Eat This for Performance

SSM Episode #24

Unless you live under a rock here in Montreal chances are you follow (whether you intend to or not) the fate of the storied hockey franchise, the Montreal Canadiens. 

Here at ET4P head office we are excited to welcome in the head strength and conditioning coach of Les Canadiens, Patrick Delisle-Houde.  Patrick started his elite hockey career playing in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League before choosing to study and play at McGill. While captaining the McGill University Redmen, Patrick completed his bachelor degree in Kinesiology and his masters degree in Exercise Physiology receiving awards such as the Guy Lafleur Trophy, 1938 Champion Award, and David L. Montgomery Award. Patrick is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the NSCA and certified Corrective Exercise Specialist by the NASM.  Patrick has published multiple research journal articles and is still currently involved in sport sciences and performance research. You can follow him on Twitter @DelisleHoude  

Key teachings in this podcast: 

How body composition is looked at at the pro sport level

Simple but clear direction around muscle gains

What younger athletes can focus on when it comes to body composition.

Exciting news for those looking to evaluate their own body composition. Do not let body fat, muscle mass, and all the measurements trip you up. Starting May 6 here at Eat This for Performance we will set you on a path to master body composition talk for life and use it to your advantage to Map Your Performance Body. Sign up for our FREE professionally guided 5 day challenge by going to go.et4p.com/challenge.

SSM Episode #23

Success leaves clues. Did you ever look around you at “successful” people and try to figure out what it is that makes them successful? Every day you can be closer to your greatest success and it starts with you morning routine. All very successful people will agree the morning routine sets them up to accomplish the most in their day. A poor morning routine will usually result in a mediocre day. This begs the question “What is the ideal morning routine”? Do I always need to eat breakfast? This is a question we get all the time at Eat This for Performance. The answer is not so black and white. In this episode Pearle Nerenberg, the founder and CEO of Eat This for Performance, shares her morning routine and she gives you the 4 skills you will need to master in order to make high performance food part of your morning routine. 

Today we introduce the pre-launch of our 4-skill performance eating sports nutrition course. This is the course everyone should take at least once to finally understand nutrition. No Diets. No scientific jargon. We give you a simple and natural way to get a consistent high performance on command. et4p.com/go

SSM Episode #22 

Patricia Chuey is a sports dietitian sought after speaker and the author of 5 cookbooks.  She spent 9 years managing the nutrition affairs for a major supermarket chain and as an avid baker created an all-purpose gluten-free flour sold in Canadian stores. She’s been nutritionist for NBA and NHL teams and has assisted athletes and consumers of all ages with eating for energy. She is a recipient of the highest honour for a Canadian Dietitian - the Ryley-Jeffs Memorial Award. She has also received Fellowship in Dietitians of Canada and an Alumni of Influence Award.

Mom to a busy athlete, the local kids know they’re always in for yummy after-school snacks at Patricia’s family home. She runs the school fruit and vegetable program and lives an active, outdoor life. She grew up with prairie farmer parents in sunny Saskatchewan but now makes her home and garden by the ocean on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Follow her on social media for delicious ideas. @patriciachuey

In this episode we delve deep into some common sports nutrition concerns you should be aware of and we tackle the toughest nutrition nut to crack: the tournament weekend. Can sports nutrition prevail here? The answer from Patricia is a resounding YES. She shares with us how to veritably NEXT LEVEL a hotel room (and even shared a pic with us you just have to see -> Go to our podcast page on https://et4p.com for the sneak peak!). If you want the step by step guide to planning your own extraordinarily well-fed with performance enhancing foods tournament weekend then hop on over to our mini-courses page to catch the "Ultimate Tournament Planning" mini-course https://et4p.com/mini-courses.

SSM Episode #21 

Jana Sedivec spent her first career perfecting her swing on the tennis court and now in her second career as a certified personal trainer she is well on her way to perfecting the mompreneure super sports mom life. Jana is the owner of Studio Vie (http://www.lestudiovie.com) where I had the enormous pleasure of working myself back to fitness following both my pregnancies. Jana continues to inspire new moms everyday to find energy and balance in their new role. Jana is the mom of 3 athletic children and in this must listen to interview we delve into her own tremendous athletic career that led her to fulfill a dream and play pro tennis. If you are needing some inspiration and especially if your young athlete is entering the elite phase of their career this interview will help you out. We discuss what it takes to make it, and how college was a the logical step to going pro and what it took to get to each step. Jana then takes us full circle as we delve into her Super Sports Mom life with her eldest hitting the elite track in sport and what that means to her when it comes to some recent elite level tournament planning. 

It is perfect timing for us to be discussing tournament planning because here at Eat This for Performance we have you covered for tournament and travel weekend planning. If you are looking for a one stop checklist of everything to do when you are planning the food for your next away weekend whether you are a parent, player or coach then you will want to hop on over to check out our ultimate tournament planning mini-course launching March 6. Go to https://et4p.com/mini-courses

SSM Episode #20

Nicole Woodard is the owner and founder of Mobility Physical Therapy LLC - athletic and active people listen up! Nicole offers her quality care to athletes online - what?! You can get virtual therapy and she breaks down her 4 part framework to keeping you injury free in this podcast. Nicole invites you to check her out on her website and blog: https://mobilityphysicaltherapyllc.com as well as join her facebook group where she will give you a free assessment of an exercise upon entry https://www.facebook.com/groups/mobilityathlete/.

