Food Planning Tips for Busy Runners We are going to give you a snap-shot of Food Planning Tips for Busy Runners which we look at in the Eat For Running Results part of the Healthy Woman Healthy Runner Method. We will be talking about: 1. What do you need to think about when creating your runners food plan? 2. Planning your Food Plate to meet your energy requirements. 3. Practicalities of putting your food plan into action 4. Having some fall-back food plans …. In case food plan A doesn’t work out! https://sunny-trailblazer-4067.ck.page/9b73b64095 (BOOK YOUR PLACE )on our next FREE TRAINING: Learn all about our Healthy Woman Healthy Runner Method. We love podcasting but we love being with you LIVE even more so we can’t wait to meet you in our ZOOM ROOM! https://my.captivate.fm/dashboard/podcast/5d3689da-b02f-40a6-b670-c08d465f2c71/BOOK%20HEREhttps://sunny-trailblazer-4067.ck.page/9b73b64095 (BOOK HERE!) Show Notes (01:49) What should we consider when creating our “runners food plan” and what questions do many runners have? In our experience, many runners, feel a bit confused about how to adapt their everyday food plan to meet their training requirements and also to help them enjoy their running, get good results and recovery as well as prevent injury and maybe even support their life phase or an underlying health condition. They are often not sure where to start and what foods and how much food to eat and when to eat those foods! (03:44) If you are new to planning food for your running, we suggest planning and scheduling your run training in your diary as a starting point ideally for a week ahead. This information is going to inform you of what your food and fuelling requirements are for your training and then you can consider the practicalities around what you are able to prepare and eat within the best time frames. (07:15) Understanding about why the time of day will influence what you choose to eat in relation to your run training plans. For example, choosing to run in a fasted state is best when it’s an early morning easy paced run under 90 minutes or planning meals giving enough time to digest food before a run. (07:54) Choosing what to eat to support different types of run training. For runs under 90 minutes or in the 10k – it’s likely that everyday foundational nutrition will be adequate for your requirements. For speed/technical running, you may require a snack BEFORE training even if training is short and early morning as you will be burning more CHO than fat and glycogen stores are reduced in the morning following an overnight fast. When you’re running for longer distances for a longer duration of time you’ll need to start adapting your energy intake across your day and consider your requirements for fuelling during your runs and for post run recovery It’s likely that you’ll require more energy from carbohydrate at your meal-times and also have requirements for taking on board carbohydrate during your training runs as well as having a post run snack Your total Energy Requirements are personalised to your body composition as well as your training requirements – which is something we help you with in the HWHR method
(11:52) Get access to our https://sunny-trailblazer-4067.ck.page/f56fbf2e17 (Free Nutrition Guide) to help you make pre, during and post food choices (13:12) How do you know how much to eat i.e. energy in vs energy out? We suggest calculating your energy requirements based on BMR plus activity factors and personalising your food requirements accordingly to your run training plan. (17:57) Some insights into using different athlete food plates for different levels of training as an alternative to complex measurements of macros and calories. (22:55) We consider the practicalities of putting your food plan into action from time saving ideas to making conscious decisions. We