Why You Need These 5 Powerful Nutrients 

 

Why You Need These 5 Powerful Nutrients

Why You Need These 5 Powerful Nutrients

| August 25, 2010 | 0 comments
My working definition of sports performance nutrition is “identifying the whole food sources that contain the basic micronutrients and macronutrients necessary to sustain energy during athletic events, replenish muscle glycogen stores following exercise, repair and build lean muscle tissue, and reduce overall systemic inflammation following rigorous activities or injury.” This is a working definition, and thus can be augmented. Since knowledge is...
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Nutritional Needs According to the Demands of Your Sport (Part 1)

Nutritional Needs According to the Demands of Your Sport (Part 1)

| August 14, 2010 | 0 comments
I am often perplexed at some of the popular "mass-appeal-diet-books" that proclaim tasty cuisine with fat burning and muscle preserving qualities. Each dietary approach may have its own merits, but oftentimes they fall short of addressing the needs of athletes. Athletes have specialized needs which include sustained energy release during competition, aggressive fluid and electrolyte replenishment, increased intake of supplements including antioxidants and...
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Nutritional Needs According to the Demands of Your Sport (Part 2)

Nutritional Needs According to the Demands of Your Sport (Part 2)

| August 13, 2010 | 4 comments
Current research suggests that athletes need a more detailed approach at nutrition to reflect the metabolic and physiologic demands of their training or competition.A. Nutrient Strategies for Athletes using the ATP-PC System: Athletes engaged in sports that require ballistic muscular contractions with maximal force production have unique amino acid requirements. In a recent study, competitive sprinters and jumpers completed two sets...
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Categorizing (and then eating) “Superfoods”

Categorizing (and then eating) “Superfoods”

| August 6, 2010 | 6 comments
What exactly is a “superfood”? For those involved in agricultural technology or the biotech industry, the term “superfood” may conjure up images of massive rows of tomatoes and corn that have been bioengineered to be resistant to herbivores, to have longer shelf lives, or to grow in dry climates. Among the natural health, holistic wellness, and organic food communities, superfoods...
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Overview of ACL Injury Prevention Training

Overview of ACL Injury Prevention Training

| August 3, 2010 | 32 comments
Injury prevention training integrates strength training, proprioception (sensing your knee's orientation in space relative to other body parts), joint stability, flexibility, and producing controlled neuromuscular patterns for jumping, landing, and cutting. Naturally, the preseason approach for an NFL lineman will be different than that of a recreational skier or soccer player. Addressing the biomecahnics involved, individual sports, or individual techniques...
Durability
Injury Prevention Primer: Rotator Cuff

Injury Prevention Primer: Rotator Cuff

| July 29, 2010 | 4 comments
Pitchers, volleyball players, swimmers, and tennis players are all at risk for some form of rotator cuff pathology. An injury prevention program should integrate strength, flexibility, postural control, remedial exercises, strengthening the lower and middle trapezius muscles, general conditioning of the torso and hips, as well as teaching sound throwing mechanics. Other issues such as age, previous injuries, off season...
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Periodizing workouts decades before P90X

Periodizing workouts decades before P90X

| July 29, 2010 | 16 comments
Understanding the concept of periodization is essential for athletes and amateurs alike. The end goal of this approach is to be more efficient with your time, while striving to obtain athletic skill, build lean mass, burn fat, and improve strength, power, and/or stamina. Elite athletes, strength coaches, and exercise physiologists have embraced this training theory since Romania and the Soviet...
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Injury Prevention Training: Who needs it?

Injury Prevention Training: Who needs it?

| July 23, 2010 | 3 comments
The last 10 years of my life has been devoted to training high performing individuals, predominantly competitive athletes, helping them move more efficiently, compete with greater intensity, and build top level speed, strength, and durability. I am passionate about this area and enjoy helping friends and clients achieve their goals.The fields of sports training and rehabilitation sciences have advanced in...
Durability
Eat this: Alaskan salmon and “Ocean’s Alive” fish

Eat this: Alaskan salmon and “Ocean’s Alive” fish

| July 22, 2010 | 38 comments
Pratt and Matthews 2004 book “Superfoods” is influential in the performance nutrition space since it illustrates 14 categories of  nutrient dense, restorative, and supercharged foods. Some foods are everyday items, while others are often eschewed by consumers on an average supermarket trip. It is one of a few books that I regularly recommend to my clients. In this section, I...
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Welcome!

Welcome!

| July 21, 2010 | 2 comments
Often times, I am approached by family, friends, and clients to ask me about the mechanics of a complex lift, to ask about new nutrition research, to give feedback on the most efficient 30 minute workout, or just to debunk some claim about a “miracle” Hollywood something-or-other. Sometimes accurate responses require research on my end, and then a written message....
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