Another brilliant quote and lesson learnt from today's Run Bristol event. It refers to the 'triangle' of factors to key into training to aid each other - training, recovery and nutrition. It's compared to as a triangle because if one faulters others are effected.
I've learnt that the amount of rest and recovery training I can give myself allows my body to 'recharge' and recovery to continue to physically train, as well as decrease the risk of injury.
The other lesson I learnt is eating more and more often is better than either calorie counting or storing carbs'. The idea is that you fuel yourself to be able to train for longer and harder in order to achieve goals. Having said this the 'fuel' I'm putting into myself has to be healthy and also provide enough protein and carbohydrates. This should be constant as well, including days of physical recovery to be able to aid the body to recover. This has really helped me understand what I should be eating and stop being paranoid of eating too much, but actually make sure I'm eating correctly and the right amount to help my training. My new eating schedule is - A large breakfast of either eggs, bagels or cereal and fruit, followed by a mid morning snack of fruit and oak cakes (what I used to eat for a full lunch!), followed by lunch of salad, pasta or jacket potatoes, then an afternoon snack of rice cakes and yoghurt and finally a normal sized healthy dinner. Other good advice I got was to eat within a hour of exercising - eating within the first 5 minutes will help reciver quicker - to stop sugar crashing. The only thing I then need to change is the day before the race is cut out prootein and eat only carbs'. The target is to eat often and well, not to feel hungry and to fuel my body to achieve better, so therefore fuel it well.
All of this should aid the phsyical training and I've learnt to see them all together and not separate matters that could help - they are one and if you get that right you become a running jedi!
I've learnt that the amount of rest and recovery training I can give myself allows my body to 'recharge' and recovery to continue to physically train, as well as decrease the risk of injury.
The other lesson I learnt is eating more and more often is better than either calorie counting or storing carbs'. The idea is that you fuel yourself to be able to train for longer and harder in order to achieve goals. Having said this the 'fuel' I'm putting into myself has to be healthy and also provide enough protein and carbohydrates. This should be constant as well, including days of physical recovery to be able to aid the body to recover. This has really helped me understand what I should be eating and stop being paranoid of eating too much, but actually make sure I'm eating correctly and the right amount to help my training. My new eating schedule is - A large breakfast of either eggs, bagels or cereal and fruit, followed by a mid morning snack of fruit and oak cakes (what I used to eat for a full lunch!), followed by lunch of salad, pasta or jacket potatoes, then an afternoon snack of rice cakes and yoghurt and finally a normal sized healthy dinner. Other good advice I got was to eat within a hour of exercising - eating within the first 5 minutes will help reciver quicker - to stop sugar crashing. The only thing I then need to change is the day before the race is cut out prootein and eat only carbs'. The target is to eat often and well, not to feel hungry and to fuel my body to achieve better, so therefore fuel it well.
All of this should aid the phsyical training and I've learnt to see them all together and not separate matters that could help - they are one and if you get that right you become a running jedi!
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