Mixing Workouts with better Nutrition
When it comes to burning calories, fitness professionals are the experts. When it comes to consuming calories, however, they may not be the best source of information.
Fitness instructors and personal trainers receive very little, if any, nutritional education as part of their training. Yet, they’re constantly quizzed about what foods to eat, what to avoid and what diet works best.
Good trainers stay within the scope of their practice and offer general nutrition advice as it pertains to exercise. Too often, however, trainers provide counselling that is not only well outside of their expertise, it’s just plain wrong.
“Unfortunately, there is a great deal of misinformation about nutrition,” said Liz Applegate, director of sports nutrition at University of California Davis, during the American College of Sports Medicine Health and Fitness Summit and Exposition. “It’s a very personal topic and you’re dealing with all kinds of beliefs and myths.”
Headlines touting the latest nutritional trends and studies abound, making it tough for fitness professionals to decipher whether the information is overblown, understated or worthy of sharing with their clientele.
Professional dietitians, on the other hand, are well trained to evaluate and decode nutritional information. They have at least 3½ years of university level classes devoted to nutrition and nutritional counselling.
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