The pain!

This arm strain is no better. Much to the mirth of people here at my office. For some reason I have a reputation that I am a bit of a wimp, and the idea that I have a muscle to strain has been the running joke of the day.

I’m still off to the gym tonight though. I’m going to take it a little easier on the chest and shoulder exercises and focus more on the cardio stuff (rowing machine and swimming mainly)

Anyway, the purpose of today’s post, my food for sport research has gone well. I found this page from the Food Standards Agency and it seems to tell me all that I needed and wanted to know about the fuel that I am putting into this exercise machine.

Basically, for the moment while at the training getting fit stage, I just need to eat a good rounded sensible diet, as long as it is varied enough to cover all the vitamin bases I should be set. I think I might add a glass of milk into my daily diet because I probably don’t get enough calcium but apart from that I am doing everything right. My meals are varied and well rounded, I don’t buy processed foods and use fresh where possible, apart from the odd once a month fast food splurge, I am on the health food line already.

On the same website there is a bit about the foods to be eaten in the build up to a marathon here . I’ll bear this in mind for when we start racing next year but at the moment it doesn’t seem very relevant to our current activities.