This week we will be focusing on Nutrition

Welcome back. I hope everyone had a wonderful fourth of July week. For the next few weeks, I will be talking about the various modalities of training and how I believe they rank in order of importance. This week we will be focusing on Nutrition.

I believe that proper nutrition is most important and that it provides a strong base upon which everything else is added. As I stated in an earlier article, “you cannot out-perform bad nutrition.” You really are what you eat! If your diet is crap, then you are asking your body to do the impossible. You cannot build a strong, lean and viable machine out of garbage. It will NOT happen. The most difficult obstacle that I see having to overcome is the inaccurate belief that eating well is too time-consuming. That is false. How long does it take to slice up some chicken or steak, add a handful of spinach and possibly some garlic, onions and mushrooms? Now ask yourself how much time you waste surfing the internet to find out who’s sleeping with who in Hollywood? Or who won whatever game in whatever city?...because both of those activities contribute so much to your well-being!

As you all know, I am a strong advocate of eating a Paleo Diet. This consists of eating meat, fish, shellfish, vegetables (the greener, the better), some nuts, a little fruit, NO GRAINS and NO REFINED SUGAR!!! In no way does this mean that your diet will be boring or uneventful, to the contrary, it will be be better than ever! There are numerous books and resources available on-line to help one deal with eating properly while consuming very little of our precious family or personal-time. One book I recommend is “The Primal Blueprint Quick and Easy Meals”. It is available through Amazon and every recipe presented can be prepared in thirty minutes or less. When you eat the proper foods, you will tend to need less volume of food and you will feel full for a longer period of time.

A proper diet will also contribute to a favorable hormonal profile. Hormones, ladies and gentlemen, control the show. More on that in a separate article. As the effects of following a wholesome and nutritious diet start to ‘kick-in’, you will begin to feel significantly more energized each day, your performance in the gym will start skyrocketing, clothes will fit better and you will feel better about your appearance because you will be leaner, meaner, faster and stronger! Now go eat a big piece of meat with a big a$$ salad topped with olive oil and lemon juice or apple-cider vinegar!!!