Top Ten Sports Nutrition Tips to Level up Your Game. TIP #3

Tip#3

Nutrient-Rich Eating 

Eating a nutrient rich diet is all about optimizing the quality of the foods you eat. You can make a choice between eating a meal packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory properties, fiber, water, protein, fats and carbohydrates....or a food with very little of any of those. Athletes who choose to eat a diet filled with powerful and health enhancing nutrients will have the energy available to them to perform at their best.  

Making  the most of the foods you choose to eat will ensure that you will perform at your best and recover the most efficiently!  Whenever possible, choose foods, combinations of foods and meals that contain nutrients that will help fuel your body and/or help you recover from the high level of training that you are doing on a day to day basis.

For example, instead of grabbing a rice cake in the morning for breakfast, choose whole grain toast with avocado, arugula and flax seeds. Instead of grabbing a protein bar for lunch, stop and get a grain bowl with chicken, sweet potato, quinoa and spinach.  Instead of snacking on chips..make yourself a smoothie with frozen berries, a banana, and soy milk. They are so many delicious combinations of foods to explore and determine what makes you feel the best. Healthy eating is far from boring if you do it correctly. Be creative and focus on food you like and you will have plenty of go-to meals and snacks to be a nutrient rich eater!