Eating Lean Can Lead To An Increase in Speed

As a general rule one way to run faster is to get lighter. Usually runners don't have to try this very hard, it just happens. Concurrently, that's one thing great about running; your body will seek its best weight for your height and build.

Increasing distance will get you lighter anyway. As far as food intake goes if you'll learn to substitute foods that are fatty with something more nourishing, weight-loss will come about. It just stands to reason, in a race if you're not carrying an extra five or eight pounds with you over the course of a 5k, that may knock off ten or fifteen seconds off your finishing time!

I do warn at first you'll say no way can I substitute the following foods with the more nourishing ones. However, in a couple of weeks you'll be a pro and won't think anything of it. Switch red meats with fish or bird. Change out whole milk with slim milk.

More of the same interchange salad dressing with olive oil. Switch up fried foods with boiled. You can eat peanut butter on crackers but just a dab for flavor. Fast change cheese with low-fat cottage cheese. You may really like this one, interchange potato chips for fresh cut vegetables or fruit. As a snack in-between meals if you need to tie yourself over, carry a bag of apricots or any other fruits or vegetables.

You need enough carbohydrates to break down fatty acids into energy. Complex carbohydrates as vegetables and whole grains should satisfy your hunger. As a matter of fact "physiologists say fats burn in a carbohydrate flame." Remind yourself that eating lean can lead to an increase in speed.

A trick of the (running) trade is to eat little snacks throughout the day as you get hungry. I always had a bag of apricots close by to just grab a few. That would tie be over until meal time. In which the meal would be small because I would not be dieing of starvation! Due to always having my bag of tricks close by. Once again it could be trail mix or cut vegetables or fruit or half of a granola bar.

More tricks, don't eat any meals after six in the evening and no fluids after nine at night unless it's just water. I know if you've read this article this far, you may be thinking this is a bunch of bull! These patterns of eating were not thought of at a moments notice, but over many years of what works and what doesn't. Your body fat should get down to about ten percent for male and fifteen for female. This is only a rule of thumb.

Over time they'll just blend into you subconscious without even thinking about them. Rather, they're just a part of living, like putting on your shoes or brushing your teeth. You just think, "this is my diet I'm a runner." At the end of the day remind you, "this is the purpose of this diet -- eating lean will lead to an increase in speed."

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