When I began thinking about this article, which was only a few hours ago, I wondered if I should call it “Day in the life of a Paleo-Athlete” or “A natural running day” but then I thought better of it because our hunter-gathering ancestors were not athletes in the way we understand it today and…
Well-reputed endurance expert Phil Maffetone provides many of the guiding principles we use in our coaching here at ChampionsEverywhere. His focus on “training slower to go faster” and keeping things simple and natural have direct roots back into Lydiard’s system and when in doubt about how to approach broader issues relevant to performance, such as…
This article shows a sample day’s food choices for an athlete doing an aerobic workout. This is our athlete: A 56.6-kg female runner with an average body fat percentage of 24.4% (meaning she has 75.6% lean body mass). The runner has a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) of 1282cal. She did a 90-minute aerobic workout at…
As the demands on your body change as you progress through the training phases of our programmes so will your body’s nutritional requirements. To ensure that you always get the best out of your training, we suggest you closely follow these guidelines which will tell you on what nutrients and food groups to put your…
This article shows a sample day’s food choices for an athlete doing an aerobic workout. This is our athlete: A 70-kg male runner with an average body fat percentage of 10% (meaning he has 90% lean body mass). The runner has a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) of 1730cal. He did a 90-minute aerobic workout at…
In this article, we want to give all athletes a quick reference to what they should eat and when.
