Eat to Exercise

Diets and nutrition should align with your lifestyle. If you are an athlete, you need to eat in a certain way to achieve the best results and keep your body healthy despite the effort. Last week we talked about nutrition for high-impact sports, but these are not the only physical activities that benefit from eating well. In fact, your energy and the results obtained after each exercise are proportional to the nutrients in your body. Activities such as yoga, pilates, aerobics, spinning, and many others that are trendy are experienced better by knowing how to eat well. For elastic and endurance movements like yoga, it's best to start with foods rich in vitamins like fruits and vegetables. On the other hand, silicon is also needed, a mineral found in barley, pine oil, and palm hearts. Specifically, vitamin A provides resistance and elasticity to the muscles, so if you are a yogi, make sure to eat carrots, parsley, spinach, and cod.   Recipe for Barley Soup with Beef Meatballs Ingredients: - 1/4 cup of barley - 2 liters of chicken broth - 1 cup of chopped onion - 1 cup of peeled and chopped carrots - 1/2 cup of celery - 2 cups of sliced mushrooms - 1 potato, peeled and diced - 1/2 cup of parsley - Worcestershire sauce - 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese - 30 grams of ground beef - 1 egg - pepper Click here to see how to prepare this recipe.   Now, if your favorite exercise is spinning, there is also a specific recipe book to improve your performance. First of all, hydration is the most important; sweating in this activity is so much that you should aim to drink at least half a liter of water before, during, and after exercise. Besides this, you can help yourself with simple carbohydrates like cereals or fats like a little chocolate before getting on the bike to have energy and explosiveness. Recipe for Cereal with Yogurt and Chocolate Chips Ingredients: - 1 cup of whole grain cereal flakes - 1 teaspoon of dried blueberries - 1 teaspoon of dried raisins - 1 teaspoon of chocolate chips - 5 tablespoons of natural yogurt To see how to prepare this recipe click here.   Aerobics, along with dance classes, are two exercises that require good lung capacity and excellent physical condition. For this type of training, it's best to eat fish, oranges, dairy products, and even a little wine with meals. Each of these foods benefits lung tissue, making it easier to do cardiovascular exercises that require the respiratory system to work twice as hard. Recipe for Fish Fillet with Citrus Ginger Sauce Ingredients: - 1/2 cup of fresh orange juice - 2 tablespoons of lime juice - 2 tablespoons of lemon juice - 1 tablespoon of olive oil - 1 orange zest - 1 lemon zest - 1/2 teaspoon of grated ginger - 1 pinch of cayenne pepper - 4 thick white fish fillets (like sea bass) - 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt - pepper to taste - 2 tablespoons of water - 1/4 cup of finely chopped mint See the procedure to prepare this recipe by clicking here.   In any case, it should be taken into account that what should never be done while performing any sports activity is to stop eating. This is counterproductive because whether you want to lose weight or tone muscle, a balanced diet is needed to achieve it, there is no doubt about that. On the other hand, poor nutrition combined with greater physical effort often results in injuries. Another recommendation is to do at least a couple of different exercises. Many do not know that the more you exercise in a specific way, the more your body gets used to that effort and stops being as effective. If we combine our routines with two or three different movements, we will achieve better results and a much more balanced body.   What type of exercise do you do?