Nutrition Tips to hit your fitness goals in 2025
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The New Year is the perfect time to set nutrition goals. Eating well will give you more energy for workouts and help with recovery.
The nutrition team at Metpro is once again joining Run to the Top with topics like:
- Why nutrition goal-setting is important for athletes
- How to set an effective New Year’s goal or resolution
- Why you might actually need to eat more if you have a goal to lose weight
- Why snacking is such a powerful tool for runners
- How to tailor your nutrition to your personal metabolism and goals
Healthy eating is super individualistic and will vary by person. That’s why it’s important to set goals that are specific and relevant to your lifestyle.
So if you want to run your best in 2025, it all starts with setting the right goals to fuel the hard workouts that get you there.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Statistically, those who do some level, doesn't have to be extensive, but some level of advanced |
| 0:09.0 | preparation for their food, get radically better results. |
| 0:14.0 | And what's interesting is we find that to be the case regardless of where someone's metabolic rate is or what somebody's |
| 0:21.9 | physical abilities are. It's just across the board. The holidays can be a ton of fun, but if |
| 0:29.3 | you've been eating a little less healthy than usual, you're not alone. It's pretty easy to |
| 0:33.9 | overdo the sweets and heavy meals at holiday events, which is why eating better |
| 0:37.7 | is such a common New Year's goal. That's a lot easier said than done, though, and there's a lot |
| 0:42.8 | of bad information out there. That's why I brought on Angelo Polly from MetPro to talk about |
| 0:48.3 | creating a nutrition plan tailored to your needs. Angelo was an internationally recognized |
| 0:53.1 | expert in fitness and nutrition. |
| 0:55.2 | He's been featured in major media outlets such as men's health, Sports Illustrated, |
| 1:00.0 | and the Wall Street Journal for his special team coaching athletes and weight loss sciences. |
| 1:04.6 | We'll get into how to set nutrition goals for the new year, including how to define your |
| 1:08.6 | nutrition goals, what people often get wrong when it |
| 1:11.3 | comes to nutrition, why snacking is such a powerful tool for runners, and why if you have a goal |
| 1:16.8 | to lose weight, you might actually need to start eating more. Whether you want to get a little |
| 1:21.0 | leaner in the new year, or fuel your heavy mileage to run a personal best in 2025, |
| 1:26.0 | proper nutrition is one of the best ways to help hit those goals. |
| 1:29.7 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:40.2 | Hello, runners, and welcome to the Run to the Top podcast, where our goal is making you a better runner with each and every episode. |
| 1:47.4 | I'm your showrunner, Corey Nagler, and I'm not an elite runner, but together we'll explore new strategies and topics to take your running to the next level. |
| 1:55.4 | This podcast is created and produced by the expert team of coaches at runners connect.net, where you can find the best |
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