As an endurance athlete entering your peak season, it is likely that race days will involve some sort of traveling. However, travel isn’t an excuse to fall off of your nutrition and lose valuable opportunities for carb loading and other strategies that can boost your performance on race day.  Here are a few of my […]

Time to spring clean your pantry and get it ready for your endurance training and race season with these tips! Meeting your performance nutrition goals as an athlete is more difficult if you don’t have the right foods on-hand, ready to go. Spring brings along the perfect opportunity to go through your pantry, organize your […]

Menopause is a natural and normal part of life that all women, including female endurance athletes, will have to go through.  It’s a stage of life that’s accompanied by hormonal and body changes that may alter training and nutrition routines. But this doesn’t mean you can’t implement strategies that will help you perform to the […]

Meal planning as an endurance athlete is not always easy, especially when you’re busy and constantly on the go. To help with this I’ve got four meal planning tips for athletes looking to start a meal planning routine or add to their current one. Make it once and eat it twice (at least) A meal […]

I had shared a post to Instagram and in the caption asked people to share a food that they can’t live without. And, I shared that for myself, it’s pancakes. I freaking love pancakes! Well then some troll came into the comments and left a message that made me snap. “Just contemplating why promoting eating […]

Has this been you? Were you training more than ever and gradually putting on weight? You’re not alone, it happens. I’ve talked with athletes who experiences 15-20 lbs in weight gain while training for big events. How is this possible? Let’s dive in and talk about why this can happen. Diet Mentality Losing weight is […]

My husband and two little boys aren’t super great about vegetables. Carrots, sure. Cucumbers, sure. And we love spaghetti here in the Larson house. So I was inspired by Jamie Oliver’s 7-veg tomato sauce, and put my own spin on it and made it more “busy-parent friendly”. The biggest battle is prepping the veggies for […]

Are you afraid if you eat more you’ll gain weight? You don’t need to be. I started working with a male ultra-distance trail runner in his late 40’s in early 2021. This awesome dude does year-round high-volume training. You’d think that he’d have no trouble keeping weight off. But alas, over the past two years […]

When someone tells me that they want to lose weight, what they really mean is, they want to lose body fat. They want to see that body fat percentage drop. However, in many cases when losing weight, a good portion of that weight is muscle loss. And the body fat percentage ends up increasing instead. […]

The Larson household loves these! Including my semi-picky husband (he’s come a long way with food since we’ve met). Yields: About 20-24 bites Ingredients: 1 cup rolled or quick oats ½ cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips ½ cup ground flaxseed ½ cup nut butter ⅓ cup honey 1 teaspoon vanilla extract  1/4 cup chopped dried […]