30 Days of Training Female Athletes, Day 26: Nutrition for Female Athletes to Become Powerful

04 Jan 30 Days of Training Female Athletes, Day 26: Nutrition for Female Athletes to Become Powerful

Posted at 02:27h in Blog, Female Athletes by erica 0 Comments

It wasn’t until junior year of college soccer when I took my nutrition seriously.

Up until that point, I didn’t have access to nutritional resources, nor did I get good education on how to fuel and nourish my body to play at my best.

So it became pregame with potato chips, a grilled cheese and then post game with Chik Fil A drive through, with maybe a cookies n’ cream milkshake to top it off. Okay, okay, I went for the milkshake every time. ;-O

My wake-up call happened as soon as college soccer became more rigorous, I was starting, I was breaking records, and I had to continue to show up for my team. There were days I felt so incredibly flat, bogged down, not as explosive and not as agile.

Initially, I thought my decline in performance had to do with my training, so I decided to hit the gym harder, run more, and not take off, only to notice an even more immense wane in performance.

So I dug deeper.

What I found was I was over-training and under-fueling, which is a hormonal recipe for disaster, causing disruptions in sleep, recovery, and game day speed, agility and second half energy.

I am so grateful to have the queen of nutrition on the podcast to go over why female athletes need to fuel to become their fastest, strongest, fittest and most powerful, unstoppable selves.

Enjoy the full episode here: