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Wednesday, 2nd April

The recovery of our members/athletes depends on a number of factors.

First of all, if you are beginning your exercise journey, then its always advisable to start gently. If you begin with more gentle training sessions, then you will need less recovery as you are breaking down less muscle tissue.

Once you begin training harder, you will be giving much more of an effort, so your recovery and how you handle it becomes much more important.

A really tough session will require you to put much more emphasis on eating really highly quality nutritious food. This will serious help you to replenish your energy levels and the broken down muscle tissue from your exercise session.

Then don’t forget, you will need to exercise a few times a week so you need to get ready for the next one.

This is why sleeping really well in the week becomes paramount.

Most people don’t realise that your body actually improves and repairs itself in your sleep. Its in your deep sleep that you really develop your biggest gains.

You can see a massive difference between those who eat and sleep well, compared to those who don’t pay attention to their food and always keep late nights.

I see a big difference between those who travel a lot for a living because eating on the road often means eating hotel food, petrol stations snacks etc which will do absolutely nothing for your performance in training (because you wont have the energy and wont feel up to it), and usually lead to weight gain.

This can become a vicious circle.

The equation to success is food and drink, training and eating, sounds simple but not many people get it right all the time.

This is what we are here for.

Twitt
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Wednesday, 19th March

Soft drinks and fruit juices

Calorie containing drinks are one of the biggest contributors to climbing obesity rates in the Western world. In fact, some people have created entire diets based upon one single principle – excluding soft drinks. But it’s not just pop that’s the problem.

The majority of fruit based drinks are loaded with sugar. It’s wise to avoid soft drinks altogether and stick to water, tea, coffee.

If you really enjoy orange juice for example, just have one glass in the morning with your breakfast, or better still eat a whole orange instead for the added fibre and vitamin C.

Eat to train,

Nicola.

Twitt
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Thursday, 30th January

Working as a team is always better when it comes to your family’s eating habits.

I see both sides of the fence, I train a lot of teenagers and I train a lot of parents, and they can both blame each other for their eating habits.

Your parents buy the food, they make the food and they actually put the plate in front of the kids in most cases. So the parents decide everything?

According to latest statistics this is not true, more and more teenagers are heavily influencing the family shopping, whether in the supermarket or through online shopping for groceries.

Over 50% of teenage girls contribute heavily to the eating choices, and a third of boys will say loud and clear what the foods should be in the household.

It doesn’t stop in the supermarket, most parents when surveyed said the kids were most influential when it comes to choices for fast food, snacks when they are out and restaurant choices.

So when teenagers say they have no control of what their parents give them, research says that if they keep telling their parents that they really want, then well made tasty healthy food with a bit of imagination should become a reality, as the parent is likely to eventually cooperate for the benefit of everyone in the family.

So if you are a teenager who is looking to get fitter and healthy, you had better keep on to your parents. The parent will be confused because for years you may have told them that you want Mcdonalds or pizza, or fish and chips and they got used to providing those foods that made you happy.

So changing your choices takes a while for the whole family to sink in.

If you are the parent, then usually you have got used to those “little treats” too, as you usually will get stuck in yourself! So change for you may be hard too!!

This is why when the teenager suddenly discovers that they really would like to be fit, healthy and strong, the parent needs to be completely onboard and live a healthy lifestyle themselves.

Expecting your child to be eating good nutritious food, while you’re stuffing yourself big time on sugary and fatty foods sets a terrible example, and will lead to a much big struggle in your child being successful.

Work as a team and the whole thing is much more likely to work!

Twitt
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Tuesday, 14th January

Willpower is the first thing you lose when you try to lose body fat or try exercising for the first time or the hundredth time!

The “gritting your teeth and I’m going to fight through this” speech you give yourself doesn’t need to happen anymore. You’re probably fed up of it anyway.

You need to stop relying on willpower and create a permanent lifestyle change where you can’t help BUT change and stay in healthy shape.

To do this, you need to identify the strategies to manage your weight, take better care of yourself, and creating a lifestyle that supports being healthy and in shape.

Even when you feel like giving up and giving in, everything in your world, how you think, how you feel, how you act, will keep you strong and in control.

You don’t need willpower because you will set up your lifestyle in such a way that you can’t help but be successful.

More tomorrow on factors stopping you reach your full potential.

Twitt