sports nutrition
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Sugar and Fat: Where sports nutrition meets your metabolism
Sports nutrition isn’t complicated. It’s just general nutrition with a little thought given to fueling the work you do in training. But when you learn about nutrition from a torrent of misinformation via social media, you have no chance of sorting sound information from good or bad advice. I’m not offering much advice in this…
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Heat Sickness Starts At Night
I had my second session with Kayla on a hot Saturday at a track new to both of us. 25 minutes into our work on acceleration mechanics – the positions you hit from your first step until you get to top speed – she wobbled, then passed out. Suddenly I was on high alert. But…
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Sports Nutrition Isn’t Complicated
Athletes are overthinking sports nutrition. ADULT athletes can ignore most of it. So here are the basics of eating as a grown-up athlete.
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I’m Lying About Supplements
Sometimes I start researching an athlete question only to realize I’m a delusional hypocrite. For example, my athletes progress and thrive on a limited menu of about 10 basic exercises, while my own training goes in circles with random acts of variety. In another example, I refuse to write training programs for athletes for at…