Female Specific Nutrition * Simon Ward and Dina Griffin

2020-12-02

Boulder isn’t just a great place for triathletes to hang out. These days it seems like a large number of my guests also hang out there including today’s guest, Dina Griffin. Dina is a sports dietician who not only addresses needs related to disease and illness but also takes a proactive approach in optimizing health to prevent disease, deficiencies, and breakdowns via personalized sports nutrition coaching, consulting, and physiology testing. I have specifically invited her onto the show to chat about nutri...

Boulder isn’t just a great place for triathletes to hang out. These days it seems like a large number of my guests also hang out there including today’s guest, Dina Griffin.

Dina is a sports dietician who not only addresses needs related to disease and illness but also takes a proactive approach in optimizing health to prevent disease, deficiencies, and breakdowns via personalized sports nutrition coaching, consulting, and physiology testing. I have specifically invited her onto the show to chat about nutrition for female athletes.

I first met Dina, virtually of course, when she presented this topic to a group of TrainingPeaks coaches a few weeks back and I thought, why have we never had a guest on to speak about this? So here she is and it’s another great conversation as we discuss:

Why nutrition education is an important first step to improving your health and performance
Key differences to female physiology in Pre, peri, and post menopause
The differences in nutritional approach during each phase
How and what to adjust in your nutrition programme during the low and high hormone phases of your monthly cycle
Some training alterations you might want to consider during the same phase
Benefits of protein and why you should probably eat more
Lift Heavy Stuff regardless of your age (TIP: The third time this topic has come up. If you haven’t got the message yet….)
Gut health and why focussing on this in your 30’s will help during peri-menopause
Supplements - should you take them and if so which ones

To find out more about Dina Griffin, please visit her website https://nutritionmechanic.com/

You can also find Dina on:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nutritionmechanic/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dina.howtongriffin

We covered several other subjects during the show and here are some of the links:

Recent podcast on Gut Health with Bella Lindeman

FitRWoman app - track your period and train smarter

WildAI - turn your menstrual cycle into an advantage

Feed Zone Portables A cookbook of on the go food for athletes

Feed Zone Cook Book Fast & favourable food for athletes

To find out more about Simon’s SWAT programme, please click HERE

Visit Simon's website for more information about his coaching programmes