[Read] More or Just Better?

Do you need to add more to your training and nutrition or do you just need better?

You are no stranger to the fact that more is not always better.

That applies to many things in life but it holds especially true with training and nutrition.

It’s easy to think that if you are not seeing the results you want that you should make run more, stay after and ride the bike/walk/run on the treadmill more.

Or in the sense of nutrition we can think doing more in the inverse: i should eat less to get where I want to be.

Here are a couple of ways you can get better from your training:

1. In the session, the 45/55 minutes you already have planned to train, give a better effort with the sprint work on the machines. Are you actually winded when you get done or where you able to chat during the entire conditioning piece?

2. In that same pre-meditated and scheduled time, did you stimulate the growth of lean tissue (that assist in the burning of fat) by using appropriate load and/or getting sufficient range of motion?

3. Did you stay to actually finish the session and go through the guided recovery work so that you could possibly move better after the session, potentially sleep better and even wake up with less aches?

Here are a couple of ways you can get better with nutrition:

1. Are you actually ordering a healthy option with that chicken salad loaded with so many things you don’t need or would you have been better off prioritizing protein and ordering that piece of chicken/beef/fish?

2. Don’t add another meal to your day, rather swap out some carbs for more protein in the same meal.

3. Don’t drink water (or much else) while you drink. Try to wait until you are finished. Liquids give you a feeling of being satiated making us think we are full. Protein does the same thing but providing actual nutrients in the process. If you drink too much while you eat, you won’t eat as much and that usually means not as much protein.

As you can see, you already had that 45/55 minutes planned to train, do better in that time vs adding time. You already had lunch plans at home or out, just do better within that meal vs adding more/removing too many things.

Hope this helps!