One of the oddities with nutrition is that we tend to eat roughly the same thing throughout the week.
Most people have very similar breakfasts and lunches, from day to day and then will alter slightly their evening meal – although most triathletes seem to revolve this around pasta!
NOT GOOD!
Then at the weekend………
Well, its a free for all.
Eat and drink at will – I know what goes through your head:
“I am doing all this training, I can get away with it.”
Can you though?
The best way of telling is whether you are losing body fat – if not and you want to, then clearly you can’t get away with it.
The thing is, theoretically we need to eat differently on different days, depending on the training we do – or don’t do for that matter.
It will come as no surprise that on some days we will need less and others more.
We will also perform better on different types of carbohydrates at different times.
There will be days where we can drastically reduce calories and get away with it and others where we can’t.
Getting this right is the true secret to optimising your bodies fat burning potential and in a word, getting:
LEAN.
All without sacrificing performance, after all there is no point in being lean if you are 1 min a mile slower on the run.
So how do you do this?
Whilst it’s not complicated, it is beyond the scope of this email.
It’s something I am going to discuss and help with in the coming week in my private coaching group – The Total Triathlete:
On what days to eat more
On what days to eat less
On what days you can get away with junk/alcohol
On what days to slash carbs
On what days to load up
This is paid for content at £10 per month ($12 ish).
Along with the above you will get on sign up:
A FREE copy of my E-book
Access to the private Facebook page, where you can share your nutrition and have me personally critique it.
Some people post daily and have me point them in the right direction and then guess what:
They lose fat!
If you want in, hit the link below:
Jamie “Get involved” Leighton