On your Marks.

Don’t stumble at the starting blocks. Opt for staying in the best performance mode, with the best nutrition success.  These two goals can happen, but first, what are your stumbling blocks? Does the wrong composition of calories provide a performance-limiting link? Is nutrition during your training ride or race the same as non-race intake? Does your everyday lifestyle get in the way?  Would it help to have any of the following skills?

• To be proactive in my training program with foods/timing/nutrition
• To be strong in resolve to follow my nutrition plan, but not food obsessed
• To be resilient, and not feeling wiped out long after training
• To act to assure diminished muscle wasting
• To be successful to lose weight at the appropriate training interval
• To be knowledgeable of glycogen loading and exhaustion, carbohydrates for immediate recovery, and protein to start rebuilding muscle

Get Set.

What we are talking about is nutrition during training, including water, calories, and electrolytes; any weak link may be a performance-limiting link. This is a highly individualized effort, from person to person, and sport to sport, and whether training, pre-race, post-race, and non-race. Work with your individual sport nutrition RD coach to get your numbers.

But, knowledge is not king here if you are unable to carry out your program. Preparation takes focus and the term lifestyle comes up here.  In our lives, the everyday factors affecting food habits are monumental in affecting our ability to meet our two goals of staying in the best mode, and achieving the best nutrition success.   In order to change food habits, becoming aware of the following “Triggers for Unhealthy Food Intake” is the first step to the resolve to counter them:

• Body triggers:  fatigue, pain
• Thought triggers:  dwelling over past events, worrying about future ones
• Feeling triggers:  anxiety, criticism fears, and the list goes on
• Food triggers:  proximity, aroma, or tastes: sweet, crunchy, salty
• Business/Social triggers:  “I’ll have what they’re having”

Resolve any “Conflicting Intentions”.  Ask yourself, what is the discrepancy here? “I  kept water and energy levels high, and expected to finish with the club (and experienced a performance-limiting link related to electrolyte levels).  Or, “I want my individual performance to improve, and I figure I can eat the same foods as everyone else.”   Have you some of your own?

Go!

• Receive MD assurance for your medical fitness for your program at this point
• Stay hydrated, one of your true determinations of today’s athletic success and tomorrow’s energy level
• Write down, for the next three days, a log of what you eat and drink
• Get a one-on-one diet plan for your sport/level of activity/or specific nutrition goal

Learn to stay in your best mode.  Get the best custom plan design with sports nutrition RD Mya Steinhardt’s  www.myadiet.com Sports Nutrition Program www.myadiet.com sports nutrition.

To contact Mya, call  760 – 271- 3629 or email  info@myadiet.com.