A Sports Dietitian's Guide to Fuelling Your Workouts: What Most Women Get Wrong and How to Fix It (with Claire Bates)

About this episode

Claire Bates discusses how women can better fuel their workouts and avoid common dietary mistakes.

Sports dietitian Claire Bates joins Leanne to break down exactly how women should be fuelling different types of exercise, from fasted walking and short runs to HIIT, strength training, and endurance events, including why underfuelling is quietly sabotaging results for so many women who think they are doing everything right, the truth about carbs and protein timing, how to fuel for body composition goals without losing muscle, and the red flags that signal your body is running on empty. Practical, evidence-based, and genuinely useful for any woman who exercises regularly.

People in this episode

Host: Leanne Ward

Guest: Claire Bates

Topics covered

• sports nutrition
• women's health
• exercise fueling
• body composition
• dietary advice

Keywords

• sports dietitian
• fuelling workouts
• underfuelling
• carbs timing
• protein timing
• exercise types
• body composition
• muscle loss

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