Nicole is Mrs Joyful and lights up everyone she touches with her warmth and enthusiasm. We were lucky to have this tri-athlete, cross-fitter, entrepreneur, and super mom on the SSM podcast today. 

In this episode we learned a very important piece of info on injury prevention and why we are potentially wasting our limited resources.

Nicole also highlights the  #1 thing you should be doing with your kids to get them ready for sport and an active life.

Of course injury prevention is one of our goals here at eat this for performance and we can be preventing illness and injury when we eat for performance and avoid deficiency. Right now there is a very good chance you are vitamin D deficient, but before you go grab a supplement you would be wise to grab our vitamin D mini-course and you can get all of the scientific updates on this powerful vitamin. Go to https://et4p.com/vitamind-course.

SSM Episode #19

Julie Boyer is a local emergency medical doctor and Super Sports Mom. She is the mom of 3 athletic children and is a bit of a local hockey legend herself. 

Today we talk very respectfully about what Julie has learned in her years as a parent and a coach and one thing you can do that she wished she had done more of. 

We delve into the role of coaches in the development of the athlete and how to handle tryouts from the parents perspective as it is not the same as the kids perspective. She share 2 very revealing stories of triumph after being cut from a team.

In today’s winning culture we are tasked with figuring out what truly is a win because it is not always what we see on the scoreboard. A winning mentality can start with what you put in your body and we have your sports nutrition covered here at Eat This for Performance. The research on vitamin D is showing very strong evidence that supplementation may be an important part of many diets. Go to https://et4p.com/vitamind-course to get all of the current information that you can be using to make supplementation decisions. 

SSM Episode #18

It all started with an injury and through this injury Julie Felbar finds yoga. In this interview we review how yoga can be a game changer for athletes. Julie is the owner of yoga 4 hockey (yoga4hockey.com). 

She discusses the importance of discerning between the different types of yoga, she clears up that there are 2 qualities to absolutely look for in your sports yoga specialist, and she reviews the 2 ways athletes can use yoga today to improve their game today.  

We both agree you should not wait until you are injured to take action. Learn from us! Injuries happen when you do not take care of your body and we have some new science to share with you that could help you take care of your body better along with a functional training program that includes yoga. It’s more fun than you know! Hop on over to et4p.com/gelatin-course and grab our mini-course on gelatin. We purposely hide our mini-courses as they are reserved for the members of our Champions sports nutrition coaching program, so take advantage of our gift, it’s priced at $11 to make sure you can get this valuable tool for a fraction of the price of a private professional session. Again, that is et4p.com/gelatin-course.

SSM Episode #17

In this interview we delve into some key areas in injury, the mindset of injury and what you could be doing to overcome  injury and get back to playing your sport. We also tackle Maria's expert area and talk about the important things a new hockey goalie parent could be doing for their child. Advice #1, is a mistake to be sure to avoid!

Maria Mountain, MSc is a full-time strength coach, speaker and goalie training consultant.  She is the founder of GoalieTrainingPro.com, the leading authority for effective, scientifically supported off-ice training that actually helps goalies like you, perform better on the ice.

She has helped goalies at every level from AA, Jr, ECHL, European Pro, Adult League, AHL and the NHL play to their potential, win more games and experience fewer injuries.  She’s the one goalie coaches call when they need the right off-ice exercises to help goalies move the way they need to move on the ice. 

This episode also marks the launch of our new mini course on injury prevention, it's going to be goodie. Check out Amazing Joint Strength with Gelatin mini course, go to https://et4p.com/gelatin-course!

SSM Episode #16

Lindsay Grinevitch is a real mom sports mom who is walking the walk.

Today we get to hear Lindsay's #1 advice for new sports moms (hint, hint,  we loooove her advice here at Eat This for Performance) and she shares with us how and when to look at functional training in youth sports from an expert perspective.

Lindsay holds a Bachelor of Physical Education and Recreation from the University of Alberta and is an active member of the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology as a certified personal trainer (CPT) with 8 years experience in the field of exercise science. She currently offers personal/group fitness training through the Bonnyville Centennial Centre as a contract fitness trainer, as well as mobile training services. 

Of note to her local hockey community, Lindsay will be offering youth hockey off ice strength and conditioning training for 11/12 & 13/14  year old athletes this spring/summer. 

Lindsay practices Holistic Nutrition coaching and is the co founder of the wellness coaching business Health Refresh. Find Lindsay at Health Refresh on FB and @health.refresh on Instagram.

SSM Episode #15

On today's episode we delve into a sports philosophy Peter Dale coined called Farmtology. On his 51/2 acre farm in Wisconsin Peter coaches the athletes who dare to be great how to be farm tough and live by Farmtology. It's true that we all need a good coach in our lives at some point and Peter stands out as a great coach. We had the pleasure of hearing him speak about key topics like communication within families, creating self-confidence, and a favorite success story from one of his farm tough athletes. For more info on Peter Dale please go to www.farmtoughhockey.com. As always, I thank  you for listening and do make sure to rate the podcast so more people can learn about Peter!