Nutrition Considerations for Athletes Over 40

Nutrition Considerations for Athletes Over 40

Do Your Nutrition Needs Change Over 40? These days it’s not uncommon to hear someone say “40 is the new 30” and so on for every subsequent decade. Age categories don’t mean what they used to in the 20th century. Advances in medicine and better living conditions have...
4 Mistakes to Avoid this Off-Season

4 Mistakes to Avoid this Off-Season

  Maybe the term OFF-SEASON doesn’t resonate with you. This phase of your training cycle can also be called the transition cycle or transition period.  This annual period of rest is important because it allows you to recuperate from the season and lay the...
How to Eat the Week Before an Obstacle Course Race

How to Eat the Week Before an Obstacle Course Race

I want to preface this by mentioning that there’s no miracle foods you can eat the week of your race that are going to erase months (or a lifetime) of poor eating choices. Also, changing your diet the week of a race is likely not a good idea in general. With that...
Spartan Beast Nutrition Strategies

Spartan Beast Nutrition Strategies

Fueling for Spartan Beast I get a lot of questions about fueling for longer races like the Spartan Beast. As I mentioned in a previous blog, IF you have an ideal performance diet and show up to a race with a full supply of glycogen, it only provides about 1,400 to...
The Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

The Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent Fasting – Not Just for Weight Loss If you want to lose fat, improve metabolism, and experience other health benefits all without giving up your favourite foods, intermittent fasting might be for you! It’s an emerging area of research and the results are...
Athlete Nutrition Profile: Rea Kolbl

Athlete Nutrition Profile: Rea Kolbl

I know you’re curious about how the elite and professional OCR athletes eat, train and live. The Athlete Nutrition Profile I did on Ryan Atkins was very popular, so I wanted to continue this series and start interviewing more athletes on their nutrition and...

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