Athletics: Our Food For Life

Luke,

Thank you for your post. We will shortly further look into areas how we can effectively manage our nutrition to allow our bodies to perform at their peak and optimum performance levels. Before we dive into the topic, please share with us as to how at this point in time would be your idea of effective nutrition to allow for the body to perform at a higher or more optimal performance level?

let me leave you with this; when I approach this area my first question i ask myself is how am i going to adequately optimize and raise my athletic base? is it a variety of nutritious foods that will help me, maybe i am losing too much body salt and cannot replenish it adequately that is hindering my performance. Share with us what may be your construct at this point in time to address this question.

Thanks for your post

Regards
DZ

Jason,

Thank you for your post and congratulations for quiting smoking. That is a wonderful step that needs to be commended. I am glad to hear that you are jogging and gravitating to greater health and well being. Just a few things to keep in mind when jogging; look to time yourself over your specific course and try to better it each time, even if its by half a second it doesnt matter. This in turn will foster you to increase your intensity and gravitating to a higher athletic base that will help with blood oxygen flow, increase your VO2 MAX or lung capacity (i.e. incredibly important) and give you the ability to start adding other exercises and interval training into your program. Another point I must add is have a look into your diet, maybe each day try by eating an extra piece of fruit or an assortment of vegetables. We will shortly speak about nutrition in greater detail and the concept on nutrition density. I hope you enjoyed last weeks videos. Thanks DZ