Nutrition

Nutrition is the third leg of the Turbulence Training Workout system. Consider the entire apparatus to be like a tripod with Workouts, Motivation, and Nutrition each being one leg. No matter how strong, sturdy and balanced any two of them are, if the third isn’t up to the mark, the tripod is unbalanced. That’s how important nutrition is.

Craig Balantyne ensures that you get a full understanding of how nutrition affects your training and gives you clear and precise guidelines on how to eat. As with workouts, he goes out of his way to bust many myths about eating – myths that have been circulating freely for some time now. Such as skipping breakfast, and “compensating” for overeating.

25 Nutrition Tips

Many people find it easier to digest point by point instructions, and Craig helps the reader along by including 25 concise tips for proper nutrition. He introduces concepts such as the “nutrient-to-calorie ratio” and explains how practices such as eating a few moderate meals and some snacks in between might be better than eating just two or three big meals a day.

Supplement Advice

Sometimes supplements are useful – but only sometimes. Craig explains the situations when supplements might help your Turbulence Training workouts and gives you examples of each.

He again clarifies several misconceptions that surround supplements and illustrates how they can occasionally help to serve as “meal replacements” – especially when you’re traveling.

Staying on Track and Tying into Motivation

It’s important to maintain a regular schedule of nutrition. Unlike the Turbulence Training workouts which emphasize a constant change of direction, Craig instructs us on the importance of maintaining a regular diet.

This leans heavily on the lessons we learned on motivation [Link to motivation article here] and staying the course. Indeed, the temptation to stray is powerful, and only with clear objective goals and a single minded focus can one hope to stay on track.

For those who wish to explore further, Craig points out two further resources: http://www.eatstopeat.com/ and http://www.provenfatlossdiet.com/ where the fundamentals of eating right are explained and new paradigms introduced.

And finally, several commonly asked questions on nutrition are answered. They range from what to do when you go to a party, to what should be eaten before and after a workout.

All in all, the reader is left with a complete understanding of how nutrition can make or break a Turbulence Training workout schedule. It’s an important section of the book, and one that is easy to read and comprehend.

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