Every training session is an opportunity to become stronger, fitter, leaner or more skilled. Or with some luck, all of the above. Every time we train, we need to be training for a purpose. We should be setting out to achieve something.
Once we’ve identified what we’re doing it for, we have to finish the workout off with the best refuelling strategy possible. Even if you’re training to lose weight, you have to refuel after workouts to get the most benefit.
Your week should have one, two or three peaks. Key workouts which stretch your ability to recover. In between these key workouts, the other sessions are designed to help you to recover from, or prepare for the next one. Even on your rest day you should be eating to refuel your body so that you approach the next weeks training with enough stored fuel to make the workouts effective.
Going into the key workouts without enough stored fuel will not only make them painful, but it’ll mean that you’re unable to train at the necessary intensity to get the best improvements. You’ll be just wearing out tyres or running shoes with little benefit.
The average athlete has limited time available to train, it makes sense to make the training done, more effective.
I advise athletes to do what I do myself – follow every workout with Endura Opti – 3 scoops for a smaller workout and 5-6 scoops for a big weekend workout. The benefit from the 13% easily digested protein, and the 75% carbs, is that my body is reloaded and the muscles nourished with a drink which is absorbed in 20min. Using a similar structured meal of “real foods” can take up to three hours to absorb.
There are other similar products on the market, Pure Sport have a very similar mix. So does High-Five and a few others. Over the years I’ve tried most of them and find the Endura Opti works best for me and many of my athletes.
One of the noticable things which happens to an athlete when they start training with us, is that over six to ten months they become more muscular. Their body fat wilts away, and their muscles become stronger and more defined. It’s a fact that when a new athlete contacts me and goes on a training plan, I always ask for a three day food diary. 80% of new athletes are not consuming enough protein to support the endurance training they’re trying to do.
As soon as we adjust that part of their diet, they start improving, setting PBs, becoming leaner.
Make every workout count. Follow every workout with the nutrition which will give you the best benefit from that workout. Don’t finish the season at the same level and have a pile of worn out tyres and running shoes in the garage.
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