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Training does not make you stronger, it weakens you. Only when your body recovers from the work out, and adapts, does it get stronger, faster, or more fit. That is why the recovery process is crucial to athletic success. A proper training plan carefully balances rest and recovery with training load. If your body is not recovered from your last work out, and you apply additional training load, you will further break the body down rather than build it up. Nutrition, sleep, stress, lifestyle, and training balance all play a crucial role in how quickly you will adapt to you training load.
If you are confused about how often, how intensely, and what type of work outs you should perfrom a coach can give you a basic outline of how a training week should look, and our registered dietician can set up an eating plan that optimizes recovery.
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| Accelerating Work Out Recovery |
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 Overtraining is generally the result of a buildup of workout and life stresses with insufficient recovery, not from a single workout being too hard. Overtraining really should be called "under-resting". Every good coach searches continually for the right balance of volume, intensity, and rest. Rest needs to be an active process, taking full advantage of every opportunity to get the athlete's body, and their mind, ready for the next hard workout.
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| Recovery Nutrition |
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 Rehydration, refueling, and rest facilitate the recovery process. Athletes benefit most when they take full advantage of opportunities to recharge in this phase. Training without adequate recovery wastes time and energy.
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| Pre- Built Running Plans Now available |
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| The Sport Factory now has pre-built running plans up to half marathon distance. These plans are for the athlete who would like to add efficiency, balance, direction, and prevent injury. Pre-built plans are at a lower price point that custom coaching, and include basic nutrition and training advice.
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| Spotlight-Ilana Katz, Sport nutritionist and Registered Dietician |
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| Well nourished bodies recover quicker from muscle soreness and derive more benefits from their strenuous, intense and lighter workouts. A failure to consider nutrition as an integral component of everyday routine will increase health risks and result in poor improvement rates. There is a great deal of scientific information on the relationship between good nutrition and physical activity, however, the overwhelming amount of misinformation makes it difficult for one to know how to design an effective nutrition strategy. As a sports nutritionist, I design key nutrition strategies that ensure individual nutrition needs are met and simultaneously provide and sustain optimal energy to compliment individual training needs. The ultimate result is fueling and maintaining elite athlete status in an appropriate and healthy manner.
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| Protein sports drink may boost endurance |
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| The study of 15 male cyclists found that a sports drink containing carbohydrates and protein appeared to boost endurance better than a traditional carb-only sports drink. It also seemed to lessen the muscle wear- and-tear that comes with intense exercise.
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