Simon Ward, Be Battle Ready - The podcast for strength, resilience, and longevity

Female Specific Nutrition * Simon Ward and Dina Griffin


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Boulder isn’t just a great place for triathletes to hang out. These days it seems like a large number of my guests also hang out there including today’s guest, Dina Griffin.

 

Dina is a sports dietician who not only addresses needs related to disease and illness but also takes a proactive approach in optimizing health to prevent disease, deficiencies, and breakdowns via personalized sports nutrition coaching, consulting, and physiology testing. I have specifically invited her onto the show to chat about nutrition for female athletes.

 

I first met Dina, virtually of course, when she presented this topic to a group of TrainingPeaks coaches a few weeks back and I thought, why have we never had a guest on to speak about this?  So here she is and it’s another great conversation as we discuss:

  • Why nutrition education is an important first step to improving your health and performance
  • Key differences to female physiology in Pre, peri, and post menopause
  • The differences in nutritional approach during each phase
  • How and what to adjust in your nutrition programme during the low and high hormone phases of your monthly cycle
  • Some training alterations you might want to consider during the same phase
  • Benefits of protein and why you should probably eat more
  • Lift Heavy Stuff regardless of your age (TIP: The third time this topic has come up. If you haven’t got the message yet….)
  • Gut health and why focussing on this in your 30’s will help during peri-menopause
  • Supplements - should you take them and if so which ones
  • To find out more about Dina Griffin, please visit her website https://nutritionmechanic.com/

    You can also find Dina on:

    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nutritionmechanic/

    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dina.howtongriffin

     

    We covered several other subjects during the show and here are some of the links:

    Recent podcast on Gut Health with Bella Lindeman

    FitRWoman app - track your period and train smarter

    WildAI - turn your menstrual cycle into an advantage

    Feed Zone Portables A cookbook of on the go food for athletes

    Feed Zone Cook Book Fast & favourable food for athletes

    To find out more about Simon’s SWAT programme, please click HERE 

    Visit Simon's website for more information about his coaching programmes

    Links to all of Simon's social media channels can be found here

    For any questions please email [email protected]

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