The lunch time to evening workout period in terms of food is an area many of you slip up on in sometime alarming numbers.
The problems that are created by not taking on enough food and fluids during these times can make all the difference.
Let’s assume you manage to eat breakfast daily, snack healthily and then have a decent lunch, if you don’t eat for the next few hours until you train at let’s say 530pm, what will happen is a dramatic period of low energy just as you need it most.
Then a low level performance is bound to happen, and in general a lot more people than you think can occasionally feel a little dizzy and light headed, DESPITE not training any harder than usual, quite often less in some cases.
You have to put regular fuel in the tank or you are not going to be able to put regular good performances in, simple as that.
We try to run a professional programme, and the idea is that you improve rapidly but safely.
So we put all that effort in programme design, we try to get the intensity of the workouts just right, and we try to make sure you don’t do exactly the same thing every day.
So the missing link for many of you has to be the afternoon sleepy time of day, when two things go through your head.
Either you think that “if I eat before training I will feel sick” or “there’s no point in eating this afternoon because I need to cut my calories to lose weight”!
BOTH OF THESE ARE PLAIN WRONG.
Take your fuel on board regularly and hit your training with an abundance of energy, then you will have a great performance and you will never have a light-headed experience again!
