Coachedbycharlotte

If you train for 5ks, 10ks, half marathons, full marathons, triathlons, Hyrox, netball or football, you need to full like an athlete.

Sports nutrition is not the same as everyday nutrition.
To get the most out of your race, game, or training for your chosen discipline timing, content and meeting the demands of that discipline.

I still have the same conversations!!!

Trends change, and social media has found creative ways to suck you into a lot of weird s**t that really doesn’t work.

The fundamentals have never changed.

So I’ll be over here on this side of the internet kindly, and respectfully knocking some sense into you.

Its health and fitness, it’s not the Wild Wild West.

Three clients came to me with three completely different problems.

One thought she needed to train harder.
One thought she needed more discipline around food.
One thought an imperfect week meant she had failed.

None of them needed to be told to simply try harder.

They needed someone to look at what was actually happening, understand why they were struggling and adjust the plan accordingly.

This is why personalised coaching is so much more than receiving calories and a training program.

Your plan should account for your goals, your training demands, your recovery, your relationship with food and the reality of what is happening in your life.

Because if generic advice and “just be more disciplined” were enough, you probably would have solved it already.

If you’re ready for coaching that adapts to you instead of expecting your entire life to revolve around the plan, you can apply for 1:1 coaching through the link in my bio. 🖤

Your weight is up this morning… but did you actually gain body fat overnight?

Probably not.

Scale weight can shift by multiple kilos because of food volume, carbohydrates, sodium, hydration, digestion, your menstrual cycle, inflammation, stress and sleep.

Yet so many women allow one random weigh-in to dictate their mood, restrict their food or add unnecessary cardio.

One number without context tells you very little.

This is why I look at weekly averages and overall trends with my clients not whether the scale happened to spike after a late meal, a hard training session or a poor night’s sleep.

Your weight is data. It is not a judgement of how “good” you were yesterday, and it is not the only way to measure progress.

Swipe through to understand what may be influencing your weigh-ins and how to collect more useful data. Save this for the next morning the scale tries to mess with your head. 🤍

Strength training is still surrounded by so much misinformation especially when it comes to women.

How many of these did you already know? 👇🏼

We needed a Part 2… because the fitness industry had A LOT to say about women’s bodies.

For years, women were handed rules about how we should eat, train and look and somewhere along the way, those rules started being repeated as facts.

Some were based on outdated information.

Some were massive oversimplifications.

And some were just really good marketing to buy products and programs that don’t work.

The problem is, when you hear something enough times, you stop questioning whether it was ever true in the first place, and women’s physiology deserves a little more nuance than whatever is currently going viral on Instagram.

Part 2 of fitness “facts” we probably should have questioned a lot sooner. 👀

What should make Part 3? Comment on your “fitness facts” and I will make part 3. 👇