Food as Fuel
Let food be your fuel while you focus on preparing and recovering from exercise
Tips to help you decide what to eat and what not while you exercise
Ihave always pushed my body with my workouts. In a regular week, I shift between functional training, swimming, skipping, and yogalates. Basically involving strength and conditioning with some cardio. What sends me into a surprise almost every day is the fact that I recover faster with the dietary regimen I follow, and can power through my workouts with ease. I am letting you in on my secrets—high performance, high recovery diet to maximise what you get out of your workouts.
Eat alkaline
Make your diet more alkaline and the bulk of it should focus on wholegrain, vegetables, quinoa, amaranth, sprouted seeds, fruits, beans, nuts, some sea weeds and spirulina. Get your fats from avocado, nuts, coconut and sesame oil (cold pressed), coconut meat and natural food sources. You can try doing what I have done in last seven months. Increase the intake of vegetables to almost 40 per cent of your daily volume consumption and decrease wholegrain to 20 per cent, keep beans/legumes, quinoa and amaranth to 25 per cent, and fruit to 10 per cent. These help the blood condition to stay more alkaline, and also help in 100 per cent assimilation of nutrients, contributing to high performance levels during exercise routines.
Eat enzymes
Keep the enzymes active in all foods; focus on lighter cooking styles. Get abundant amount of enzymes by way of good quality fermentation (in the form of quick pressed salads, pickles made in brine), and miso paste, as without these enzymes foods can’t be used by the body efficiently.
Eat chlorophyll-rich foods
Ensure to have some form of greens in your daily diet along with cereal grasses such as wheatgrass. Both are rich in chlorophyll and support energy levels and provide the body with extra ability to help oxygenation. This helps in performing well during exercise routines and also increases pH levels.
Eat assimilated protein
Stick to natural plant sources of protein with a high pH in the form of sprouts, nuts, seeds and legumes—not overcooked as this makes it acid forming—spirulina, wheatgrass and leafy greens. Feel free to include fish, chicken and eggs.