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Category: Nutrition and sleep

All the great articles from the ‘nutrition’ category of the Elite Outdoor Fitness blog all in one place.

Essential Guide to Cortisol and Fitness Training  

Essential Guide to Cortisol and Fitness Training

Content Definition   Cortisol and Stress   Cortisol and Fitness   Conclusion and Top Tips   Definition of Cortisol  Cortisol is a steroid hormone that your adrenal glands produce and release. Adrenal glands are

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Meatless Proteins and sports performance 

In this article Nick takes a look a meatless sources of protein and how they can benefit your sports performance,

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What is the importance of fats

Healthy Fats

In this article Nick takes a look at Healthy Fats and what they mean for sports performance

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Nutrients and Sleep management for fitness and weight loss

Why I train
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Dietary Supplementation and Recovery

supplements and recovery

Dietary supplementation – how it effects recovery and how small changes to your daily lifestyle can influence your training and adaptations

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Nutrition Guides from Mountain Fuel

Mountain Fuel have provided us with some great advice on how to get the most out of your event.

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Performance vs balanced food supplementations

Food Supplements

How do you supplement your diet, what should you be considering in eating as part of a balanced diet when your training?

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The food pyramid and dietary guidelines are wrong

In this article JC explains why we got it so wrong in terms of diet

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Fasting and skipping breakfast aren’t mutually exclusive

Fasting is simply the act of abstaining from food for a given period of time. Perhaps most importantly, fasting is a detoxification and optimisation strategy, not a starvation method.

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Sleep and fat-loss

Sleep deprivation and deficiency are conditions that occurs when you don’t get enough sleep. However, this isn’t exclusive to quantity here, as quality may actually matter more.

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Decrease your decision fatigue through minimalism

Decision fatigue is the deterioration of our ability to make decisions – decisions which ultimately determine our success.

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Calorie Counting – ‘Calorie in’ isn’t the exact science many believe it is

I’ve never enjoyed counting my calories. Why? Because it’s not natural and eventually the numbers stop adding up.

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3 common nutritional mistakes that aren’t your fault

Great marketing techniques are the culprit for all 3 of the common nutritional mistakes I’m going to address in this article.

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Include progressive programming through strength and conditioning to improve your baseline S&C and robustness at a tendon, ligament, and muscular level. Move through running, cross country running and then fell running to allow the adaptations in your balancing muscles and coordination and thus agility. Advanced strength training to improve capacity to include training with weight over undulating ground when you are capable and efficient, to hill reps and weighted tempo sessions to build that strength lactate threshold and multi-system taxing above and beyond weight and duration of event.
Progressive running program to include cross training such as Bike work and strength and conditioning.
Inclusion of progressive Bergen weighted work on inclines at speed for tempo rate sessions to improve strength and lactate threshold, shorter duration rep work to improve VO2 max and power rate.
Quality speed work program with and without weight to improve your flat speed. Inclusion of some interval and tempo work on inclines. Cross country running to hit balancing muscles and improve coordination and overall flat speed. Later progress tempo into longer speed for endurance sessions.
Progression onto fell running with and without weight to improve strength and conditioning and power, thus allowing latter sessions to work hard off the beaten track to facilitate efficiencies at a coordination and balance level. Hill work with weight. Include cross graining on fitness days with weight or fell running, working hard on down hills.
Lighter inclusion into off road/track fell running to improve conditioning leg strength and balance. Progressive program to set training targets above goal weight and duration to improve capacity at higher rate.
Work hard at improving VO2 max and Lactate threshold levels, shorter power sessions to include hill reps, tempo work and strength and conditioning cross training such as inclusion of jump squats and burpees into interval sessions. Working towards speed over distance training between 1-3 miles x 4 with efficiency rate recoveries.
Increasing long slow distance, hill work and endurance sessions to allow for Mitochondria efficiency and increase. Progressing into heavy weighted hill running emphasis on incline and decline speed and efficiency midline rate. Progressing to be able to put the power down for extended periods. Strength and conditioning reducing in the latter period to take up the slack on increased capacity building.
Baseline strength and conditioning to improve flexibility, strength and coordination moving to deficit style training to explore capabilities before failure. Multi-disciplined training sessions to allow for multi system taxing.

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