Nutritional Therapy can help you maximise your performance and achieve your goals through a highly personalised approach to optimising your health and fuelling your training effectively.
Nutrition is vitally important to performance
If you are an endurance athlete, whether you are training for your first 5k or taking on a Deca-Ironman or anything in-between, the chances are that the wrong food choices are compromising your performance.
Many athletes only think about how their nutrition choices impact their performance in terms of what they eat before a race or during it, to avoid hitting the wall or bonking. Some will think about eating to optimise their recovery. But most athletes don’t focus enough on their nutrition, or feel too confused by the conflicting advice they receive and are paralysed in the face of a million difference supplements, gels, energy drinks, recovery bars, protein bars and recovery shakes that are pushed onto them by marketeers and on social media.
Have you ever taken a step back to get a bigger view of how your daily food and drink choices are impacting your ability to train, get the most out of your training, and maximise your potential?
What, when and how you eat on a daily basis has a huge effect on your health and wellbeing, influencing myriad things that are vital to your athletic performance:
– energy metabolism
– immune system
– hormone function
– mental focus
– gut health
– weight
– digestive health
Are you optimising all of these areas? If not, then you are undermining all your hard work in training and leaving your potential unfulfilled.
Nutritional Therapy can help you
I work with people who want to maximise their performance by establishing a foundation of good health..
You might be struggling to lose weight through your training, or fitting it in to a busy and stressful life. You may have an underlying health condition that is holding you back, or be at a stage of life where your hormone balance is changing and you need help navigating this. Perhaps your diet or your race-day nutrition let you down in your last race and you want to improve it for next time. Or you may just want some help to get more out of your training to give yourself the best possible chance of achieving your goals.
Traditionally, sports nutrition takes a one-size-fits-all approach, and will tell you to eat a set number of calories a day, with a set % from carbs, protein and fats, and to consume 60g of carbs per hour during long training sessions and races. But how often does a one-size-fits-all approach actually fit anyone perfectly? If its designed for the average person, then how can it take into account the things that make you an individual? As a fully qualified and registered Nutritional Therapist, I take a different approach.
I will undertake a detailed, holistic analysis of your unique diet and lifestyle factors including your nutritional intake, food preferences, training load, limiting factors, health history and life stresses and pressures. From this, I will work with you to create a nutrition plan that is practical, effective and works for you. Crucially, I will then work with you to help you navigate any bumps in the road, so that you can implement changes effectively and see the benefit in your health, wellbeing and performance.
See services for more information or E-mail me to arrange a free, no-strings chat about how I can help you:
tom@the-endurance-nt.co.uk
The Endurance NT 