Olympian Nicola Fairbrother talks to sports nutritionist Alan Murchison about eating optimally, aligning food with training load and what to include on a weekly shopping list.
Thank you, Nicola, that's very interesting and helpful. It's great to receive nutritional advice from an accomplished, knowledgeable chef, and not a puritan who hates food.
Just like you, I did a lot of terrible nutritional choices when I was competing. I wish my coaches were better informed about this in those days. Now that I am coaching, I spend time with my competitors discussing what will be the best way for them to maintain a healthy weight so they don't make the same stupid mistakes I made cutting weight. I tell them better to fight up a division and be strong, than cut and hardly be able to fight. Thank you so much for sharing
I guess our coaches just didn't have the information around them either at that time. Getting quality nutritional help is a must I'd say for anyone considering competitive sport, and especially a sport like ours where weight management is such a large part.
Muy interesante y buenos consejos para competidores y para todas en general. 😃
Thank you, Nicola, that's very interesting and helpful. It's great to receive nutritional advice from an accomplished, knowledgeable chef, and not a puritan who hates food.
Hi Portia, it really really is. A lot of time healthy eating is made a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Alan really talks a lot of sense.
Just like you, I did a lot of terrible nutritional choices when I was competing. I wish my coaches were better informed about this in those days. Now that I am coaching, I spend time with my competitors discussing what will be the best way for them to maintain a healthy weight so they don't make the same stupid mistakes I made cutting weight. I tell them better to fight up a division and be strong, than cut and hardly be able to fight. Thank you so much for sharing
I guess our coaches just didn't have the information around them either at that time. Getting quality nutritional help is a must I'd say for anyone considering competitive sport, and especially a sport like ours where weight management is such a large part.