Go Food and Fitness – Dietitian, exercise physiologist & Personal Fitness Trainer on the Sunshine Coast
Go Food and Fitness nutrition practices and exercise work hand in hand. Each one will benefit your body and your overall health, but together they provide the most benefits. Exercise helps absorb nutrients efficiently, and the right nutrients improve your workout performance.
Exercise is essential for improving your energy levels. The more you workout, the more energy you gain. But only if you are fueling properly with food! Your body needs fuel to be able to perform at peak levels and a combination of carbs, protein, and fat will allow you to exercise at your highest capacity
Exercise also helps make bones stronger. By strengthening the bones, you become less susceptible to breaks and diseases like osteoporosis. Calcium is also important in maintaining bone mass. Without calcium, your bones might not be able to withstand the impact of high-intensity exercise that is most beneficial to bones.
Skeletal muscle mass can decrease quickly due to aging, illness or diseases. Decreasing muscle mass means loss of strength. Protein is one of the nutrients that can help in your training to regain strength. Protein intake combined with strength training exercise has more of an impact on muscle mass than either one has individually. Strong skeletal muscle mass can help to burn fat and has also been related to decreased incidence of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Both nutrition and exercise are important for becoming and staying healthy but when you focus on balancing the two, you get much better results. Not only will you feel better now, fewer health problems will arise in the future. For the best results, eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly using both aerobic training and strength training.
Call Gabrielle Auld 0410 660 940
She is an accredited practising dietitian as well as an accredited exercise physiologist and will help you wade through all the myths that abound about diet and exercise
