Tactical Athlete Nutrition +Performance

Mahalo Sofia for the shout out! SO proud of you for your hard work, dedication and performance!! Keep reaching high and crushing it!

Sofia Gamboa It doesn’t take long to see the passion that Sofia Gamboa has for surfing. During our photo shoot, the conversation quickly went to where she normally parks at Trespass in Deerfield Beach to surf, and how it just doesn’t break like it used to.

Hanging at the CrossFit Fairground Throwdown today! Body comp for the athletes, nutrition education and more!

Congrats to one of our hardest working athletes and team rider .g_surfer in her spot on the USA Jr National Surf team! Couldn’t be more proud of all the hard work Sofia puts in each day!! Its been an honor to work w her the last couple years! Keep it up Sofia! 💥 👊🏾

Do it for the breakkyyy! Fuel ⬆️

Very honored to have been inducted onto the Advisory Board of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. This organization continues to "bring it" in the world of exercise science and sports nutrition research and practice, and it is truly an honor to sit amongst the top leaders in the field.

It’s that time of the year where things are COLD and training is tough, but truly the most important part of the year for your upcoming SUP season.

NOW is the time to focus on all your goals for the year and truly start working on them.

Nutritionally, introducing new practices and reaching those body composition goals starts now. Its never a great idea to try to do this in the middle of your season.

Additionally, weight training and building a solid strength foundation to support your upcoming year is very important. Once again, start of season and mid-season we want to have a nice solid base to work off of.

And of course, keeping that cardio up to shape when its hard to get on the water. There are ways to continue to build and support your aerobic system so when its time to get back on the water, you are not gasping for air.

Don’t wait till the snow melts and the season starts to build your solid foundation. Lets start working on it now 🙂

PM with any questions on your season goals and what might be best for you! Come train with us for 2022!

Happy New Year!!
With the New Year I’m sure brings some new fitness/training goals!! So I wanted to share this little RPE chart to help you all with those goals.

I know most of us have fitness tracker watches these days (which are most accurate w a chest strap, btw), but this chart is something that helps push a little more (esp on those ‘lazy feeling days’)…

For those of you who work with us as coaches, we set your HR zones, but what is that effort you are experiencing in those zones? Not everyone has the same typical HR max ‘range’, so this chart is a good supplemental tool to use to make sure you are getting the most out of your workouts!

This chart is called a Rate of Perceived Exertion chart (RPE). Its subjective, ie how hard you FEEL your body is working during these workouts. As a coach, this lets me know loads of info when I start correlating what YOU are telling me with what your WATCH data is telling me.

So hopefully you can glance over this, and put it to some use this year within your training :)

Have a great 2022!! Looking forward to working with YOU!

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Why is post workout nutrition key?

Consuming a mix of carbs and protein is essential to muscle recovery post workout. Your body uses carbs as its main source of fuel for workouts (as we talked about last post), so its important to replenish once finished to help facilitate in muscle recovery! Getting in that protein ensures you are giving your body the amino acids it needs to rebuild muscles.

Better recovery = better workout day after day.
Better workout day after day = paving the way to your awesome results!

Happy Thanksgiving from Tactical Athlete Nutrition +Performance! Super thankful to be able to work with so many amazing people this last year!

Hard work and trusting the process pays off!! Super proud of .g_surfer for her WIN at the National championships in U12!! She had a goal in sight and crushed it! Congrats champ!!!!!!! Yewwwww

The firefighter combat challenge world championships right in our backyard! Looking forward to seeing these athletes compete!

Repost from Society for NeuroSports. Go get ya some ☀️

Hi all! We will be doing a little QA/education follow up a couple times a month right here :) So comment below to join in!

Coach Victoria here! As we are winding down the season, we are going to focus on the importance of the off season, and how zoning in your nutrition and programming can benefit you for 2022! This will be a bi-weekly interactive post where we do a QA/Poll on a topic and then the following week I will provide some education behind that specific topic (in nutrition and performance)


For this week we will start off w a very common discussion of pre-workout fueling...
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Super proud of Tactical Athlete Nutrition athlete Jake Portwood , for his strong second place finish at the Key West paddle classic, finishing less than a minute behind 1st! Hard work paying off! Great job Jake!

