Plan your hydration around these variables for a better race, match, meet or training session. The goal of sweating is to get water to evaporate from your skin, causing cooling. There are four environmental factors that influence your sweat rate: temperature, humidity, solar radiation and wind. Learn how they impact your hydration needs and drinking […]
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July is Berry Month! Berries, those tasty nuggets of nutrition, provide benefits fresh or frozen (skip the pie filling). Besides the usual ones available in stores, farm stands often have additional types that can provide new flavors. Some are weeds; mulberries, I’m looking at you! What is a berry? From a botanical perspective, berries are
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Does the Mediterranean Diet support your sports performance goals? What is the Mediterranean Diet? The Mediterranean Diet consists of traditional foods eaten in countries that surround the Mediterranean Sea. It’s also more than just a diet, it’s a lifestyle that includes meals with friends and family and red wine with those meals. Some studies, cookbooks
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Yes! Easily meet your needs with a well-crafted strategy! We’ve all been there. We don’t have a nutrition plan for endurance events! We sign up for an endurance event, train hard for months, even travel across the country or the world for this event, and then crash and crash hard because we haven’t fueled correctly.
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Understanding our process will improve your experience and we’ll be more successful in our time together! Curious about how I get from a phone call to a list of sport-specific guidelines and some meal recommendations? Here’s an overview of the Nutrition HeartBeat process for working with a new athlete as well as a list of
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