Long Beach Personal Trainer Offers Free Exercise and Nutrition Tips

As a Long Beach and Orange County Personal Trainer I am sometimes shocked at the number of people who try to work out regularly, but ignore their nutrition. Usually, these people don't have as much energy as they should to complete their workouts.

This is a shame, because through a few smart tweaks, you can make sure your diet perfectly complements your workout routines. Here are tips I offer my clients at my Long Beach Personal Trainer business if they want to make sure they are eating right for their regular exercise.

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Try to Eat Two Hours Before Your Workouts – If you eat too long before you workout, you risk feeling hungry by the time you finally hit the gym, and thus not working as hard as you could. If you eat too soon, you don't give your body enough time to convert that food into energy. Eating about two hours before your workout strikes a happy medium between these two problems, and should have you feeling energized for exercise time. This doesn't mean, of course, that you should work out hungry. If it's time to hit the gym and you feel your stomach, growling, have a little something, like a small granola bar or half a banana. That way you satisfy your hunger, but the slowdown that you can sometimes feel from digesting food doesn't interfere with your workout.

Remember your Carbs – Don't believe the fad diets. Your body needs carbohydrates. In fact, if you work out regularly, you actually need them more than your average couch potato. You get your energy from carbs, and if you try to eliminate carbohydrates from your diet, you might find yourself struggling through each workout. In addition, your muscles need a constant supply of carbohydrates in order to grow properly. The trick is to make sure you are getting your carbohydrates from the right sources, namely whole grains and vegetables. To get these kind of "good carbs" in your diet, you might have steel cut oatmeal flavored with cinnamon for breakfast, vegetable stir fry for dinner, and gnaw on baby carrots for a snack when you get hungry.

Get Your Sodium – Because sodium can be bad for people with heart conditions, people often make the mistake of thinking that a low sodium diet is always a good thing. But for people who don't have heart problems and exercise regularly, and thus expend a lot of energy and lose a lot of sodium through sweat, and good, constant supply of sodium can help give you that extra boost of energy you need. Sodium increases blood volume, which thus leads more nutrients being delivered to your muscles when you work out. So don't feel guilty about adding some extra salt to your eggs in the morning, or sloshing some high sodium hot sauce on your chicken. You will be doing yourself a favor when it comes time to work out.

Always Be Drinking Water – If there is one tip I have dispensed more than any other during my career as a Long Beach Personal Trainer, it is "drink more water." If you lead an active lifestyle, drinking water isn't just important while you are working out, it is important all the time. You hydration routine should begin in the morning, when you drink one to two glasses with breakfast. You should continue to drink throughout the day, making sure you drink before you get thirsty. Thirty minutes before your workout, you should drink one to two more glasses. During your workout, you should drink about half a cup of water for every fifteen minutes of exercise, and another cup after you are done working out.

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