Running and eating: Alisher Yakupov on the paleo diet

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Among amateur runners, marathoners, ultra-marathoners and triathletes, there are a lot of vegetarians and a little less vegans (we will put, perhaps, in the same category of fructorians and raw-foodists), but we have not yet met so many people who are fond of meat and protein diets. … We decided not only to collect useful data on diet and nutrition in general, but also to give examples of stories of real-life runners who eat a certain way.

And Alisher Yakupov, a runner who is carried away by the paleo diet, opens our column. Alisher does not just run - he chose CrossFit for interval and strength training, so the choice of such a diet has a certain basis.

First, a little help:

What have you chosen for yourself as snacks during long races (if there are any, of course). And what do you prefer to recuperate after training?

- I look in the direction of dates and bananas. I want to try making my own nuts and dried fruit bars like Bite and Clifbar.

And, most importantly, do you feel a change for the better in your well-being? Does this diet affect your athletic performance?

- In order to exclude self-hypnosis (and this sometimes happens to me) and to be at least a little objective, when switching to paleo, I gathered a group of paleonauts-experimenters, and we hacked to death for a month. With feedback from participants, you can. The body is first surprised at the cessation of the flow of useless calories and sugar, and then begins to rebuild and invigorate.

What I noticed in myself after a month: a decrease in the percentage of subcutaneous fat, growth of muscle tissue, an increase in taste and smell, an improvement in mood and energy.

In general, I am not a professional athlete, and I do not have a goal to improve my performance every month. I run as I ran, but I don't eat cakes.:) I think the benefits should be considered in a more distant perspective.