Excited to announce a great partnership with SoFlo Physical Therapy & Sports Rehab.
We will be bringing our nutrition services into their practice to help their clients along with their rehab & more! Looking forward to working with such an awesome group of people and a top notch facility!

https://www.soflopt.com/2021/09/30/welcoming-our-new-partnership-with-sports-nutritionist-victoria-burgess/

Welcoming our new partnership with Sports Nutritionist, Victoria Burgess – Fort Lauderdale, FL: Physical Therapy & Sport Medicine September 30, 2021October 4, 2021 southfloridaphiy Nutrition is a critical aspect of health that is often overlooked when recovering from injury or surgery. To provide our patients the optimal rehabilitation experience, we are excited to partner with Victoria Burgess, Certified Sports Nutritionist a...

Congrats to One of our team athletes .g_surfer for her amazing win at the ESA Eastern championships in the U12 She completely killed it in the finals and we are so proud. She has been working hard on and off the water and we are stoked to be a part of her journey! Keep it up Sofia!

A fun presentation I did for Concordia University a couple months ago, on "Body Recomposition Through Base Training and Nutrition"

A little nutrition chat, a little base testing chat and even some motivational factors that come into play as athletes return after Covid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk7Q3wZCpeI

"Body Recomposition Through Base Training and Nutrition" with Victoria Burgess, PhD, CISSN In this webinar, Victoria Burgess, PhD, CISSN, helps coaches, trainers and athletes like you understand how to use base performance and body composition test...

Client Spotlight!!

Super proud of one of my clients who has been crushing her goals! We have been working together a little over two months, writing her training/nutrition programming and a couple sessions in person (when she’s in town!).

Love running body comp while working with clients so they can see what is actually happening from their hard work!

Over the last 2 months she has lost 8 lbs of Fat Mass total!!! And gained over 3lbs of skeletal muscle!!

Super proud of her for pushing so hard (and all while on the road as a pilot!!)

Onto another week of learning what overtraining can cause…and yes. There’s more…

Overtraining can also affect your mood. 😞😖😤😡😥🤯😑🙃 has been shown to cause loss of motivation, drive, enthusiasm, increased irritability, depression and more. 👎🏽

Fatigue isn’t the only thing created from over training….

Returning to normalcy and summer time training can equal to training too much! Over training? What is it and how can you notice the symptoms? The next several posts will show you some things affected by overtraining and why you should avoid it at all costs, even when tempted to “push through”…

Proud to title sponsor the this year! Love seeing these athletes charge!

It’s been an honor to train for her quest This weekend! Go. Imua Layla! Have fun!!

https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/athletes/special-olympics-athlete-aims-to-make-history-crossing-ocean-from-the-bahamas-to-florida?fbclid=IwAR0PuhHMZc6yjoZanLYWBXQemAdvS1gj0GzBo4s9wmhFjIhb2TVhfzWVZck

Special Olympics Athlete Aims to Make History Crossing Ocean from the Bahamas to Florida Under the blistering Florida summer sun, 16-year-old Layla Crehan has been paddling for many hours. But the Special Olympics Florida athlete is exactly where she wants to be: out on the water on her stand up paddleboard. Her stand up paddleboard journey started just a few years ago, without Crehan.....

Taurine is a popular ergogenic aid to widely used for performance. But does it work? This article reviewed 19 studies that investigated taurine. It was found that it does appear effective at specific doses and might improve aerobic, anaerobic performance, recovery and also decrease metabolic markers.

Sports science & nutrition research + amazing people 🧠 💪🏽 + lots of ☕️ = why go anywhere else?
A great time at the International Society of Sports Nutrition annual conference in St Pete with the best of the best.

Sleep. Is. Good. Go to sleep! Thanks for the great graphic Society for NeuroSports