EAST PREPS

Sports nutrition expert Bob Seebohar, highlights the importance of oatmeal in high school and college athletes diets. ?This morning we are making super oatmeal which I highly recommend for all of our athletes here at the Olympic training center in addition to outside athletes. Easy, fast, easily transportable and its cheap, as you can see these ingredients are normal ingredients, there?s nothing special about them, oats, whey protein powder and dark cocoa, ground flax, blue berries, raisins and/or banana here and there. Very cheap, very economical and you can find all these things in a normal grocery store. And what we usually like to do is make it quick, simple, and easy. And what you see here is that we?re just using a rice cooker, what we call hot pot. It has a hot plate in the middle of it and it is connected to a cord so all we is a plug, essentially, to plug it in. I?ve turned it on, I?ve heated up a little bit. You can see our ingredients that we?re gonna be working with. The first thing I?m gonna do is take some water, can certainly use milk, too, as your base, pour it in the hot pot and we?re just gonna let it boil ? come to a boil which will take about 30 to 60 seconds. Very quick, very easy, so the water is coming to a boil now. Very quick, very easy and again you can use milk, soya milk, regular milk if you want, too, just use it for some extra protein. So, the first thing I?m gonna do is take my role dotes and/or the instant milk pocket and take my spoon. So, we?re gonna pull the role dotes right into the boiling water. The next thing I?m gonna add while this is cooking is my wheat protein powder, pour that in. Then the next thing I?m gonna add is just a little scoop of baking cocoa, dark chocolate baking cocoa, this specifically for the anti-oxidant. So, a lot of people think chocolated ? it?s a comfort food, its emotional food. I use it for anti-oxidant and athletes need quite a few any accents to support their exercise and training routine. So, we?ll pour a little bit of spoonful of that in, give that a little bit of stir. And then the next ingredient, I?m gonna put my frozen or my ground flax in, omega three, fats are included in this and these athletes need quite a bit no matter the age or the ability for athletes because omega three fats will actually help the liver more than the nutrients that were given the body carbohydrate, protein, and fat to their muscles. So, it reduces inflammation and it helps on blood flow to and from the muscles. The next thing I?m gonna add are my frozen blue berries, parsley thud, you can use fresh blue berries, you can use frozen blue berries, really doesn?t make a difference, you can use strawberries, black berries, anything that you want. The rule that I give is the more colorful, the better, the more colorful, the darker a fruit, the more anti-oxidant that we have in it. So, again, I?ll just stir that around and then last but not the least, for a little bit more carbohydrate, little bit more energy, sustainability throughout the day. I?m gonna open just a little travel pocket of raisins and this will add a few more carbohydrates, few more anti-oxidant, good vitamins and minerals. So, we?ll just open this up and for those of you who like a wonderful breakfast, super oatmeal, protein packed, high carbohydrate, high anti-oxidant, rich breakfast that is it. So, as you can see, this is a quick and easy breakfast and as you can tell, we don?t need a kitchen to make this. A lot of times, all we do is send athletes on the road traveling, competitions or training program or training locations with a little hot pot. And as you can see, the ingredients are very noble and in fact most of the time, I will combine all the dry ingredients in one baggy and then the wet ingredient, meaning the blue berries or you can even add a banana instead of the blue berries. You can travel with these in a bag pack, you can put on the hot pot, put in a suit case. Very simple, all you need is a source of power and you can make a breakfast from the time you pour all the ingredients in and boil the water no longer than three minutes from start to finish with this breakfast. Ideally, you would eat this about an hour to before training session or competition. You can also use this as the post competition meal within that first fifteen to sixteen minutes. This will serve the same needs as the pre, as it does post competition or training.?