Christmas is a great time for overindulging with food and drink, but at some stage (normally New Years Day) you’ll need to get back on the straight and narrow.
These Christmas gifts are ideal for beating the guilt and boosting your performance.
Nutritional Christmas Gift Ideas For Triathletes
1. Blender
Milk, yoghurt and fruit are all excellent recovery foods, and one of the nicest and most convenient ways of eating them is blended up as a smoothie. So why not ask Santa for one which will chop fruit easily, or if you’ve been especially good, one which will blend ice too. Get all the ingredients chopped and ready before you go training. Then, when you return you can pop them in your new toy and enjoy the perfect recovery snack.
2. Triathlon nutrition consultation
Consultation prices differ from practitioner to practitioner but having someone take a good look at your diet can really help your performance. Whether it is simply fuelling training, managing your body weight or helping you to maximise race-day performance a nutritionist or dietician will be able to help.
3. Cooking lesson
If your cooking skills are not quite up to scratch then learning to cook properly will really help. Look for cooking lessons which will provide you with basic skills. Don’t go for anything too fancy or difficult. It will increase your chances of having a balanced diet and will be able to cut out some of the rubbish which can creep into your diet when you eat instant foods.
4. A weekly planner
Planning your meals can be a really effective way of making sure you get the right foods at the right time. Sit down each weekend and look at your training program along with your work and general life schedule. Look at when you have more time and when you have less. On those nights where you have plenty of time to cook in bulk when time is tight look to have leftovers. You will see improvements in your training with this approach.
