Some foods are holding your performance back right now…
Not eventually…
Right now…
Here are 12 foods fighters should cut out immediately:
1 – Energy drinks
Not a pre workout. Not a recovery drink. Sugar, caffeine and artificial ingredients that spike and crash your energy mid session.
2 – Alcohol before training.
One or two nights a week disrupts sleep, slows muscle repair and dehydrates you. There is no version of this that helps your training.
3 – Fizzy drinks
Carbonation causes bloating. Sugar spikes and crashes your energy. Diet versions wreck your gut. Cut them all.
4 – Deep fried food before training
Slow to digest. Sits heavy in your stomach. Kills your output before you even broken a sweat.
5 – Cheap processed protein bars
Full of sugar alcohols that cause serious gut issues mid training. If you can’t pronounce half the ingredients don’t eat it before a session.
6 – High sugar breakfast cereals
Starting your training day with a sugar spike that crashes before you even get to the gym is not a fuelling strategy.
7 – Heavily processed meats
Deli meat, cheap sausages, processed burgers. High sodium, low quality protein. Swap for real food.
8 – Flavoured yoghurts
As much sugar as a dessert in a lot of cases. Swap for plain Greek yoghurt. Add your own fruit, nuts and honey.
9 – Fast food more than once a week
Occasional is manageable. Regular fast food as a training diet is high sodium, high fat and low quality fuel.
10 – Low fat products
Almost always high sugar to compensate for the missing fat. Full fat versions of real food are better for trainers.
11 – Heavily salted snacks in fight week
Crisps, processed snacks, salted nuts. Sodium holds water. These have no place for trainers.
12 – Anything new on training day
Your gut doesn’t know it. Your body doesn’t trust it. Never eat something untested on training day.
Ever.
Cut these out now…
Not next week…
Your training, recovery and performance will all improve for it.
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