Are You A Weekend Warrior?
Are you stuck behind a desk, working long hours Monday to Friday, but then hitting it hard on the weekends? Weekend Warriors are people who do recreational activities such as running, cycling, skiing, snowboarding, or mountain biking, solely on the weekends since they work in a “real” job through the week and may not have time or access to their activities of choice Monday to Friday. Being a Weekend Warrior is a great way to keep life interesting and keep active, but it can be hard to juggle a full-time job and your sporting pursuits. So how can you get the most out of your body to ensure you are in your best form on the weekends, without affecting your performance Monday to Friday?
Train and eat like a champion!
The most important things you need to do as a successful Weekend Warrior is to keep yourself fit and eat well throughout your working week. Even short training sessions can help keep your muscles toned and your fitness levels up, so try to fit in at least two training session throughout your working week. Also, make sure you eat like an athlete throughout the week – don’t indulge in too much caffeine or alcohol, even if the job is stressing you out, as it will affect your performance on Saturday and Sunday! Eat a balanced diet high in fruit and vegetables, and include nuts and seeds and healthy oils in your diet. It’s important to consume protein-rich foods with each meal and drink a minimum of eight glasses of water every day. The other important thing a successful Weekend Warrior needs to keep their energy levels up is a good multivitamin and some coenzyme Q10.
A multivitamin a day can help keep fatigue at bay…
What you experience as energy, whether mental or physical, is the end result of food being broken down into its components parts. Involved in the process of turning food into energy are the majority of essential vitamins and minerals, so if you need more energy, a multivitamin can help! Ethical Nutrients Super Multi Plus is a high-strength multivitamin and mineral formulation that helps maintain health and wellbeing, especially when you are busy or under stress. In addition to containing optimal levels of nutrients, it includes herbs such as Siberian ginseng. Siberian ginseng has a long history of use as an energy booster and herbal support for athletes. In order to maintain energy levels, take Ethical Nutrients Super Multi Plus every day.
Weekend Warriors need extra help keeping energy levels up
As a part-time athlete, full-time worker, you will need to take coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) as well as your daily multivitamin. CoQ10 is a nutrient that has been shown to increase oxygen uptake and physical performance during high intensity endurance exercise. CoQ10 is a nutrient that is vital to energy metabolism. It is an essential component of the energy production chain that occurs within every single cell. Supplementation with CoQ10 has been shown to increase energy in endurance exercise. Endura CoQ10 150 mg is a good way to support energy production and give you that extra boost to help you out-perform your rivals on the weekend.
What about on weekends?
So one Ethical Nutrients Super Multi Plus tablet and one Endura CoQ10 150 mg capsule every day will keep you going Monday to Friday, but what can you do on Saturday and Sunday to optimise your performance? There are two key Endura supplements we recommend for Weekend Warriors to take for their intense weekend training/racing: Endura Rehydration Formula and Endura Optimizer.
Endura Rehydration Formula
Dehydration will lead to fatigue, so make sure you consume enough fluids over the weekend. Just drinking water is often not enough. Although drinking plain water helps to replace lost fluid, it is not the best solution for rehydration – you need to replace your electrolytes as well. Lack of electrolytes like sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium and chloride in the proper ratios will contribute to muscle dehydration. Dehydration will cause a build-up of lactic acid in muscles and will cause muscles to become fatigued and damaged, impairing your performance and recovery. Fortunately, there is something you can do to keep your muscles well hydrated: drink Endura Rehydration Formula during training or competition.
Why Endura?
Drinking Endura Rehydration Formula helps to maintain the balance of water and electrolytes in your muscles, thereby promoting better rehydration and supporting optimal performance. Endura Rehydration Formula is a balanced formula of electrolytes including magnesium, potassium, calcium and sodium. Unfortunately many sports drinks provide a high sodium content with little or none of the important electrolytes; making them nothing more than sweetened saltwater. These sports drinks may rehydrate your blood, but what about your muscles? For maximum muscle hydration and recovery, use Endura Rehydration Formula every time you train and compete.
Endura Optimizer
You should also be taking Endura Optimizer on the weekends. Endura Optimizer, taken just before training, will give your body a quick boost of much needed carbohydrates to maintain stamina and heighten performance. Taken after exercise, Endura Optimizer will help restore your glycogen levels and improve recovery of muscle tissue, so that you can push yourself that extra mile in your next training session. Endura Optimizer is scientifically formulated with specific forms of carbohydrate, protein and other nutrients that are easily digested. This means that it can help to replace energy without placing extra demands on the gastrointestinal system. The type of protein in Endura Optimizer is hydrolysed lactalbumin, which is a protein that is much easier to digest so your body can use it better than regular whey protein. In fact, your body can completely absorb these peptides within 30 to 60 minutes! Just one serve of Endura Optimizer provides 60 g of rapidly absorbed, high energy carbohydrates. This means it should keep you going at your peak for longer!
The bottom line…
The bottom line is simple: if you’re a Weekend Warrior, you need to support your body so it gives you what you need for those big weekend training sessions or races. Remember to:
- Do at least two training sessions during the week.
- Limit your caffeine and alcohol intake.
- Eat a balanced diet high in fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds and healthy protein-rich foods.
- Drink a minimum of eight glasses of water every day.
- Take one Ethical Nutrients Super Multi Plus tablet and one Endura CoQ10 150 mg capsule every day.
- Use Endura Rehydration Formula and Endura Optimizer on weekends to enhance recovery and help you work harder.
