Nutrition: Summer Shred | Pt. 1

good nutrition starts with habits – Part 1: Habits

If you’re looking to shred up this summer or dial in your nutrition, we’ve got you with this series on Nutrition.

Here’s the best part, you will barely notice you are making changes to your day to day and will see incredible results. It’s all about habits at Allegiate: come in 3x a week, sleep 8 hours, drink half your body weight in ounces in water a day, eat 8 servings of vegetables a day, and remove electronics/screens while you are eating. 

If you did not know you have all these habits on your Allegaite App. Open the app, click the "… more tab” and then watch The Habits videos. This content includes videos and tutorials to follow. The overwhelming amount of nutrition information out there is impractical and unsustainable. What these very simple and basic habits do is give you a jump-off point to build a more intricate health and nutrition plan.

You also have on your Bridge app with a Habit Tracker under forms. The idea is to make it a habit by doing repetitive things till they become second nature. Training 3x a week, adding a day based on your goal of Hypertrophy, Conditioning, or Stretch, Sleeping 8 hours, Drinking ½ BW in oz of water, Eating 8 servings of Veggies, and removal of distractions while eating is how to maximize Allegiate to whatever goal you may have. Automatic habits are how we got those things done.

If you want more help with nutrition, we offer The Allegiate Nutrition Blueprint which is the roadmap to whatever goal you may have. But before that or buying any supplements, commit to making habits stick. 12 months a year you should adhere to these habits. Certain months where you are clear of schedule and distraction or have something you want to look amazing for, increase the threshold. Just like we need to increase the intensity in the weight room, we need to increase the intensity of what we are doing nutritionally. 

A couple of times a year commit to managing calories you eat, macronutrients you eat, specific supplements you take, staying locked in for the entire period of time to reach your goal. Understand that motivation is finite, how you feel when you start a plan is not how you will feel when you are going through the plan. That is ok, revert back to your habits when you are starting or struggling. Motivation will come back, but habits should stay the same.