Nutrition

Your nutrition is the defining factor in whether your fitness programme gives you the results you desire. The exercise you do merely creates the chemical and physiological stimulii for change. Providing the correct ingredients to supply the change is often the ‘make or break’ in any successful health and fitness regime.

Additionally, optimising nutrition has been scientifically proven to:

Improve mental alertness and concentration
Extend your healthy lifespan
Improve immunity (resistance to illness and infections)
Increase IQ
Improve mood
Improve quality of sleep
Increase physical performance (crucial in acheiving your fitness goals).

Optimising your nutrition (making it the best it can be) is more than just ‘you are what you eat’. It involves not only intake, but also what is absorbed and used by your body and the amount/ timings of your meals and snacks. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ of course, because everyone is biochemically unique. There are many principles that apply to us all as humans, for example, that we all need vitamins; however the actual amont we need for optimal health and nutrition varies from person to person. Paddy Warwick utilises current scientific knowledge and the principles of evolutionary dynamics to govern his nutritional advice and personalised diet plans.

Within your initial consultation, Paddy will help you evaluate your existing dietary and liefstyle habits. He will measure your body composition and through a detailed discussion, create a diet plan that will not only achieve your desired results but contain foods that you actually enjoy! The plan will contain exact amounts of macronutrients (fats - including the vital but misunderstood ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 fats, carbohydrates and proteins) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) tailored to you and your goal(s); whether it be fat loss, muscle gain, managing metabolic disorders or rebalancing hormones.

The popular 'fad' diets of our times (e.g. 'Atkins' and 'Zone') can be effective but rarely, if ever, initiate lasting change. Inevitable relapses to familiar eating routines soon overturn any short-term gains. Paddy's philosophy with regards to nutrition (and exercise) is to encourage and facilitate a life-time of change and long-lasting, autonomous health.