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Nutrition Tip for Marathon – Week 6 Train your gut, practice your race-day fueling.
【】 Generally the purpose of the pre-race meal is to top off your glycogen stores, breaking the fast, and rehydrate the body from an overnight dry spell. Practice this nutrition plan on upcoming long runs and days that might simulate a ... -
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Nutrition Tip for Marathon – Week 5 Keeping the radiator full: avoid overheating when going the distance
【】 【】 Don’t start your workout one step behind. Any fluid deficit that is incurred during a workout can potentially compromise the next session if adequate fluid replacement does not occur. Therefore, it is important to replace flu... -
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Nutrition Tip for Marathon – Week 4 Heat, Humidity, and Hydration – going beyond water.
【】 Your body’s primary mechanism of cooling during activity is sweating. As the temperature and humidity rise, so does the rate at which you sweat. In your sweat, not only are you losing fluids, but also valuable electrolytes (minera... -
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Nutrition Tip for Marathon – Week 3: Re-fueling Your Recovery
【】 The absence of recovery nutrition keeps the body in a negative energy balance, meaning your body will continue to breakdown protein, glycogen, & fat. While the fat after-burn is nice, continuing to breakdown glycogen & prote... -
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Nutrition Tip – Week 2: You know, your mom was right after all – failing to plan is planning to fail.
【】 When you’re short on time and your days are hectic, plan ahead! Prepare a travel pack with snacks and beverages that support your performance eating plan. Items that travel easy and meet the nutritional needs of an athlete are trail... -
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Testimonials: Bree Hinkle – Former Division I UIC Basketball Player
Photo: www.uicflames.com Masa is very gifted at what he does. I was injured in 2009 with an ACL tear and it was the worst experience of my life. After multiple surgeries, Masa helped rehabilitate my knee and complete my collegiate goals ... -
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Nutrition Tip – Week 1: You Can Never Out-Train Poor Nutrition
You Can Never Out-Train Poor Nutrition Sure you will improve your fitness, but unless you fine tune your nutrition like you do your training, you will never know your true potential. This fine tuning does not require you to read chapter ...