A very noticeable lack of cake and biscuits accompanied our coffee as we all settled down for the 2nd of the Barry Murray – optimum nutrition 4 sport lecture, this weeks talk being on weight management. Apparently Cycle Shack’s local Spar didn’t stock the ‘healthy’ biscuits Barry suggested!
Barry was again an excellent speaker and we all enjoyed his rants against processed, low fat, low GI, diet and light branded foods. His advice about eating stuff as it comes out of the fields or the sea in as natural a form as possible should be a goal for everyone, not just athletes, and he gave loads of great well explained strategies for losing weight and keeping it off.
I am, though, convinced he is a mind reader. Rushing out the door before the lecture I ended up having the same meal as my 7 year old: a dinner of fish fingers, pasta, peas and sweetcorn, doesn’t seem too bad really, but his comment of ‘do fish fingers swim in the sea?’ made me feel very guilty, and I am sure he somehow knew my secret!
This weeks Cycle Shack lecture was packed out, with local Raleigh Pro rider, Dan Fleeman, in attendance and being forced to stand at the back. The next one on the 9th February is all about recovery.
Oh, the picture above. The most frightening part is the fat surrounding the internal organs!