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As you sit outside in the early morning, getting your daily dose of natural vitamin D from the sun, while sipping your perfectly blended green monster and planning your protein packed lunch salad, you might be pondering why you’d ever bother with running supplements.
Do runners need supplements?
No. Yes. Maybe.
Can we eat a well-balanced diet, meditate, sleep and probably be just fine without them, yes.
Are we likely doing all of those things every day to offset the stress that exercise creates within the body, no.
So is it worth adding them in, maybe.
Because I tend to eat massive amounts of veggies, I often get a few eyebrow raises when I explain I also still use running supplements.
If you’ve been wary or simply don’t understand why, I hope you’ll give this a read. I’ll talk about why I use them, which one’s are most beneficial and what to look for so it’s worth your hard earned cha-ching.
Why Use Running Supplements
As the name implies, supplements are just that, designed to supplement our healthy choices.
I’ve tinkered off and on over the years with a variety of things to see what actually works and what was worthy my time, but I haven’t talked…
