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EAT 2 PEAK: Planned Nutrition
Nutrition matters, as we learned that "you are what you eat". The truth of this ancient saying becomes even more significant as every cell in our body is replaced every six months! This means that the quality of your food will determine the quality of your body`s "construction". Or in other words: eat junk and your body will be made of junk!
So far, nutrition and sports nutrition have kept to a strictly quantitative approach, assuming that if only the exact quantities needed of each nutritional element are provided, the organism will function perfectly. Only focusing on what the food brings to the body, without taking into consideration its further assimilation, is an insufficient approach to nutrition.
This "approach error" in sports nutrition, causes a great number of athletes to continue to suffer from deficiencies, disease, chronic wounds or over-training, in spite of a very rational training program.
A qualitative approach to sports nutrition helps the organism to optimize the assimilation of different vital elements and nutrients, reducing the digestive time, sparing your organism an important supplementary fatigue. It may considerably diminish fermentation and putrefaction, possible sources of slow and progressive intoxication of the purifying systems.
From hunter and gatherer to athlete
The ambivalent « luxury » of eating many different types of food during the same meal is a relatively new habit, typically introduced as little as just 200 years ago. However, the human stomach has adapted over millions of years to digest according to our ancestor`s lifestyle. As they were hunters and gatherers their diet consisted of berries or roots (carbohydrates) for most days until they were able to hunt some meat (proteins). This, of course, resulted in a very dissociated digestion. Our digestion has become much more complicated, not just because of the sheer volume, but also because we often mix carbs with proteins during a meal. Carbo digestion requires acids, while proteins get digested with bases, which as you know are two substances that neutralize each other. The result - a much longer and more complex digestion process. Many nutritionists refer to our digestion system as in a state of « shock » due to a deficit in digestive juice. Worse still, we live with inadequate digestion sometimes from our early childhood!
Athletes cannot afford to waste lots of precious energy with a lengthy inefficient digestive process, one that does not allow for proper assimilation of important nutrients and, especially important, one that does not allow for detoxification of the intestine.
You can`t cheat your digestive system
The practical approach consists in providing the right nutritional combination at the most useful moment for the body. This is a guarantee for keeping the energy, hormonal and immune systems balanced. Wanting to restore one of these three without taking into account the others would be totally illusory. This approach seeks to respect the reality of our digestive - that is enzymatic - potential, which is plainly the result of 3 million years of adapting, or formatting. Only the food having constituted the formatting base can be transformed into useful sub-products for our cells (try to make your PC read a diskette formatted for MAC).
Organizing and timing nutrients, supplements, sport drinks and gels is one of the keys to optimizing the main body balances (energetic, immune, hormonal). Some important windows have to be respected so that these balances won`t be affected on the short and long terms. Imbalances would allow injuries, illness and fatigue to happen, like it often does to expert or pro athletes. In fact this "chrono-nutrition" will help the body to stay healthy instead of desperately trying to stay "border line" like many athletes do.
The 2PEAK Nutrition Plan is a practical manual that specifies when, what kind and which amount of nutrients are needed to keep the body in balance and ideally fueled while allowing for optimum recovery. You will find your 2PEAK Nutrition Plan inserted into the day view of your Training Plan specifying exactly when and how much of which nutrient to eat. Your goals (races), the volume and intensity of your work outs will generate your individual diet. The Nutrition Plan is part of the Gold Package or is an option with the Silver Package.
Make the most out of your potential. Discover the extra push that the specific 2PEAK fuel program will give you.
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