Why? First of all it gets a tick in all of the nutritional boxes. Protein – Tick. Vegetables – Tick. Good Fats – Tick.
It’s dead easy to make, stores well (make it the night before) and will help you lose inches off your waist (unlike many other quick and easy lunches)
And because I have to eat it, there is a massive tick next to TASTE. That’s right, even healthy food should taste great.
The Super Ultimate Tuna Salad Lunch – Makes one large or two small serves.
160gms tuna shredded
Seasoning (salt/pepper/other mixed seasonings)
2 tsp mayo (the real, full egg stuff unless allergic)
3 Tbsp avocado (mashed)
1.5 Tbsp shredded parmesan
1 cup cucumber
1/3 cup red onion
1/3 cup chopped tomato
Throw tuna, seasoning, mayo, parmesan and avocado into a large bowl. Mix all together. Add remaining ingredients and mix lightly. Accompany with a green tea of your choice.
Afterwards, you might want to give the teeth a brush, or grab some sugar free gum. Tuna and onion, great for your body and health, not so great for the breath!!
Feel free to mix and match some of your favourite vegetables in there or let us know what special seasoning mix you are using.
Whilst the workout is the focus of a lot of our thoughts, we need to make sure that the warm up isn’t over looked.
Gone are the days of running a few laps and then doing some static stretches for the quads, hamstrings and calves. Instead you want to do something a bit more dynamic which will really get your body primed for your workout.
The focus of the warm up is to get the body ready for action. You want to get the heart rate up and increase your body temperature so that when you start your workout your muscles and central nervous system are alive and kicking.
You should be getting your breathing rate up as well during the warm up. If you sweat easily you might find that you start to perspire a bit during this time. Great! Just don’t turn the warm up into the workout.
Have a look at the video below for my complete lower body warm up which is perfect for any running, sprinting, interval or lower body workout. Tweak it a bit if you like, after a few trial and error runs, you will find what works best for you.
Last week I went crazy with my Beef Chili and made it three times.
Why?
Well it is that tasty and so easy to make (not to mention good for you) that I became addicted to it!
The other good thing with this recipe is that you can substitiue the veges or spices to make it your own signature dish.
Watch the videos, (they are about 6 minutes each) to see just how easy it really is. Make sure you watch to the end to see what my secret cooking weapon is!!
Part One
Part Two
Leave some comments below if you have any ideas or feedback.
I can’t believe it. In fact I was so shocked that I had to tell you about itimmediately.
I was at the supermarket yesterday picking up a few essentials and remembered that I was out of sultanas. Sultanas pack a pretty big carb punch and are perfect for after an intense workout.
Normally I would try to get the organic ones, but being in a large, multi national, profit first supermarket they don’t seem to have quality high on the agenda. The next best option was the ‘natural’ sultanas which are what you would think they were, sultanas.
Being a bargain hunter, I needed to know that I was getting the best deal. So I headed over to the ‘cooking’ aisle and had a look at the other sultana options. To my suprise there were some other ‘natural’ sultanas there and one packet claimed that there was ‘No Added Vegtable Oil’ and 99% fat free. More marketing hype I thought to myself, why would there be vegetable oil in sultanas, and why wouldn’t a fruit be fat free?
Then I had a look a the other product the same company had on the shelf and checked the ingredients. This is what shocked me. The ingredients were sultanas and vegetable oil. Vegetable oils aren’t that great at the best of times, being a product of over processing and I can only assume that the manufacturer was using the cheapest, nastiest vegetable oil to get the job done.
Now apparently this process is to help stop the sultanas sticking together. Apparently this must be a big problem. Why else would you take a perfectly good food and taint it with unnecessary, poor quality processed oil? Not good enough.
So what is the take home story from my little rant? There’s a few things.
1. Read food labels.
2. Don’t take anything for granted – assume nothing
3. Don’t be fooled into thinking that big business puts your health before profits.
