Nutrition Tips

Core Running nutrition tips provide you with the latest information in endurance nutrition to perform at your best.

Nutrition plays a vital role in optimal performance from providing your muscles with the energy they need to run fast to helping you repair the damage from training and racing.

What you eat and when you eat will determine how well you run to your genetic potential. Crappy food and bad timing will lead to crappy performance while good food and proper intake of nutrients at the right times will lead to superior performance.

More Than Just a Pasta Dinner

In the past runners assumed they could load up on a pasta dinner the night before a race and they'd run a good race. With my nutrition tips you'll learn that proper running nutrition involves more than what you eat the night before a race or training run.

How you've eaten throughout your entire training period is much more important than one meal. And once you learn about good nutrition you'll realize that a pasta dinner may not necessarily be the best thing the night before a race.

Nutrition and The Performance Pyramid

Recall the Performance Pyramid diagram I introduced elsewhere on this site. (In case you don't know what the Performance Pyramid is, read this page first).

Think of your nutrition as the bricks and material that make up the Performance Pyramid. If you use shoddy materials then you'll wind up with a weak pyramid that can crumble easily.

Use strong bricks and you'll build a strong pyramid capable of withstanding great stresses. And that's what training really is, a stress to the body forcing it to adapt.

Nutrition and Recovery

Your training breaks down your body and causes damage to the tissues. That's okay because our bodies are designed to recover from such damage if they are given the proper time and materials to recover.

Core Running nutrition tips will tell you what nutrients you need to eat and when you need to eat them to maximize your recovery. And the better and quicker you recover the better you'll be able to train and race.

Nutrition Tips Articles

Read through the various nutrition tips articles below for more information on different aspects of nutrition. Then apply the information to your own training and watch your performance soar!