s3/e07 Nutrition for Injury Prevention & Injury Recovery with Steph Hnatiuk, RD (@steph.the.runners.dietitian)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
What role does nutrition play in injury prevention & injury recovery? What can you do to reduce your injury risk, and how can you support your injury recovery with nutrition? Registered Dietitian Steph Hnatiuk (@steph.the.runners.dietitian) joins the show to help us understand the relationship between injury and nutrition!
- The role underfueling plays in increasing injury risk
- Carb restriction & Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S)
- What your body needs when it's injured (hint: it's not restriction!)
- Fear of weight gain when injured
- Ways we can use nutrition to support the recovery process
- Fasted training/"earning" your food
- Obsession over "burning calories" when injured
- Bone health & nutrition
- Key nutrients to support injury recovery
Steph Hnatiuk has been a Registered Dietitian and Fitness Coach for over 10 years and has helped thousands of people improve their eating habits, get big results, and develop a better relationship with food. She helps runners of all levels achieve their personal best performance using her 3-step strategy: the Fuel Train Recover method. You can find her on Instagram @steph.the.runners.dietitian, or at www.stephaniehnatiuk.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.2 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.6 | If you're a new runner or you or even doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.1 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. Hey guys, welcome to the show. |
| 0:27.5 | Excite to have you here. Can't believe it's almost already the end of February, but time really is |
| 0:31.9 | flying this year. So if you are currently starting in the middle or ending a training cycle for a race, |
| 0:37.1 | I hope that it's going |
| 0:37.9 | extremely well. I just wanted to update you on some of the things that are happening around the |
| 0:42.8 | running explained world. Most notably, the release of the Training Plus programs. Training Plus is |
| 0:49.2 | another option. I am really excited to offer two runners now who are super interested in learning |
| 0:53.6 | more about race-specific training for their training cycle runners now who are super interested in learning more about |
| 0:54.5 | race-specific training for their training cycle, but aren't really interested in the commitment |
| 0:58.8 | of one-on-one coaching and maybe not even the bi-weekly calls of group coaching. |
| 1:03.0 | So training plus is five and a half hours of educational modules with downloads and slides |
| 1:08.8 | and worksheets and calculators. |
| 1:11.2 | It is 13 different topics you're going to learn about in training for your race, |
| 1:14.9 | either the marathon or the half marathon, two different options available. |
| 1:18.4 | Training Plus is available for both. |
| 1:20.3 | You get a training plan, you get the Heart Rate Zones Masterclass, |
| 1:23.1 | and you also get a 30-minute coaching consult with me to touch base |
| 1:27.3 | and have any of your |
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