here as I’m a lazy typer so […]
12 Days of Fitness 2018