Nutrition and Fuelling – Four Part Blog

Firstly, understand there are two parts to this – day-to-day nutrition and fuelling for training, performance and recovery.

Day to day nutrition is what you to consume each day and this is paramount to your overall health and well-being.

A big focus of many age groupers is weight loss and body composition, as well as trying to syphon through the endless information out there about this topic. If you’re concerned, engage a professional.

Otherwise I think there are some simple rules that run true for most, regardless of age, body composition or eating preferences:

– Don’t under eat
– Don’t over eat (watch your portion size!)
– Eat real food where possible
– Eat minimal amounts of processed foods and refined, packaged foods
– Eat to your needs. Lots of activity = eat more, less activity = eat less
– Lots of fruit and veg and lots of colour
– Don’t believe everything you read
– Supplements should be an add on and top up to the foundation provided through your diet
– Hydration is separate to calorie intake

Next week we will look at fuelling for training and racing