Do you have CARB-O-PHOBIA? (3 min read)

Do you ever feel guilty for eating carbs?

Ever feared eating them in front of trainers, friends or family? Found a need to cut them out of your diet?

(It’s pretty tough!!)

 

Don’t worry, we’ve all been there before.

Everything and everyone is always shouting out how ‘bad’ sugar is or questions you, “should you really be eating that?”. My favourite is,

“You are what you eat”

(Oh, you mean sweet and essential for life itself? Thanks! 😀 )

Let’s be real, we need carbs. So let’s talk about why?!

 

1. The body’s most efficient energy source

Did you know? 

The human brain uses approximately 20% of your body’s energy. Guess what? It love love loves glucose (a.k.a sugar, a form of carbohydrate). Keeping your brain well nourished will help you to stay focused during exercise and daily life.

 

Have you ever found yourself feeling more fatigued and grumpy after cutting carbs?

Our entire body is made up of cells, that highly depend on sugar to function. These are the building blocks of our existence!

 

Carbohydrates are the most easily digested, absorbed and used energy source (compared to fats and protein) in the body. They are the fastest acting food fuel for your body, particularly great for your muscles during explosive and endurance exercise.

2. Over my bread body!

Carbohydrate dense foods provide you with other fantastic nutrients! Bread, pasta, cereals, oats, quinoa and rice are just a few legendary grains, that are rich in;

  • Iron, Zinc, Folate, Magnesium
  • Protein, Fibre, Vitamin E
**This food group provides us with a huge chunk of our overall energy needs, even just to get through your regular day. Cutting grains out of your diet means you are missing out on a bunch of awesome vitamins and minerals.

3. Increased immunity

Completing exercise with low levels of carbohydrate can increase the level of stress hormones in your body. It is suggested that eating carbohydrates closely after training may reduce a rise in stress hormones and prevent decreased immunity that is linked to exercise. Surprising, huh?

4. Refuelling for recovery

I am an endless pit when it comes to post-exercise snacks. Not everyone feels the need to eat after training. However, there are some awesome benefits!

Our bodies can best repair and promote muscle growth when we have a carbohydrate and protein snack with in 60-90 minutes after exercise. This will help to reduce muscle pain and recovery time, ready for your next training session. It’s a good idea to have a smaller snack on hand for after exercise and then top up again during your next meal.

 

Remember, great recovery means even greater performance.

                                 

Emily

Dietitian/Nutritionist

Fresh Start For Life

2018-07-10T01:38:11+10:00

About the Author:

Denee Lalouette
A UFT PLAYground is a place that people of all shapes, sizes and ages learn to develop their movement abilities through an infinite learning and development program. UFT PLAYgrounds have been created to re-inspire our natural ability to move, create, adapt, re-act, connect, have fun and of course PLAY. PLAYgrounds have been developed to allow people to feel and explore their own abilities by utilising a multidimensional, infinite, creative and PLAYful approach to training. We live in a world full of specialists and obsessions. At an ever increasing rate, people are specialising more and more, in their jobs, in their businesses, in their sport and in their training. The result, is a backward step in human evolution. By specialising, we limit ourselves to thinking that 1 particular way of doing things is the right way, or the only way. We promote creativity, not only in movement and training methodologies but in thinking in general. A UFT PLAYground is created to provide the general public with an opportunity to PLAY across multiple styles of training and moving, to be able to progress in the training methods that they become passionate about or that excites them and to be a part of a community that promotes more than just fitness. The “fitness” industry above all others has brought about a need to specialise in order to achieve anything, and majority of what we do for “fitness” is for an aesthetically pleasing reason. We understand that aesthetics are nice and we too love to look and feel good. However a UFT PLAYground is developed to allow people to move better than ever before across a broad range of training methodologies and ideas. Aesthetics, therefore are a result not a goal of that system. We know that “If you train to look good, you will not always enjoy what you do, but if you PLAY a lot, and do the things that you love, you will ending up looking good”. Aesthetics should be a result not a goal. For years now, we have recognised that the best movers on the planet are children. They are flexible, mobile & fit, they have better relative strength than a typical adult (and even most adolescents), they are the best creators and innovators, they learn faster, the adapt better, they interact better with other people, they are more connected to nature and most importantly, they PLAY more than anyone else. As adults, we tend to believe that because we are taller and more experienced in “life”, we are better, and then we get to an age that says we are “too old to PLAY”. As we grow taller (and in a lot of cases rounder), we experience things that inhibit our ability to move, think and not think. We allow our experiences to limit our abilities as humans, whether it be a physical injury, a story that we heard or a youtube video that we watched. We also allow our emotions to control our behaviour because of our past experiences. Maybe it was the feeling of humiliation when we tried something new, regret when we failed or heart break when it was taken away from us. Because of this, we allow our experiences to control our future instead of learning from them and creating our own . This is what UFT PLAYground’s are built on. The understanding that we as humans need to go back to the way things were before our negative experiences took over our subconscious mind and body. A UFT PLAYground gives people the ability to re-learn what they have lost, as well as develop new sets of skills that will allow them to follow any particular passion that they uncover in PLAYtime. When we PLAY, we are simply, exploring. Through exploring we become curious and through curiosity we become obsessed or passionate about a particular thing. This is why in a PLAYground we allow people to PLAY across a broad range of training systems (minimum of 3), Through this system they are able to identify 1, their current limitations and be educated on how to overcome them, and 2, identify their passions and learn to develop, grow and excel in them. UFT PLAYgrounds are also a development centre for up and coming entrepreneurs in the fitness industry. Each PLAYground founder will have been trained and will be continuously trained in UFT’s Trainer Success System. This system allows personal trainers, coaches, teachers, instructors, etc. to continue to develop in their fields of specialty (as they play they will find it) and in the philosophy of PLAYtime. They will also be trained in the business systems of UFT in order to have their own successful and profitable business. See UFT Trainer Success System for more details.

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