New Range of Nutrition Services 2009!

Optimum Performance Fuel

So you have been training hard and if you have been subject to Optimum Performance Training then you have been given some of the most cutting edge training methods available, but is that enough?

I have taken another step to improving the service that I provide to you with Optimum Performance Fuel. Optimum Performance Fuel is a range of nutrition based services designed to help streamline your training and make sure that the fuel going in to your body is the appropriate type and quantity to match the exercise performed and the goals that you have set.

There are now three nutrition services available as part of the Optimum Performance Fuel range, one or more may be appropriate for you!

Nutrition Appraisal Checklist

The Nutrition Appraisal Checklist is a general list of nutrition based questions which your trainer will go through with you in order to show you what kind of foods are important to your diet whilst at the same time giving you a better underlying knowledge of nutrition. The questions are given marks for level of importance and the answers given can then be tallied up and an overall score given. The check list can be taken away for future use and reference to see how your score improves as your diet improves.

Food Apportioning Appraisal

A Food Apportioning Appraisal is designed to show how you have been apportioning your diet in the same way that you would see the foods on your plate. It can then be shown whether the segmentation of your food types is correct and which foods you could be lacking in or overloading on. It is a simplistic and very visual way of understanding your food.

The first step to evaluating your food apportioning is to complete a weeks worth of daily food consumption in the way of a Daily Food Diary. This can then be handed in to your trainer for assessing.

After completing your Daily Food Diary and returning it to your trainer, it will then be analysed and returned to you along with a Daily Food Diary Apportioning Results form which summarises your diet and how it has been apportioned, a Food Apportioning Guide which outlines correct apportioning and describes how your results are found and finally a Nutrition Review and Comments Form with some of your trainers thoughts and suggestions about your dietary needs.

Calorie Expenditure Appraisal

If you take your training and nutrition seriously then you will need to know a bit more about what food categories and quantities your body requires. If you do not get these correct for your body type and training type then it could mean the difference between failure and success, be it in competition or personal goals of achievement.

The Calorie Expenditure Appraisal is designed to calculate your needs from the beginning to end of each day of the week based on your body type, lifestyle and exercise program.

The first step of your appraisal is to complete a Calorie Expenditure Application Form which will help your trainer build up a picture of your bodily requirements throughout a six day period, subjects include; BMR, lifestyle, goals and a weekly exercise summary.

After you have completed the application form your trainer will take your information away for analysis. When the analysis is completed your application will then be returned and you will be provided with the following;

·          Calorie Expenditure Results & Functional Requirements form; this will outlay General Daily Requirements (GDI), exercise expenditure for each phase of the day conducted and daily averages and total daily expenditure

·          Calorie Intake Percentage Guide which you will be able to use to calculate your own macronutrient requirements and convert to grams and grams per kilogram of bodyweight

·          Recommended Dietary Intake Guide for your reference and calculations

·          Nutrition Review & Comments Form with some of your trainer’s notes and recommendations.

In all you will be provided with enough information for your present and future training needs to ensure that you are providing your body with the correct fuel type and quantity enabling you to excel to new levels in your health and fitness, please contact me if you would like to know more or book in an appointment.