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FUEL
I get embarrassed when I see how slim I was. -EDDY MERCKX
The focus of this book is training, not diet, but there is no denying the complex connections between nutritional practices and exhaustive exercise. Eating foods to which the human body is optimally adapted will reduce body fat, improve recovery, decrease down time due to illness, and generally enhance athletic performance. The older you are, the more important diet is for performance. At age 20, you can make some dietary mistakes and get away with it. At age 50 everything is crucial, especially diet. Age is not the only individual variable for which diet is critical. For many female athletes who are chronically low in iron stores and fighting a seemingly endless battle to keep off excess pounds, getting their diet right is crucial to athletic success. For the athlete who eats a junk food diet low in micronutrients, recovery and performance will ultimately suffer due to illness and constant fatigue. Even something as seemingly innocuous as eating the right foods but at the wrong times relative to training will pro- long recovery and reduce performance levels. Other than training and rest, nothing is as important for your race results as what you eat and when you eat it.
So what should you eat ? Suppose you were a zookeeper and in charge of select- ing food for the animal. It wouldn’t be too difficult to figure out that the lions thrive on a diet made up primarily of the protein in meat and the giraffes do best when allowed to graze on vegetation. You wouldn’t feed leaves and grass to the lions. Nor would you feed the giraffes meat. Their health and well-being would decline if you did. So there are foods that are optimal for different types of animal. Why are these particular foods optimal for these animals? Because they evolved eating such foods. For as long as lions and giraffes have been on the planet they have eaten these foods. As the zookeeper, you will not change that. It’s best to accept it.
食物燃料
我感到很窘迫当我看到我自身是那么的苗条 -EDDY MERCKX
此书关注的是训练，而非饮食，但是不可否认营养习惯和劳累的练习之间有着非常复杂的关系。人体摄入其合适的食物能帮助减少体脂肪，促进恢复，减少因疾病导致的中断训练，并能全面的提高运动能力。你的年龄越大，饮食所起到的功效越重要。当你20岁的时候，你可以犯下饮食的错误并还能顺利的摆脱。可当你50岁时，所有的事情都至关重要，尤其是饮食。饮食的重要性不仅仅体现在年龄这个变数上。对于很多慢性缺铁并且要长期保持体重的女运动员来说，她们的饮食关系到她们的成绩。对于一个运动员，若吃了低营养的垃圾食品，最终会因为疾病和持久疲劳导致恢复和训练的痛苦。甚至是一些看起来没有危害的食物，即便是平时吃的食物放在了错误的时间段食用，也会延长恢复时间和降低训练效果。除了训练和休息，没有什么能比你吃什么和什么时候吃更重要的了。
所以你该吃些什么呢？ 设想你是个动物园管理者负责给动物挑选食物。不难想出给狮子喂以蛋白质为主的肉类，给长颈鹿喂植被是最好的。你不会给狮子吃草给长颈鹿喂肉。如果你这么做，狮子和长颈鹿的的健康状况会下降。所以对不同类型的动物来说有其最适合的食物。为什么这些动物偏偏就适合这些食物呢？因为它们进化发展成吃这样的食物。只要狮子和长颈鹿还在这个星球上存在它们就吃这些食物。作为动物管理员，你无法改变这个情况。你最好能接受这个事实。 |
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