Top 10 nutritional tips:
- Drink 2-3 litres of water on non training days to help boost your metabolism and training days up to 5 litres to ensure the body is fully hydrated as de-hydration can affect performance and concentration.
- Stay away from fried foods and saturated fats as high in calories and hard for your body to digest.
- Consume only essential fatty acids, Flaxseed Oil supplement or C.L.A.s
- Eat plenty of good carbohydrates (porridge, wholemeal pasta, etc) and protein (tuna, fish, turkey etc)
- Protein and recovery shakes are great after a hard workout and easy to carry
- Eat 5-6 smaller meals spaced throughout the day this kepps your metabolism boosted and helps gain all the essential nutrients from each individual meal
- Read the labels of foods before you decide to consume them
- Low fat does not always mean low calorie. Check calories and sugar levels
- Be careful of high sugar juices
- Use sweeteners or honey instead of sugar. Sugar cause’s lots problems to our body, such as increase in weight gain, tooth decay, diabetes etc. Honey is a great natural tasty alternative
