Nutrition

The relationship between weight control and exercise is often obscured by a vast amoutn of misinformation. Discovering how and why exercise may or may not impact weight control efforts can involve working your way through several layers of myths, misconceptions, and just plan untruths.

Conderable data indicates that the safest and most effective way to successfully change body composition is to combine sensible eathing habits with a program of sound exercise including both aerobic training and weight training.

Rules of Performance Nutrition

  1. Always eat at least 5 times a day; two or three meals are simply not enough.
  2. In planning each of your daily meals (or snacks), a caloric ration of approximately 1 part fat, 2 parts protein, 3 parts carbohydrates is a good place to begin
  3. When you sit down to eat, ask yourself "what am I going to be doing for the next three hours of my life?" If you nap, eat fewer foods high in carbohydrates; if you plan to train, eat more foods with carbohydrates.
  4. You cannot lose fat and gain muscle at the same time, so you must accelerate periods of negative caloric balance with periods of positive caloric balance.