by Melissa Boufounos | Aug 11, 2020 | Nutrition, OCR
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...
by Melissa Boufounos | Nov 6, 2019 | OCR
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...
by Melissa Boufounos | May 14, 2019 | OCR
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...
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...
by Melissa Boufounos | Aug 24, 2018 | Nutrition, OCR
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...
by Melissa Boufounos | Aug 8, 2018 | OCR |
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...
