Nutrition
Tips on Sports Drinks
Some general tips on incorporating sports drinks into your active routine along with alternatives on buying sports drinks without breaking the bank.
How to Make Your Own Sports Bars
An alternative sports bar recipe to fuel your athletic diet. Watch our original video to learn how to easily make these delicious healthy treats!
Proper Hydration for Athletes and Exercisers
A Points Sports Health original video with tips on how to hydrate correctly during sports and fitness activities.
Healthy, low-cal home-made protein shake for $0.60
Tired of paying $6 for a protein shake at the gym? Do protein shakes made from a packet of chemicals concern you? Try this great recipe for a 100% natural, delicious, nonfat, shake that can be used when you are short on time but want something nutritious!
Expanding Your Sports Diet: Seeds and Grains
The Athlete’s Kitchen Copyright: Nancy Clark MS RD CSSD December 2012 Times have changed from when we used to joke about folks who ate “nuts and berries.” Today’s athletes routinely enjoy nuts and berries and are now looking for ways to notch up their diets with more seeds (such as flax and chia) and
Sports Nutrition News from The Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
The Athlete’s Kitchen Copyright: Nancy Clark MS RD CSSD Nov 2012 The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association; the nation’s largest group of food and nutrition professionals) recently convened in Philadelphia (Oct., 2012). The following highlights from that conference may shed new light on ways for you to optimize your sports
Should We Enable Obesity?
The Athlete’s Kitchen Copyright: Nancy Clark MS RD CSSD October 2012 The joke goes like this: Americans don’t need to build bombs. We just need to export all of our junk food and spread obesity to the rest of the world so we all self-destruct together. Ha-ha-ha. But it’s not really funny, is it. It’s
Aerobic Exercise Cuts Kids’ Diabetes Risk
Just 20 minutes of exercise a day improved insulin resistance of overweight children.
For Skinny Athletes: How to Gain Weight Healthfully
If you are among the few skinny folks who have a hard time bulking up, you may be feeling frustrated you can’t do something as simple as gain a few pounds
Joint Health: Ankles
Exercises to help strengthen and gain flexibility in your ankles for general joint health.
Joint Health: Knees
Exercises to help strengthen the surrounding muscles of the knees–focusing on functional training which helps you during your everyday physical activity.
Joint Health: Shoulder
Exercise tips for the shoulder and areas around the rotator cuff to help strengthen the muscles and protect your joints
Joint Health: Hip and Back
Paleo chair exercise to help strengthen the hip and back joints to them up and increase mobility
How Many Carbs Do Athletes Need?
I’ve cut back on bread, potato and pasta. My muscles feel tired a lot. How many carbs do I need?
