Runners tips : BEST nutrition for runners



Learn how to fuel your running performance with the right nutrition. In this video, I’ll provide helpful tips and information on what to …

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  1. Great vid ! you said cool things. the fueling is a science , you need to go Analyzing the body. and not eat just to eat! so more Beef and Nuts and Cheese. is tbhat a mid day meal for you ?

  2. Hi Stephen, I found you a week ago and I want to say thank you for these videos. I am at a point in my running where I am being competitive and your nutrition videos are absolutely brilliant. My diet is great for my running but I haven't been mindful of the day before so thanks for this advise šŸ‘šŸƒ

  3. Iā€™ve been running for years, but always as a way to meditate and de-stress if that makes sense. Iā€™ve only run about 25k/week (5k/5days). Now Iā€™m interested in upping my distance (Iā€™m running now between 35-40k per week). I want to learn more about fueling my body and strength training to improve my running experience as I work in more kilometers. Thanks for the video!

  4. I love the video and the channel in general Stephen, thank you for your contributions here. Your breakdown on nutrition needs for a high volume runner is excellent. Is there any chance you may do a video on what your final days / week leading up to a peak marathon may look like? I'm assuming it would be similar to how you eat the day before a quality session but over the few days leading up? Would be super interesting to hear the approach from someone at your racing level. Thank you again. šŸ™

  5. helpful video. Now your words haunt me, but that's okay. today, waiting for my daughter, I walked around the city and I was tempted for a kebab. my body didn't need it but my brain convinced me that tomorrow i'll burn it running so i'm not doing anything wrong. he is really smart. but I have remorse so your video works šŸ’ŖšŸ‘

  6. I have been watching your videos, overall I feel like they provide good information. However, I find them way too long for the amount of actual information is provided. They could be more concise. Thank you

  7. I write everything down in a journal from day to day. From what I eat to how I slept the night before. What was my mood. My energy levels. My resting pulse. What was the weather like? I'm fairly muscular at 190 lbs because I used to go to the gym rather than run. Now I don't go at all. Just running and calisthenics. I want to run my first marathon this year and just came back from a 10-mile run. I felt good and have been careful not to overstress my body but I wonder if I should start dropping weight to become a more efficient runner? I'm a lot like you when it comes to nutrition. More healthy fats and proteins and less carbs. It seems to keep my joints fluid and healthy. Just not sure on dropping too much weight.

  8. @stephen scullion – i roast you veggies in coconut oil and salt/pepper and they all turn out amazing, even my kids sometimes eat themā€¦. Brussels sprouts and brocoli slightly charred is amazing with the sweet fatty coconut oilā€¦. Yum yumā€¦. Been trying to eat more sweet potatoā€™s during the day

  9. After 10+ years of experimenting in terms of body fuelling at certain point I stopped counting calories as well.
    But it is only one little thing I came to. All in all the stuff on the the channel is awesome! Thank you!

  10. Stephen this is a very interesting broadcast…. Nutrition, ADHD and Diabetes …. a member of my family is a type 1 diabetic and I've often thought about my sweet gels that I take and my non stop appetite…. do you know of gel alternatives for diabetic runners ?

    Currently I'm in Xterra Snowdonia Trail ULTRA this summer and last year I took 'tailwind' powder with all my drinks (and it's like adding 2kg of sugar to every thing)…. I need alternatives
    and when I ask others they laugh saying all gels contain sugar….. I'm sure the don't!

  11. Love the information. Nutrition is what I struggle the most with. I have never thought of decreasing/increasing carbs based on the run the next morning during my training block. Thanks!!

  12. Thank you for sharing. Calories do matter, though. In fact, on take away for me from this video is about how you time you
    macronutrient intake to support your training load. When we acknowledge that food is fuel, we accept that calories are important. We need to remind ourselves to look at calories are the energy value of our food, that fuel that we need to support our training. The disconnect in talk about 'nutrition' is that we focus so much on calorie counting in terms of weight and fat loss and management. it seems that the true definition of calories has been overlooked. When we re-visit the idea of calorie as a measurement of energy, we are reminded that we need enough of them to give us energy to live, train, move, breathe and do everything else we do. Calories absolutely matter but we can focus less on counting them when we focus on getting them from good quality food which happens when we look at choosing more high nutrient quality foods. Less processing in the food we eat means less garbage we have to filter out and more micronutrients attached to the fuel we take in. Better food, better fuel. Having said that, I will continue to eat plenty of cookies and ice cream.

  13. This was brilliant, thanks so much for all of your videos. You mentioned the body being able to hold on to about 400 calories of extra carbs the night before a long run. Is this the case for everyone or just your body? I'm quite a bit bigger than you (6'3" 200lbs) and just wondered if I might need to eat a bit more?

  14. Stephen, I have one question: You are very lean (low bodyfat) but still talk about some variation in weight, and manipulating this through diet. I guess hunger is a natural thing in periods when you try to loose weight. My question is, when you are doing the most important races of the year, do you lean down for this race? If so, how do this express itself with stuff like recovery and sleep towards a race? Have you ever eaten to little towards a race, which has impacted the race negatively?

  15. Funny you ask about who decided to make food a part of routine. When the European colonists were settling the Americas, the fact that they ate three meals a day was a source of pride to differentiate themselves from the ā€œsavagesā€ of the native tribes. Iā€™m sure thatā€™s something thatā€™s just been passed down through the generations, because my father and I always row when I point out that you donā€™t need to eat a full plate of sausage, eggs, toast and whatever else because you havenā€™t done anything to generate the hunger. It doesnā€™t compute with him. Old habits die hard.

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