Are You Guilty of the Biggest Mistake Runners Make?- Nancy Clark
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.5 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
If you have some burning questions about your running diet, tune in now and listen to this interview with legendary nutritionist Nancy Clark.
She's a registered dietician with years of experience in the field of Sports Nutrition. She knows how important it is to develop a personalized nutrition plan based on your dietary needs and unique training plan, and we talk about how you can still treat yourself with dessert without blowing your calorie intake for the day.
The trick is knowing how many calories you burn per hour and what foods you like to eat that help [...]
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| 0:00.0 | Well, every time you train hard, you deplete your muscles. |
| 0:05.0 | And then the muscles respond to that stress by storing more glycogen. |
| 0:10.0 | So as a part of your training, you deplete your pasta or rice or noodles or sweet potatoes or |
| 0:18.2 | opial or whatever grain that you eat. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to the Runners Connect Run to the Top podcast, where it's all about learning |
| 0:28.5 | from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:32.3 | So together we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster |
| 0:36.4 | running community. Now here's your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello. Tina Muir. Hello, this is Tina Muir. |
| 0:46.0 | Thank you so much for joining me for the latest episode of the Runners Connect Run to the Top |
| 0:50.0 | Podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | So last week I had three guests on for the Unique Events Podcast and it was a lot of fun and I hope you were laughing along with us as all the guests made fun of one another and of me of course. you're looking for a new challenge you'll really love that one |
| 1:06.4 | so we all have different ability levels of what we're able to achieve as runners and sure |
| 1:15.5 | training makes a difference and ultimately allows us to achieve our potential, but at the end of the day our ceiling is kind of determined by our genetics. So we can't control what others do, |
| 1:22.3 | and it's one of the most difficult things for us to kind of get our head around, |
| 1:25.0 | especially when you see others around you taking it for granted while you absolutely work your butt off to try and get the best you can. |
| 1:32.0 | But one thing we can control that can give |
| 1:34.8 | us an edge and allow us to reach those goals. We've known this for a while now is our nutrition. |
| 1:41.1 | And although eating nutritious foods will give us the fuel to train and race well, there is actually such a thing as eating too well. |
| 1:48.0 | I'd always wondered about this. Does cutting sweets out completely help? And is there a best way to eat as a runner and |
| 1:55.8 | how do we know who to trust when it comes to nutritional advice? Well I thought I could |
| 2:00.6 | get one of the best nutritionists, sorry, registered dieticians, you will learn the difference in a minute, out there to help me and probably help you with those questions. |
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