Fitness
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Injured Athlete Nutrition
While the road to recovery involves numerous processes and support from a variety of disciplines, nutrition can clearly have a large impact on the healing process because the quality of the athlete’s rehabilitation and the athlete’s body composition matters when returning to play.
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Dear High School & College Athletes (and their parents),
Your strength training and nutrition are of utmost importance for both your physical and mental health not to mention your sports performance. It is the combination of these two things that lead to increased muscle, resilience, energy, and performance.
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Psychological Resilience in Female Athletes
Psychological resilience is an important construct that can enhance athletic performance and foster valuable life skills. That is the point of sports, correct, to foster life skills of hard work and resilience… By developing psychological resilience athletes learn to use positive adaptations to adversity and stressors in the athletic arena and ultimately develop personal growth.
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Nutrition Gone Wrong – Female Athlete Triad
a considerable proportion of female athletes will experience nutritional deficiencies at some point in their careers if we don’t start early and spread the word about real biological female nutrition. These nutritional deficiencies come through avoidable pathways like – inadvertent undereating, lack of knowledge, food insecurity, time constraints, restrictive eating habits, and eating disorders.
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Sports Nutrition – Game-Day Prep
I encourage all athletes and all athlete parents to be prepared during their sports seasons – be it a weekend-long tournament or a single game. Here are a few tips and meals I always have on hand when we travel.
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Injury Prevention in Female Athletes
Have you or a friend/family member experienced a severe injury while playing the sport they love? Yeah, my daughter too. In the past 2-3 years the amount of conversations I have had with other athletes and athlete moms regarding injuries has substantially increased. Something has to be done for our female athletes to help prevent…
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Tabata Cardio Workout
Training for a half marathon and for some reason this workout makes me feel more like an athlete than many of the other training days I do. My legs, abs, heart, back, and lungs all get a workout with this great routine. 3-minute jog to warm up (RPE 5/6) 4-minutes 20-second sprint 10-second rest (walk…
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Upper Body – Intensity Home workout
Fitness centers are wonderful because there is motivation all around, every weight training tool you can imagine and usually someone available to ask questions. When I left the fitness industry these were the things I missed the most, however, I love working out at home. It’s convenient, saves me travel time, I can workout in…
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AT Home Functional Fitness Workout – TRX
4 Rounds in Less than 30 min. Functional Fitness – TRX workout My 3x/week workout of choice
