Feeling better and improving your sports performance can go hand in hand when you take steps to improve your nutrition while implementing a well planned exercise routine.
To begin taking steps toward better health and athletic performance, it’s important to understand that both the exercise you do and your daily nutrition impact your metabolic efficiency, which is how well your body burns fat both at rest and during exercise. This, in turn, has a big impact on your health and athletic performance.
It’s also important to understand the quality of food and ingredients that you eat directly impacts your overall health and longevity.
In order to be metabolically efficient, you’ll need to implement both nutrition and exercise strategies.
And in order to improve your overall health and longevity, you need to be aware of that the food available today is not the same food our grandparents ate. Prepared food and processed food can contain ingredients that impacts the health of our guts and our overall health.
First let’s start with what being metabolically INefficient results in.
Metabolic inefficiency leads to:
- Poor utilization of fat
- A roller coaster of blood glucose levels
- Cravings
- An increased need for supplemental carbohydrates
- Higher risk of GI distress
- Increased body weight and fat
- Increased risk of disease, such as diabetes, inflammation, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and obesity
Being metabolically efficient, on the other hand, leads to:
- Better blood sugar regulation
- Less cravings
- No GI distress
- Weight loss and fat loss
- Steady energy
- Improved mood
- Lower calorie needs
- Improved sleep
- Lower risk of disease and better long term health
What’s the best way to take steps towards better health and athletic performance?
Metabolic Efficiency Training is a strategy toward better long term health and better sports performance. It’s not a diet. It’s choosing the right food, the foods you enjoy, while keeping goals and progress in mind. And as athletes, goals and progress are things we’re all familiar with.
One of the key aspects is making sure you get the correct amount of protein you personally need.
Now maybe the first things that popped into your head are high protein, keto, or low carb diets. But it’s definitely not that. It’s ensuring you get the correct amount of protein which will help stabilize blood sugar. This leads to all the health benefits listed above.
A simple way to get started with this is to first think about the protein in every meal before it gets crowded out by everything else.
What’s the best way to take steps towards overall health and longevity?
Start by reading the ingredients of the food you eat. Be aware of how much of your nutrition comes from prepared or processes foods, and how much of it comes from whole foods or food you prepare yourself.
Start by taking small steps toward simpler ingredients, less artificial ingredients, and more home cooking.
If you’re looking to begin your steps to better health and athletic performance, look into our Nutrition Coaching.
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