by Melissa Boufounos | Jul 8, 2020 | Nutrition
In the past few years beetroot juice, bars and powder have been making waves on the market as new and natural performance-enhancing products. These products claim to promote extended exercise endurance, improved energy and stamina, maximized exercise efficiency,...
by Melissa Boufounos | Jun 15, 2020 | Nutrition
Have you heard of RED-S syndrome? When it comes to obstacle course racing, RED-S isn’t referring to the shades of blush, rose and scarlet your face turns as you sweat it out and push your body hard to the finish line. RED-S actually stands for Relative Energy...
by Melissa Boufounos | Jun 9, 2020 | Nutrition
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the dangers of low body fat levels for female athletes. Today, I want to focus on the risks for male athletes. The concept of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) emerged in 2014. Sports professionals recognized...
by Melissa Boufounos | Jun 3, 2020 | Nutrition
“Hey Melissa, I want to lose 10-15 pounds in the next 6-8 weeks before NORAMs” I remember when I got that private message from an OCR athlete. I wish I could say it’s only happened once. Since I started MB Performance Nutrition in 2015, I have...
by Melissa Boufounos | Jul 25, 2019 | Nutrition
As a Certified Holistic Nutritionist who helps OCR athletes around the world consistently achieve their personal best performance and as an OCR athlete myself, I hang out in a lot of Facebook groups full of OCR athletes and spend most of my days talking to athletes....
by Melissa Boufounos | Feb 17, 2019 | OCR, Nutrition
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...
