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Nutrition is the key to unlocking results.
Following a nutrition plan that's right for you coupled with the workouts that we do is the recipe for success.
We've gone through nutrition certifications and courses, worked with lots of people and have had our own personal experiences as teachers.
These blog posts are full of our tips and tricks to success.
We hope you'll use them to assist in your journey!
Expectations
It would be wise for us to talk about expectations before starting The Athlete's System to set expectations.
By the end of the 3 months, we all expect to see a positive result.
We are logical people and know that our expectations will only be met if we 1) follow the program (compliance) and 2) give it time. But we’ve witnessed once logical people start acting illogically. This is what you should know about results from this program.
Macro Food List
What’s a carb? How about beans? What they are carbs?! A big part of this program is learning what’s what. Make that process easier. Read the list here to find out common food categories.
Use this list as a shopping guide and as an informational tool to know what foods fall into what category.
Emergency Macros
When it’s the end of the day and you realize that you’ve eaten your daily macro needs for fat (or any one of the macros) and still need to have dinner…we want you to eat! But if you already reached the daily intake for one number, what do you eat?
When you need to eat more of one (or two) specific macros, use this list to help you figure out what foods have what macros.
Macros and Traveling
At first traveling and counting macros can seem impossible. "How am I going to do this without a scale, the comfort of my own kitchen, my measuring cups, tablespoons, tupperware containers and prepping?!?!"....shh...take a deep breath. Follow our 4 easy steps you can do to maintain your macros while traveling.
The Art of Estimating
Estimating how much food you eating to stick to your plan is a skill. It’s not a hard skill to learn, but you have to learn it. It’s all to easy to say “I guess that was 4 oz of meat” but it’s actually 6 or 8 and before you know it, you’ve doubled the amount of food you actually should have had. Here’s our guide.
Supplements
Should to take protein? What about a multi vitamin? There are some vitamins, minerals and nutrients that are very hard, or even impossible, to get from eating food. Taking a nutritional supplement(s) helps to fill those voids. Supplements can also help you hit numbers.
Here's the list of what we recommend as worth while supplements to take.
Carbohydrates
When you’re in need of filling some space up (volume) and don’t have a lot of grams of carbs to do it, what should you eat? What about if you have a lot more grams of carbs that you need to eat, but don’t like eating a lot of food but need to get the grams up for the day, what should you have? Read more about high and low density carbs.
Coaches Grocery Lists
See what the coaches have on their weekly grocery lists with the brand names of foods we buy, split up into different categories (proteins, carbs and fat) so you can learn how we think about our shopping. Copy parts of the list or the whole thing!