My experience is that everyone wants to be a triathlete... right up until the time it comes to putting in all the hours of training you need to actually be a decent triathlete.
Also: the box-jumps he's doing there always make my knees hurt. This guy has good knees.
Also: the box-jumps he's doing there always make my knees hurt. This guy has good knees.
This is a great video! Very inspiring!
ReplyDeleteI'd love to get your thoughts on nutrition for triathlon (maybe both during a race, and also how to kind of eat every day during training).
Great blog. Keep up the good work!
Thanks.
ReplyDeleteNutrition is a BIG topic. I'll try to put a post--or maybe even a series of posts--up about it this week. But with that said, I don't think of myself as a nutrition expert by any means. I mean, I also like to drink beer a lot, too.
I guess my one biggest thing on day-to-day nutrition is that there is a lot of stuff out there that is sold as food that is, in fact, more properly thought of as edible non-foodstuff. So if you're consuming a lot of calories, but they are mostly non-food calories of calories that are redundant with your actual nutrition needs, you can continue to feel hungry even though you really shouldn't be because you've already eaten plenty. This is because your body will crave the things in needs while retaining as fat all the excess calories you consumed that's not-food. For example: soda, Doritos, bleached/processed rice, flour, etc. These things are not food. Eating them will make you fat; it will do nothing else for your that's positive.
Maybe this is obvious, but I now do almost all of the grocery shopping for my family because I have the dogged patience and determination to read labels, search for the least-processed alternatives, and basically make sure we are eating as much FOOD as possible and as little edible non-food as we can.
So, in short: eat a green salad every day, avoid processed foods as much as you can, and don't eat crap. That's what I'm telling you to do.