to be long periods between meals."RecoveryYou will probably gain a little weight no matter how careful you are, and nutritionists say that's fine and perhaps even beneficial in the long run. "The combination of winter and the off-season represents a threat
be achieved by an adequate and balanced diet alone. Further research echoes similar sentiments.Attempting to negotiate the murky waters of supplements is Anita Bean, author of The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition. Bean along with the British Nutrition
independent study, in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, to show that dark chocolate allows the arteries to expand and carry more blood. The benefit is thought to be due to the chocolate’s flavonols – plant micronutrients, also found in tea
If you're like many runners, you eat well 90 per cent of the time. Maybe you have porridge for breakfast, yoghurt as a snack, and wholewheat pasta to refuel after a run. These are all smart choices, but there's a way to transform these stalwarts
's better to avoid the pizzas that include high-fat meats such as salami. They contain fats that are most likely to induce gastrointestinal problems and will increase the likelihood of you wanting to go to the toilet during the run."GOOD CHOICE: Vegetable
but your tanks are empty. Your training was spot-on and your race was going well so what happened? Your nutrition strategy was wrong, that’s what, and now your body is making you pay. It has happened to the best, but the best learn from their mistakes. It
gastrointestinal problems and will increase the likelihood of you wanting to go to the toilet during the run.”INDIAN“You have to be careful with Indian food because a lot of the meat is cooked in ghee, which is clarified butter,” warns Currell. This means
This section is adapted from the book, Eat Smart, Play Hard, by Liz Applegate. You are not the average person. Youre the above-average person. You walk, swim, run, cycle, lift weights, play golf, or do some other type of physical exercise on a
instead of meeting friends for an early evening run. Here are some simple eating strategies that will keep you energised:Shrink your mealsRather than super-sizing your meals, keep portion sizes small to avoid stuffing yourself like a Christmas turkey
to nutrition, its definition evolved. The calorie we now see cited on labels (as kcal) is the amount of heat required to raise 1kg of water by 1 degree Celsius.Here's the problem: your body isn't a steam engine. Instead of heat, it runs on chemical energy
