Sports Nutrition

Stumped with how to balance your nutrition and workout? Let these four tips guide you:

1. Stay Hydrated

One of the most important elements to incorporate into your weekly workout schedule is your hydration.

You lose a ton of water as you sweat; losing too much water too quickly can inhibit your performance.

Some essential vitamins and minerals also leave your body with your sweat. You should think about replacing them by drinking something that contains electrolytes during and after your workout.

2. Eat After Working Out

If you want to build muscle, you should be eating after you work out. You need to replace the nutrients your body has lost during exercise.

Your muscles need protein for amino acids. These are used to repair the damage caused to your muscles from working out. Having a small amount of protein after a workout will help you build lean muscle. 

3. What Are Macronutrients and Micronutrients?

Two terms you have heard a lot in the context of sports nutrition, but you have no idea what the difference is!

A good diet for athletes isn't as complicated as you think! Micronutrients are vitamins and minerals. Macronutrients are proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Simple!

Health for athletes involves a balanced combination of both micro and macronutrients.

You need protein for muscle growth and repair; enough protein can also help with avoiding sports injuries. You need carbohydrates and fat to give you energy.

4. Don't Overeat

It can sometimes be tempting to eat more because we are training a lot. But in reality, that can lead to weight gain. Consuming more calories than we burn in a day causes weight gain, even if you're training every day! 

If you want a more in-depth breakdown of how many micro and macronutrients you need each day for your body type and the types of sports you're doing, try tracking your meals.

Trying to maintain a healthy weight or lose weight? You need to be calorie neutral or in a calorie deficit at the end of the day.

Personally Tailor Your Nutrition

There's no one size fits all guide to sports nutrition. We all have different needs and different levels of activity. Some people burn energy quicker than others; some store fat more quickly. 

You need to figure out what works for you. Tracking your workouts, food intake, trial, and error and speaking to a sports nutritionist can help with this.

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