Professional triathlete and nutritionist Pip Taylor gives a list of foods to keep in your kitchen at all times to ensure that you are always ready to create a quick and healthy meal.
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Competitor.com’s Matt Fitzgerald sat down for an hour with LetsRun.com to answer questions and discuss his new book Racing Weight. Matt hits on the major points of his new book and answers some controversial questions sent in by runners.
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Competitor.com contributor Dave Trendler interviewed author Matt Fitzgerald about his new book Racing Weight. Fitzgerald’s new book offers sound advice for endurance athletes on how to control your weight for optimal performance.
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Dr. John Berardi helps set out a simple plan as to when and how often you should eat every day. Planning eating frequency will keep you energized and ready to tackle your next workout.
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Dr. John Berardi takes us through the pros and cons of eating meat. Eating the proper types of meat is not only healthy but can become a very important part of any athlete’s diet.
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Dr. John Berardi describes a very important part your daily nutrition plan: the balance acids and bases. No need to pull out the old high school chemistry book, John breaks down an easy way to use different food types to keep you balanced and get your diet on track.
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Written by: Dawn Jackson Blatner
Vegetarianism is not just for vegetarians anymore. These days the growing health movement called flexitarianism is taking root and converting carnivores into veggie-loving folks.
A flexitarian is someone who eats vegetarian food without quitting meat cold turkey. This plant-based eating style is rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, beans and nuts that [...]
Written by: Matt Fitzgerald
Triathlete Magazine Senior Editor Matt Fitzgerald provides advice on the amount of food to intake while attempting to lose weight during training.
Should You Try to Eat Less?
It seems commonsensical to many people that if you want to lose weight, you need to make a conscious effort to eat less. However, many nutrition [...]
Written by: Matt Fitzgerald
Matt Fitzgerald discusses the correct balance of dietary variety in a triathlete’s nutrition plan.
Dietary variety is one of the core principles of nutrition. Most nutrition experts would agree that diversity is among the two or three most important qualities a diet can have. You’d be hard pressed to find a nutrition [...]
Written by: Matt Fitzgerald
Overweight is often attributed to a lack of willpower. And new research on the role of the brain in relation to body weight suggests that this may indeed be the case, at least to some extent. But the same research is also complicating the notion of willpower. It is generally assumed that [...]
Written by: Matt Fitzgerald
I’m sure you’ve heard the expression, “A calorie is a calorie.” It means that carbohydrate, fat and protein calories are equal in terms of their effect on body weight. This point is most often made in the context of debates between low-carb and low-fat diet advocates.
Those who say “A calorie is a [...]
Written by Tim Mickleborough
What’s the deal with caffeine? Does it truly improve race times and help with training? If it does improve performance can we dose up on caffeine and not have any worries about getting caught? Is it a banned substance? Are there any major side effects with taking large amounts of caffeine?
Caffeine has [...]
