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The Be Battle Ready podcast is where everyday athletes, adventurers, and seekers of strength come to forge resilience - in body, mind, and spirit.
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Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Boulder isn’t just a great place for triathletes to hang out. These days it seems like a large number of my guests also hang out there including today’s guest, Dina Griffin.
Dina is a sports dietician who not only addresses needs related to disease and illness but also takes a proactive approach in optimizing health to prevent disease, deficiencies, and breakdowns via personalized sports nutrition coaching, consulting, and physiology testing. I have specifically invited her onto the show to chat about nutrition for female athletes.
I first met Dina, virtually of course, when she presented this topic to a group of TrainingPeaks coaches a few weeks back and I thought, why have we never had a guest on to speak about this? So here she is and it’s another great conversation as we discuss:
- Why nutrition education is an important first step to improving your health and performance
- Key differences to female physiology in Pre, peri, and post menopause
- The differences in nutritional approach during each phase
- How and what to adjust in your nutrition programme during the low and high hormone phases of your monthly cycle
- Some training alterations you might want to consider during the same phase
- Benefits of protein and why you should probably eat more
- Lift Heavy Stuff regardless of your age (TIP: The third time this topic has come up. If you haven’t got the message yet….)
- Gut health and why focussing on this in your 30’s will help during peri-menopause
- Supplements - should you take them and if so which ones
To find out more about Dina Griffin, please visit her website https://nutritionmechanic.com/
You can also find Dina on:
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nutritionmechanic/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dina.howtongriffin
We covered several other subjects during the show and here are some of the links:
Recent podcast on Gut Health with Bella Lindeman
FitRWoman app - track your period and train smarter
WildAI - turn your menstrual cycle into an advantage
Feed Zone Portables A cookbook of on the go food for athletes
Feed Zone Cook Book Fast & favourable food for athletes
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