Healthy and filling lunches are simply gold in the middle of your day. They can sustain you for a busy afternoon of work and prep you for an afternoon training session. A healthy and balanced lunch will ensure you don’t get to the end the day feeling depleted and heading for snacks before dinner. Tucking into a lunch that is full of both flavour and nutrients will have you feeling satisfied and ready to tackle the afternoon.
Some days it can be enough to get through training, work, and family commitments. We may all be aiming to eat a nutritious diet to make sure we are hitting peak performance. However, come 5pm you might find yourself in a mad rush through the supermarket it can be hard to be inspired, let alone healthy. Meal planning and some prep work can go a long way to avoiding this trap, and it doesn’t need to be complicated, insta-worthy or even take a lot of time. Here are our best tips for meal planning to make sure you have nutritious meals ready to go in a flash.
As training for any endurance event including cycling ramps up, your time on the bike will increase. The intensity and duration of your sessions will increase, and so will your body’s carbohydrate demand. Fuel your body well both before, during and after training, and the performance results will start to show. Here are five handy tips for fuelling your longer rides for your peak performance.
The moment your training or workout finishes you enter the ‘recovery window’. The focus is to make the most of the training you’ve done, and then recover well so you can prepare for the next session. The recovery window is all about replenishing glycogen stores, rebuilding muscle protein, supporting your immune system and replenishing fluids and electrolytes. Let’s have a look at what to eat after training to maximise your recovery.
It is a common question, what should I eat before training? Or should I have anything at all? Am I better starting training fasted or fuelled? While some people swear by early morning fasted workouts for their fat burning benefits, others will perform better in intense or longer training sessions after fuelling up first. So,…
It is quite simply the most common question we hear from you – what nutrition do I need to use in training? And more specifically, how much fluid, when to have carbs, what about electrolytes, should I add protein?? No matter what new exciting product or promise is out there, your basic nutrition needs are…
It’s no secret that whether you’re in the gym, on the track or in the pool, proper nutrition is essential to maximise your workout. Pre-workouts supplements are marketed to athletes and active people as the ultimate fuel, providing an instant energy boost and helping you to power through your workout. However, will they give you…
A common question we are all asking right now is, how do we keep fit in isolation? With many races cancelled and even regular exercise restricted for athletes right across Australia, our routines have to change. That can be hard, both physically and mentally, and many athletes feel that by slowing down they will lose…
Electrolytes: Essential to life Electrolytes are minerals that carry an electric charge when they are dissolved in a liquid such as blood. The blood electrolytes—sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate—help regulate nerve and muscle function and maintain acid-base balance and water balance, essentially controlling the shift of fluid in and out of cells. These minerals derived from the earth’s crust,…
We might all debate what the perfect ‘healthy’ diet is, but we know that eating whole-foods including a wide range of nutrients and avoiding sugar and processed foods is vital. While we might aim for the perfect diet, it’s not always that easy.
Whether it’s a heavy training load, lack of access to fresh produce, or little time to prepare fresh food, we can sometimes miss out on vital nutrients. Supergreens powders are an easy way to increase your daily nutrients, so let’s explore the benefits they can bring to your health and immune function.
