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Today I’m going to talk to you about some of the pitfalls of training, especially endurance cardio training.
Number one, not eating enough food. On one particular occasion, I was completely demotivated and I was missing a couple of morning workouts and my coach said to me, “I want you to keep a food log for me for a couple of days,” and I thought, “Me? Don’t you remember what I do? Me? You want me to keep a food log? OK, fine, coach. I will keep a food log for you.”
Yeah. I was down by like a thousand calories. I wasn’t demotivated. I was hungry but my body was doing so much work that I wasn’t feeling hungry in my belly. I simply didn’t have enough calories. So number one was not eating enough food.
So number one was not eating enough food. Other pitfalls that I hear from triathletes are things like eating too much of the wrong kind of food.
There’s the mentality – I had a very good friend who was doing triathlons and he had this mentality of, “Oh, I’m exercising a lot. I can eat whatever I want,” and at the end of that, he gave himself diabetes.
Fortunately, he also learned how to reverse it and so he learned that it wasn’t just, “As much as I exercise, I can eat whatever I want.” It was also, “As much as I exercise, I have this super power because I invest so much in my health. If I simply change my diet, then I can also reverse my diabetes,” and he did and I’m really proud of him for that.
The next part is so too much junk food or simply poor quality food in general. If there’s food that you eat and you feel tired afterwards, that’s probably not the right food for you. If there’s food that you eat and you feel brain fog afterwards, that’s probably not the right food for you.
So for some people for example, that might be wheat. That it’s just not the right type of food for them or there can also be a problem of just buying really low quality. You need to be buying organic or hormone-free and you’re not and then you don’t feel well after you eat that food. It’s not necessarily that the chicken or beef that you ate was bad for you. It’s the hormones and pesticides that you ate were bad for you.
Another thing that snuck up on me was I did not realize that I would need more sleep as my training increased.
So budgeting time got really tricky because my workouts increased and so that took time. I needed to eat more food which meant I needed to cook more food and prep more food and that took time and also I needed more sleep on top of it all.
So I really became quite a wizard at time management in that process and the cool thing was that what I learned about time management through my training translated to all the other areas of my life.
So I became super-efficient just because I was training for this race. I kind of got more time. I got more hours in the day and of course during the hours that I was awake, I was smarter and I was more focused because I was exercising so much. So getting enough sleep is very, very, very important.
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