Sports Nutrition

Posted on July 20, 2009

I read a great post from Joe Friel’s Blog this morning that I enjoyed. Just wanted to share a piece of it:

“Generally, if you are in decent shape and the workout lasts less than two hours all you need is water, assuming you had a meal sometime in the last few hours before starting the session. For such short workouts you really don’t need all of that sugar or the other stuff (protein, sodium, magnesium, vitamins, minerals, etc) we’re told are some how necessary for sports performance. For optimal health and sports performance simplify your diet.”

– Joe Friel [via his blog post here]

Read the full post for his guidelines on making food selections for athletes.

The bottom line: There are tons of sports nutrition products out there. Just because a product promises to do something doesn’t mean it actually does it. Keep your body fueled with real food as much as you can.