How to Eat Right for a Fitness Program

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is David Brown and today we are going to talk about how to eat right for a fitness program. Now with any fitness program or any kind of diet advice, the first thing that I'd like to tell you is that you should probably talk with a nutritionist or perhaps a physician or even a trusted professional in the field of fitness and nutrition, and discuss about your goals. Whether it's to gain weight or lose weight. Those kinds of things are very important and if you have any kind of medical history, it's really important that you get those things out on the table before you go on any new diet or exercise plan. Now the actual eating right, there's just some basic tips we are going to go over today. First and most important thing is being hydrated. Make sure you are getting at least eight glasses of water per day. And those eight glasses should be roughly, eight to sixteen ounces depending on how large you are, how much you sweat, there's a lot of things that go into that. But at the end of the day if you are not drinking water, you are not going to use the food properly that you are about to eat. Now as far as constituents of your meals, typically on a healthy diet you want to get roughly sixty percent carbohydrates. Now there's other ways to look at that, it can be anywhere from forty to seventy depending on how your diet is set up. But sixty percent is a good recommendation. And it's typically about five to six grams of carbohydrates per kilogram of body weight. Protein it's roughly a gram of protein for every kilogram of body weight. It's about all you need to get through your day. Now after you look at your protein, your carbohydrates whatever is left in your diet, that's what you want to get from fat. Now all of these sources you want to look at good healthy sources for carbohydrate, you want to stay away from junk foods. Stay away from sweets, you want to look for good complex carbohydrates, brown rices, whole wheat pastas ,things of that nature. Proteins, good lean proteins from meat sources, vegetable soy sources or milk proteins are excellent. And for fats, you want to look for Omega three or other types of polyunsaturated fats that come from vegetables such as canola oil, and corn oil and then going to the next step is a monounsaturated fat which comes from olive oil. Which is perhaps the best oil you an eat. Plan what you are going to go buy at the grocery store, have a plan of how you are going to cook your meals and the way you can do that is go find a healthy cookbook. Go to any store that has you know, any bookstore that has cookbooks. Find something that makes sense to you and your lifestyle, and good luck."