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I was doing my nightly website blogging and came across Joe Friels: Overtraining article. Much to my displeasure, he never came up with a clear answer. Honestly I’ve come up with a small list of things that happen that typically lead down the road to being overtrained. 1 – Canker sores. Yes, breakdown of your mouth [...] My light reading material at the moment is “Biochemisty Primer for Exercise Science”. If you want the hardcore science in what your body is doing, without the physics, have a gander. Although if your not interested in reliving your high school or University days, let me share some of the interesting thoughts. The [...] Is there such a thing as healthy candy? I don’t think so… Wikipedia’s definition of candy is: a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added. The word candy comes from the Sanskrit meaning “piece of sugar”. Hard to believe any food item which is defined [...] Protein/Carbohydrates/Fat This week I’m paying careful attention to how my body reacts to a 30/50/20 diet. On Monday, I plugged the percentages into Excel to see how much of each I’d have to consume at each meal. Here’s the breakdown: Calories Protein Carbs Fat 3000 900 1500 600 gms 225 375 67 The 3000 [...] In case you are trying to make “good choices” and find yourself heading toward the words “organic”, beware! Appearances CAN be deceiving: MYTH: Organic companies are small and environmentally friendly. Find out where your food comes from. You’ll be surprised. If you think that tiny little organic food company has a halo over [...]
You are what you eat. So you eat ham, are you a pig? I eat mostly healthy. Like you eat veggies with gravy? I don’t have time to make supper. But you have time to watch 2 hours of tv? I hate cooking. Is turning on a stove that complicated? Food is such [...] Here is some great tips for making a protein shake. I like to add spinach to my shakes for added goodness! Visit the site here. Step 1: Start with ice Use 1-4 cubes for a thin, chilled shake Use 5-10 cubes for thicker, pudding-like consistency shake Step 2: Pick A Fruit Step 3: [...] Here are some great tips from Ben Greenfield for avoiding gas build up. If it hasn’t happened to you (thank your lucky stars!) it may at some point. Endurance athletes need heavy amounts of carbohydrate based fuel. When this sugary fuel meets up with the bacteria in your stomach, digestion and fermentation produces [...] Below is a startling image of how Americans are eating. In a world with so much variety, you’d think people would expand and try new things. Not so. This is a great read which was found in the Journals of Nutrition. The trend toward lower-cost diets Americans are consuming more refined carbohydrates, more [...] Spinach, it’s one of the most nutritious vegetables you can eat and considerably more delicate than other leafy greens. Because of this, it’s easy to overcook, which makes it drab and unappealing. Spinach is filled with flavonoids, which may have antioxidant properties, and its plentiful vitamin K (1,000 percent of the daily recommended [...] As athletes we eat a lot or at least we think we do. Checkout some of the eating records below…. 24″ Pizza 7 1/2 Extra Large Bacci Pizza Slices 15 Minutes/ July 9, 2005 Richard LeFevre 16″ Pizza 45 Slices/Famous Famiglia Pizza 10 Minutes/October 13, 2008 Joey Chestnut Armour Vienna Sausage 8.31 pounds Armour [...]
I don’t eat as healthy as I should. It’s not that I don’t care about my body, I do…to some degree…but rather I feel the problem lies in the fact that I listen too carefully to my body.
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