Nutrition
 Nutrition can play a pivotal role in supporting the training and competition demands of any elite athlete. Food alone will not make you throw the javelin another metre or knock seconds off your personal best, but the right diet is absolutely central in supporting training to make those achievements possible.
Good food choices help ensure fuel needs are met to promote adaptations to training, to aid recovery in order to continue and intensify training and to ensure good health to prevent illness and injury...
One of the most fascinating areas that a Personal Fitness coach can help you explore is nutrition. Far more than a method of achieving weight loss, nutritional strategies are essential building blocks in reaching high levels of fitness. What's more, proper nutrition will enable you to maintain your health and attain total wellness.
While most people tend to focus on nutrition only when thinking about losing weight, your Personal Fitness coach will show you how to utilize nutritional skills to achieve maximum energy and vitality. After all, it's important to properly fuel your body in order to reach your fitness goals. To this end, your coach will help you focus on nutrient-rich, energizing foods.
In order to achieve long-term success, your Personal Fitness coach will help you establish new nutritional "habits" that will keep you moving in the right direction. You are what you eat!
Carefully planned nutrition must provide an energy balance
and a nutrient balance.
The nutrients are:
- Proteins - essential to growth and repair of
muscle and other body tissues
- Fats - one source of energy and important in
relation to fat soluble vitamins
- Carbohydrates - our main source of energy
- Minerals - those inorganic elements occurring in
the body and which are critical to its normal functions
- Vitamins - water and fat soluble
vitamins play important roles in many chemical
processes in the body
- Water - essential to normal body function - as a
vehicle for carrying other nutrients and because 60% of the human body is
water
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