Can your coffee encourage you to enjoy your gym trips? This is the core question of a prominent research on caffeine and exercise. It is just one of the numerous novel experiments going on to suggest that caffeine may assist you to enjoy your sport more and perform better. For various scientists and athletes it ...…
To maintain adequate amounts of blood glucose throughout the day, it’s important that you pay attention to the following: meal timing, composition, and the amount of food that you ingest. Pretty simple, huh? It’s important that you keep your body fuelled throughout the day by distributing calories evenly because this plays a huge role in ...…
What do I need to eat the night prior the race? Do I have to follow a special meal, or a strict diet the day before the actual race? Am I allowed to have a beer or a glass of wine? Performance The performance level of any athlete depends on different factors such as genetics, ...…
Before deciding to take any nutritional supplements, you first need to have a good reason for doing so. It should be based on scientific and medical evidence, and not just based on what your training partner or friend is doing. It’s a good idea to talk first with your doctor and/or nutritionist, and much better ...…
Everyone knows that the best way to manage weight is to eat less and exercise more. However, the prescription is now changing because nowadays, doctors and health scientists recommend that we eat more in order to manage our weight. Many diet experts are now modifying the advice they have been giving for decades. Changes The ...…
Appetite is very important, especially for athletes. Appetite is the body’s built-in mechanism to regulate food intake, and it does its job by giving you the drive to eat enough to meet your body’s micronutrients and energy needs. The appetite mechanism under normal circumstances works very well and, obviously, it would never be able to ...…
Athlete or not, a person should always include whole foods in his or her diet. When consuming different natural foods, you will get all the nutrients your body needs, assuming you have no deficiencies or medical need for specific supplementation. Get Back to Strength Optimal recovery from strenuous exercise needs a replenishment of ...…
A food journal is a simple tool that you can utilize in determining and addressing problems that are affecting you that could be attributed to any nutritional cause. Why Keep a Food Journal? In keeping a food journal, you can write down what you eat and drink. You can use this information to identify potential ...…
Smart Substitutions Taking in hunger-killing appetizers will help you trim calories from your diet without even increasing your hunger. Another option that you have is by making small, strategic food substitutions on your meals so that you can reduce your calories without decreasing the amount of food that you eat. Below are 10 different types ...…
Proper nutrition is one of the most important aspects of your triathlon training. Nutrition is, however, the most easily overlooked of all training aspects of any triathlon training program. We tend to focus so much on conditioning and not on fully optimizing our training. We have all heard the saying “work smarter not harder”. To ...…
