Many dietary misconceptions are deeply ingrained in the minds of athletes. An important part of the job of a sports nutritionist is to recognize these misconceptions and persuade your clients to change them.
Common misunderstanding 1: If you engage in fitness exercises, it doesn’t matter what you eat.
At present, more people in China participate in fitness training than before. That's good news, but we also have to offset the positive effects of training on what high-fat, high-calorie foods we eat. Think about it again, why are more and more people training, but we still see a rapid increase in obese Chinese and Chinese people with poor body shape and health problems? The reason is simple, because we ignore the fact that often People who exercise require more nutrients than those who are sedentary; without the optimal nutrition your body needs, it is impossible to achieve the desired results.
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To give a simple example: If the body does not have the nutrients it needs to recover after intense training, let alone improve, it is like a lighter without butane - it may produce a spark, but it will not ignite. Both - fuel and spark must be present. There must be fuel to burn and a spark to ignite. Imagine you are holding a lighter without fuel, sitting there and firing, firing, and firing - nothing comes out. At this point you might throw it away. There are many people who have this attitude towards training. They start training without eating properly, and then give up halfway in disappointment. Therefore, from now on, you must accept the fact that optimal nutrition is as important as exercise, because it can effectively help bodybuilders recover from fatigue, burn fat, increase muscle, and improve health. In this way, you are on the road to achieving ideal fitness results. It's a step further.
Common Misunderstanding 2 If you can restrain yourself, the less you eat during the weight loss process, the better
Proper diet control is very helpful for losing weight, but dieting must be limited. It does not mean that the less you eat, the better. On the one hand, excessive dieting can easily cause gastrointestinal dysfunction and affect physical health.In severe cases, it can lead to anorexia nervosa; on the other hand, excessive dieting can cause a reduction in resting metabolic rate and reduce the body's energy consumption during resting, which is not conducive to weight loss.
Common misunderstanding 3: You can lose weight as long as you exercise more, no need to control your diet
The most basic principle of weight loss is a negative balance of energy, that is, more heat energy is consumed and less energy is taken in. After exercise, the weight does not decrease but increases. There are two situations: one is that the heat energy consumed during exercise is not enough; the other is that too much heat energy material is absorbed after exercise. Some people think that as long as they participate in exercise, no matter how much energy is consumed, they will eat and drink heavily after exercise. The added heat energy far exceeds the energy consumed. How can they not be fat? It can be seen that both insisting on physical exercise and appropriate Dieting is the right way to lose weight.
Common Misunderstanding 4: Muscle growth requires high protein, so eat more eggs
Muscle growth does require adequate caloric intake. During bodybuilding training, in order to meet the growth of muscles, the protein intake needs to reach 1.6-2 grams/kg of body weight/day. If such a large amount of protein is not properly selected, the subsequent "by-product" may be excess fat. intake (for example, some bodybuilders eat 10 eggs a day to supplement protein, supplementing 64 grams of protein, but they also consume 50 grams of fat and about 3000 mg of cholesterol). Therefore, to supplement adequate protein, you need to choose foods with low fat content. Protein foods such as skinless chicken, beef, fish, whey protein and other high-quality, low-fat protein sources.
In fact, there are still many misunderstandings among athletes about sports nutrition. I will analyze them with you in the future, so that friends who are interested in sports nutritionists can clearly identify these misunderstandings and translate them into their own language. Listen to others, help them change their wrong eating behaviors, and accept healthy eating concepts and methods.
Sports nutritionists are disseminators of healthy eating concepts, but currently there are very few sports nutritionists in China. Many sports nutritionists also hold other jobs, such as personal trainers at health clubs, sports team doctors and researchers, and school physical education teachers. What is gratifying for all of us is that more and more people are now paying attention to this profession and actively learning about sports nutrition. I believe that in the near future, more people can join the team of sports nutritionists, and through their words and deeds, they can help more people learn to take care of their bodies, choose appropriate exercise methods and foods, and maintain good health and fitness. By implementing the wrong dietary concepts and nutritional issues pointed out by them, and implementing the sports nutrition plan prescribed by nutritionists, their service providers maintain a natural and healthy weight, recover faster from fatigue after exercise, have more energy at work, and become smarter. Flexible and, in general, life easier and fasterhappy.
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