By: Heidi Harris, RD-N, LD-N, CD-N
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Batter Up! How to Support Your Nutrition to Optimize Your Power on the Baseball Field‡
By: Heidi Harris, RD-N, LD-N, CD-N
What You’ll learn: In this blog you’ll learn about the nutrients needed to help support power, strength, and speed to help maximize your baseball season.‡
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Mental Fatigue in Athletes: Overcoming Mental Exhaustion to Promote Performance‡
By: Heidi Harris, RD-N, LD-N, CD-N
What You’ll Learn: In this blog, we will discuss what mental fatigue is in athletes, how to identify mental fatigue, how it effects an athlete’s performance and which lifestyle practices and nutrients to help support overcoming mental fatigue.‡
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Heart Rate Training: Discover the Different Energy Zones
By: Heidi Harris, RD-N, CD-N, LD-N
What you’ll learn: In this blog, we will discuss the different heart rate zones, dive into the percentages of maximum heart rate and what type of nutritional support you can provide your body to help optimize your next heart rate training session.‡
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10 tips to start your summer training season
By Klean Team sponsored athlete, Lori Russell, MSESS MS RDN LD CPT
Set goals, follow a plan and set yourself up for success during the sun & fun of summer with these 10 training tips.
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Why Every Athlete May Benefit from Supporting Their Connective Tissue: Q/A With Doctor Lavrich
By: Heidi Harris, RD-N, CD-N, LD-N
What You’ll Learn: In this blog, we interview Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Janet Lavrich who gives us her professional tips as to how to help support your connective tissue and overall ligament health.‡
The Connection:
It’s here: training season is upon us. I know, your performance, your outcome and your overall training schedule is probably at the forefront of your mind. But have you felt the stiffness in your joints after training? Have you noticed a slowness to recover? Have you noticed the achiness in your muscles more recently? I’d be willing to bet that there’s something else you may be concerned about… your ligaments. Ligaments are those short bands of tough, fibrous connective tissue which work to connect bones or cartilage to a larger muscle at a joint.1 As an athlete, you know nurturing your connective tissue is crucial to peak performance. The last thing anyone wants is to be sidelined for half of a season because you’re nursing poorly nurtured connective tissue.‡
Acknowledging your weakness can be your greatest strength
By Klean Team Sponsored Athlete Lisa Roberts
How many of us look at our weaknesses and try to ignore them, hide them or pretend they don’t exist? It’s so much easier and more fun to do what we’re good at all the time. But what if we turned that around to fully acknowledge what our weaknesses are, bring them to the forefront and use them to make us better? And dare I say, DO THEM MORE!
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Powerlifter Tries Bodybuilding
By: Klean Team Member David Ross
Why Bodybuilding?
I get asked this a lot. I was a competitive powerlifter for over ten years. All I focused on was getting stronger and staying healthy. I never wanted to be the guy who looked so big that you confused him for a parade balloon that escaped. I respected bodybuilders. They push themselves in ways that didn’t make sense to me, but I preferred being strong and eating ice cream without feeling guilty. Once I got older, despite the mobility work, I found the heavy weights becoming more and more taxing on my body. If I’m completely honest, there was an inkling of jealousy as well. While I had told myself I didn’t care about the aesthetics, I would find myself becoming discouraged when I saw bodybuilders in the gym that despite weighing 20lbs less than I did, and not being able to come close to the weight I lifted, looked far bigger and stronger than I did. Having people compare me became a little disheartening. So, when the weights started hurting a little more, I let my ego get the better of me and decided that maybe I’d try this bodybuilding thing out. How hard could it be?
Outdoor Training: What to consider when transitioning from indoor to outdoor training.
By: Klean Team Sponsored Run Coach & Athlete Stacey Gross
The days are getting longer, and the weather is starting to feel more like spring every day which means it’s time to get outside to train.
Whether you took the winter off to rest from the fall race season or your focus was base building indoors, here are a few tips for how you can transition to training outdoors.
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Sleep & Athletic Performance: Why Every Athlete Needs a Bedtime Routine
By: Heidi Harris, RD-N, CD-N, LD-N
What You’ll Learn: In this blog we will discuss how sleep and athletic performance may be related and how healthy sleep hygiene can help power your peak performance.‡
Powering Peak Performance Through Sleep:
We’ve all likely heard the phrase, “Get a good night’s rest.” This isn’t just an empty platitude, there’s significant meaning behind this saying. Sleep is an overall healthy component of any lifestyle as it helps promote healthy wellness, hormone metabolism and even immune support.1 But, did you know that sleep and athletic performance go hand-in-hand? Physical activity has long been touted for its ability to help promote sleep quality. But, it works both ways, sleep also has been shown to help support athletic performance.2‡
Despite these benefits, research shows that many athletes fail to obtain the recommended amount of sleep which can threaten performance. Obstacles such as training schedules, travel, stress, academic demands and even over-training can affect proper sleep.2 Want to learn how you can help support your healthy sleep hygiene? Keep reading to find our why your inner athlete may want a new bedtime routine to power your peak performance through healthy sleep.‡
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