| Performance Nutrition |
Triathlon training is about progressively increasing the
amount of effort your body can sustain, with strategically
positioned rest periods, allowing your body to
overcompensate. While most think this way about
physical training, it is also useful to think this way about
nutrition in preparation for competition.
If you've looked at our nutrition page
(http://artfulchiropractic.com/Nutrition.html), you've
learned that our bodies work best on the combination
and amounts of nutrients found in whole food, as
opposed to isolated chemicals. Furthermore, because
amount of effort your body can sustain, with strategically
positioned rest periods, allowing your body to
overcompensate. While most think this way about
physical training, it is also useful to think this way about
nutrition in preparation for competition.
If you've looked at our nutrition page
(http://artfulchiropractic.com/Nutrition.html), you've
learned that our bodies work best on the combination
and amounts of nutrients found in whole food, as
opposed to isolated chemicals. Furthermore, because
isolated chemicals don't come packaged with all the other nutrients
needed for the body to use them, they deplete the body's stores of
those other nutrients. This means that by the time you get to
competition, your supplies of the vitamins and minerals you need to
perform are limited, and this can limit your athletic performance.
You may wonder why you can't get all these whole food nutrients by
eating just eating whole foods. The answer has to do with modern
farming practices that produce much high yields, but deplete the soil
of nutrients when used over many years. For this reason, most of the
food we eat is of lower quality than it was a hundred years ago.
Whole food supplement, such as those produced by Standard
Process, are grown as organically as possible to ensure the healthiest
balance of nutrients.
Like success in other areas, fixing this requires a proper approach.
Eating right to balance your blood sugar (keeping your glycogen
stores high), and proper hydration are a good start. The next level
involves whole food supplements to give you the vitamins and
minerals you need to process all that good food. Doing this over the
training cycle will condition your body that it has what it needs to
function at the highest level, and will allow you to push that much
harder come race day.
needed for the body to use them, they deplete the body's stores of
those other nutrients. This means that by the time you get to
competition, your supplies of the vitamins and minerals you need to
perform are limited, and this can limit your athletic performance.
You may wonder why you can't get all these whole food nutrients by
eating just eating whole foods. The answer has to do with modern
farming practices that produce much high yields, but deplete the soil
of nutrients when used over many years. For this reason, most of the
food we eat is of lower quality than it was a hundred years ago.
Whole food supplement, such as those produced by Standard
Process, are grown as organically as possible to ensure the healthiest
balance of nutrients.
Like success in other areas, fixing this requires a proper approach.
Eating right to balance your blood sugar (keeping your glycogen
stores high), and proper hydration are a good start. The next level
involves whole food supplements to give you the vitamins and
minerals you need to process all that good food. Doing this over the
training cycle will condition your body that it has what it needs to
function at the highest level, and will allow you to push that much
harder come race day.
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