Making Your Weight

Nutrition for Athletes

Whether you exercise daily or train to compete at an amateur or professional level, being an athlete places special demands on your body.

In general, athletes require more nutrients and greater caloric intake than people who don’t exercise and their recovery and training efforts make this requirement even more crucial.  Athletes typically face six challenges when comes to optimal performance.

1. A lack of easily digestible nutrients in abundant levels
2. Achieving sustainable energy and peak performance
3. A compromised immune system
4. Slow recovery time (especially so as we age)
5. Ability to maintain lean muscle and body fat levels
6. Finding healthy nutrition on-the-go

Complications

On top of the additional nutrition demands, the athlete also faces several additional challenges.

The more we exercise the more free radicals our body creates.  It is perfectly natural process and something that can be easily handled with eating fruits and vegetables. Let me clarify that, it was once easy to handle with fruits and vegetables.

The nutrition foods contain have been replaced with toxins and poisons.  Even under the best organic conditions the problem remains because you still need to water the plants, they take in elements from polluted air, animals that come through the gardens carry what ever they picked up from some where else and on and on.  I do believe that organic foods are a much better choice over conventionally grown varieties, but it does not solve the problem.

The environment we live in add additional troubles.  Take for example someone that runs or bikes anywhere close to roads.  The exhaust from passing cars and trucks take a huge toll on your body.  You are breathing much deeper than the average person just as a cloud of toxins drift right into your path.

So the moral of this story is that you need highly nutritious foods in proper balances that not only don’t add to your bodies current over supply of dangerous chemicals and toxins, but can actually help rid the body of  them.

A very, very tall order.

The Isagenix Advantage

If you have spent any time on our blog you know that of the ’solutions’ available, we have found the Isagenix products to be our go-to brand.  This was not a business choice, it was a life choice.  We looked at many options, including all the best foods we could find from quality markets like WholeFoods and PCC (or whatever the healthy food stores are in your area). Although we do shop at these markets, even the best available products couldn’t solve the problem.  At best they slowed the accumulation of toxins and provided somewhat higher levels of nutrition.  Both good, but our demands are much higher and as an athlete or someone that is looking to reach higher levels will agree.

The Isagenix program emphasize optimized nutrition, nutritional cleansing and unique nutrient profiles that support cellular function, healthy weight loss (as a side result of balanced nutrition) and improved energy.  They also give support to the body’s most important systems, including the immune system.  We hear it time and time again, with Isagenix you feel the difference!

What’s in the Products?

The product line up offers complete nutrition and the flexibility to customize the components to meet your needs. For instance the IsaPro is the whey protein that is also used in the meal replacement shake IsaLean. With the IsaPro to your IsaLean or directly to what you are eating as you need the additional protein.

The following are some of the components of the impressive nutrient profile found in Isagenix products;

• Ionic Minerals - These include more than 7- rare, supercharged ionic minerals and trace minerals found in prehistoric beds of organic plant material deep in the Earth.  These beds provide superior sources of organic nutrients, most notably ionic minerals, organic carbon and fulvic acid.  The body is composed primarily of minerals and when we sweat, we loose valuable electrolytes and minerals.
• Vitamins - These products support athletic activity because they contain powerful antioxidants and nutrients including vitamins A,C,E,D,B1, B2, B6 and B12.  Several of these vitamins are in unique formula enhance their availability and use throughout the day.
• Amino Acids - Athletes can enjoy a wide spectrum of essential and non-essential amino acids, which are crucial for performance, energy and effective recovery.  Amino acids are the building clocks for over 50,000 structures in the human body.
• Exclusive Whey Protein - IsaLean shakes exclusively sourced IsaPro complex, the highest quality whey and casein protein from the world’s largest dairy group in New Zealand.  These cows are pasture-fed and not treated with hormones, steroids or antibiotics. Additionally, the organic standards of this dairy group exceed the USDA organic standards and the whey uses is the highest-rated grade available.  Isagenix whey protein is over 80% bio-available.
• Essential Enzymes - nearly all the Isagenix products contain patented digestive enzymes that assist the body in transporting other minerals, vitamins and supernutrients to their intended location.
• Adaptogens - Isagenix uses a variety of adaptogens including ashwaganda and schizandra.  Thousands of clinical studies worldwide illustrate that adaptogens help the body deal with stress.  For the past two decades, world-class athletes have been using adaptogens to assist them with focus and peak performance.