Weekend Warriors
Tips & Strategies to boost performance
Fuel up
Chocolate milk is the best sports drink on the market
Most sports nuts would probably opt to swig down the specially formulate sports drink, but mother nature’s formulation would be a better option, both for your muscles and for your wallet.
A banana will slip you across the finish line stocked
Bananas allow you to slip across the finish line, as well as a proprietary brand energy drink, while being ahead in terms of out of pocket expenses
Use peanuts to power gold medal sports performances
It almost sounds like heresy but athletes need extra calories to super charge your performance and the best source of those extra calories is fat not carbs.
Keep Cool
Cool hands lead to hotter workouts and better health
Exercising makes you feel hot and bothered, if you’ve got extra padding, exercise is even hotter work. Cooling down your hands can help stop you overheating.
Calm
What you think you see is what you get
Sinking a putt is easier if you imagine the hole to be a little bigger than it is. Reality is relative so, what you think you see, can become your reality
& Collected
Wave a red flag at your muscles so they see red
When mother nature has something DANGEROUS to say, she uses red. Seeing red supercharges your muscles, but it can mess with your head so mind your reds
Get a little stimulation
Caffeine can wake up your muscles to make you go-go
Muscles can run on low octane or high octane fuel. To use the high octane stuff, it must be transported in – caffeine wheels it in, helping you go-go.
Caffeine the recipe for muscle “achievement” ?
Adding a mega dose of caffeine to your post workout ritual, will speed up the glycogen reload of your muscles significantly.
Want a better time? Better add a little betaine to the water
Create a little winning body chemistry by supplementing with betaine the week before your BIG COMPETITION, a 2.5 g/day dose will boost your performance legally
Take care of your muscles
Get your vitamin D levels up for a sporting chance
Football players who end up benched due to injury consistenly have low vitamin D levels. Is vitamin D the key to avoiding costly muscle injuries ?
A muscle massage is more than an aphrodisiac
A muscle rub down does more than just foster a good mood, at the cellular level, a muscle massage is able to fight inflammation and invigorate muscle fibres
Beefing Up those muscles requires eating more beef
Being able to age gracefully is a motivator to “live healthy” now. So what does it take to “age” gracefully. In a word…… MUSCLE.
Supplement Wisely
Combining an antioxidant with exercise is NOT a health move
Exercise improves insulin sensitivity, but the benefit requires a little oxidative stress. So if you combine an antioxidant with exercise, you lose the benefit
Popeye turns to beetroot for his muscle fix
Downing a glass of nitrate laden beetroot juice is a great tasting way to naturally decrease blood pressure and boost oxygen supplies.
Toughen up your tendons and ligaments so you avoid injuries
We worry about bone health, but a bone break is a rarity, a tear in a tendons or ligament if far more likely. So what can you do to avoid these ?
Don’t be blindsided
When statins attack muscles the effect is deep seated
Statins are prescribed to protect people from heart attacks. But, statins can go on the offensive and attack skeletal muscles by ripping them open
Make new friends
Playing dirty on the sports field encourages the coming of germs
Stop panicking – the COMING is a good thing. When it comes to your personal collection of “bugs” on your skin, the more the merrier.
Don’t overhydrate
Caution – too little salt is a killer
After vigorous exercise rehydrating is important but beware drinking water is replacing the water not the sodium. Too little sodium can also kill.
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