The 3,500 Calorie Reality: Why Competitive Athletes Need Processed Foods
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We're sharing a conversation EC had recently on the Masters in Motion podcast. In it, they discuss the essential nutritional needs of competitive athletes and the role of processed foods in their diets.
You’ll gain insights into balancing whole foods with convenient options to meet your caloric and performance goals.
After you listen, you'll understand that nutrition can be simplified to a few key components, making it easier to fuel your body effectively. 🔗 Sign up for EC’s weekly bonus email
ABOUT THE SHOW The Consistency Project aims to simplify nutrition, health, and well-being by breaking down the concepts and actions we can all take to live fuller, more functional lives. ABOUT US
📍 EC Synkowski is a Certified Nutrition Specialist® (CNS), a Licensed-Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN), and Certified CrossFit Level 4 Coach (CF-L4). She's the founder of OptimizeMe Nutrition and the creator of the #800gChallenge®. Find her on social media.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, writer, and podcaster. Find him on social media. Full Disclaimer
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Every week here on the show, EC and I aim to simplify the science of nutrition, |
| 0:07.8 | health and fitness, cutting through the noise to focus on the principles and practices |
| 0:11.8 | that will help you perform better, feel better, and live better. |
| 0:15.7 | Thank you so very much for tuning into the show. |
| 0:18.3 | I am here with just a very quick introduction to the conversation because this time around |
| 0:23.9 | we're sharing a chat that EC had recently with Rick and Jason from the Masters in Motion podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | It's a show all about and for Masters competitors inside the sport of CrossFit. |
| 0:36.4 | The three of them cover EC's three pillars method of nutrition |
| 0:39.5 | focuses on quality, protein and calories designed to simplify complex nutrition concepts, |
| 0:44.3 | as EC is excellent at doing. They also talk about some surprising insights about performance |
| 0:49.4 | nutrition, including why high-level athletes need processed foods to meet there sometimes as high as |
| 0:54.9 | 3,500 calorie per day requirements and why frozen vegetables might be more nutritious than fresh. |
| 1:01.3 | And they also round things out with a practical discussion about making nutrition sustainable and |
| 1:05.1 | enjoyable, debunking common myths about clean eating and exploring how identity plays a crucial role in dietary success. Without |
| 1:13.9 | further ado, here's EC, Rick, and Jason, enjoy. If you could first tell us a little bit of your |
| 1:20.5 | story, your journey along the way. Yeah, I sometimes joke around that my background looks more |
| 1:25.2 | like a Jackson Pollock painting than any sort of obvious career path. It's sort of all over the place. But I think some of the unifying themes across it is I really enjoy making the complex simple. And so I think that's why nutrition has been a good fit for me. I think the topic could change. But I think that with nutrition and so much misinformation online, that I definitely |
| 1:45.2 | have my work kind of cut out for me with it. So that's really what I got started in. Actually, |
| 1:50.6 | I had to do some continuing education for CrossFit. That's why I started a master's in nutrition. |
| 1:54.2 | So that's ultimately why I started optimise me nutrition. And I just really love making it sustainable |
| 1:59.7 | and accessible for people. |
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