Ep.29 / How to Fuel for Athletic Performance
WITH Jackson long
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Attention athletes (especially plant-based women athletes): this one’s for you!!
Jackson holds a bachelor’s degree in Integrative Physiology from the University of Colorado, a master’s degree in Applied Nutrition, with a post-graduate diploma in Applied Sport and Exercise Nutrition, and is a trained and accredited sports nutritionist through the Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register (SENr) of the British Dietetic Association. He has over 13 years of training and racing experience in cycling, skiing, and trail running, and followed a plant-based diet for 9 of those years.
In this episode, we cover both Jackson’s big picture perspectives on fueling for movement in general (which I love and concur with entirely!), as well as some of the nitty gritty nutrition questions that came in for this interview. Part of what I appreciate about Jackson’s approach to nutrition is his ability to balance these zoomed out and zoomed in views! Some of the conversation topics include the issue of underfueling (which is the most common nutritional issue he sees in both his sports coaching & private nutrition practice), relative energy deficiency in sport (REDS), yay or nay on fasted workouts, iron & ferritin concerns for plant-based athletes, and how your menstrual cycle might influence your training and fueling.
It’s a conversation that I feel does a great job of always coming back to the foundations that help you keep things in perspective and see the issues in the context of your whole self. Enjoy!!!
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