Volleyball Nutrition and the Club Pack

Today for my volleyball nutrition review, I look at the “Club Pack” of health products. Hi, my name is Russ Marchewka and I am the health and wellness guy in the volleyball community. I have spent the last 8 years learning about better health and nutrition, how to increase my endurance, strength and recovery time with all natural foods. As a result of my research, I decided to switch to a vegan diet. I supplement with fish oil to get crucial Omega 3 fats so I refer to myself as a “mostly vegan.” After 2 years of competing on the pro beach volleyball tours as a vegan, I’ve been able to refine my diet and supplement routine to increase my endurance, my strength and my recovery time. I love sharing my successes with others so they might be healthier and more successful as a result.

Volleyball Nutrition, the most important nutrients

This pack is very simple. Instead of giving you a broad spectrum of nutrients, it gives you a larger supply of the most important ones. It’s a simple philosophy executed with economies of scale. In other words, get more of the most important nutrients and pay less for it.

In my experience over the better part of the last decade, there are a few nutrients that generally have the greatest effect on those who have been deficient in them. These nutrients are Omega 3 fatty acids, diverse phyto-chemicals and a multi-vitamin/multi-mineral. In the case of the club pack, these come in the form of fish oil, super greens and the Oxylent multi-vitamin. In this pack you’ll get a 3 month supply of Green Vibrance super greens, Growing Naturals protein, Nordic Naturals fish oil, and Oxylent multi-vitamin.

Volleyball Nutrition, why these nutrients can change your life

Top 3 reasons to The Club Pack is for you

• provides the essential nutrients for better health
• adding these nutrients to your diet will improve your volleyball game
• in the long term, this will save you more money

Volleyball Nutrition, a full spectrum of complete nutrition

The 5th highest cause of death in the United States is Omega 3 deficiency. Omega 3 fatty acids come in many forms. ALA, EPA and DHA are the 3 most important to us. ALA is found in high quantity in plants. Animals eat the plants, and then internally convert it into EPA and DHA. Those are the two that we are most deficient in. ALA is an issue, but the real issue is EPA and DHA because the amount of ALA that we convert to EPA and DHA is very small.

Therefore supplementing with EPA and DHA are critical to our health. Not only our health benefits by getting sick less often, not being as susceptible to disease, but we also heal from injuries much quicker and have more lubricated joints. That’s why I recommend the Nordic Naturals brand because they use the best fish oil and give you the most EPA and DHA for your money.

Speaking of best for your money, that’s how I feel about the Oxylent too. It’s a high quality multi-vitamin but so much more. Yes, it has a broad spectrum of vitamins that are important, but it also has a very good supply of many key minerals to our health. Minerals, in my research, I have found to be much more important to our health than vitamins. We’ve been told all our lives to “get your vitamins” but honestly, there are over 80 minerals and each one plays an important role inside our body. In any one day, our body is performing 50,000+ complex operations inside, all of which require specific minerals for each one. If we are lacking a certain mineral, guess what? That task does not get completed.

No wonder we get sick and have more disease than ever before. But wait, not all minerals are created equal. They come in different forms, and some of those forms, our body has a very hard time to convert them for our internal use. Oxylent, in addition to providing us valuable nutrients and vitamins, has the highest quality minerals that are absorbed almost completely. So we get our money’s worth for sure, but more importantly our health is improved in the process.

Phyto-chemicals are these curious little particles in plants. Interestingly enough, they are probably the most important things to our health. An estimated 10,000 have already been discovered with another estimated 10,000-20,000 not yet figured out. Crazy huh? I’ll give you an example, lutein. This phyto-chemical is found in abundance in the skin of tomatoes. Lutein has been linked to eye health because of lutein concentrations that end up around the eye area.

Here is where the supplement world gets it wrong. They hear that, and then go out and isolate lutein and put it in a bunch of multi-vitamins. But it doesn’t have the same effect. Why? Because a tomato has hundreds of other phyto-chemicals, minerals and vitamins that go with that lutein to make it work in the human body. This is why “whole-food” nutrition is so important. Super Greens, specifically Vibrant Health’s Green Vibrance are so amazing for our health because they combine 60+ wild herbs, grasses, fruits and vegetables together into one scoop of power-packed nutrition. We get all the vitamin and minerals that the plants have to offer, but more importantly we get all their phyto-chemicals! I can’t tell you for sure which phyto-chemicals will improve your health and how, but I can promise you, your body will thank you for it!

Volleyball Nutrition, Improving your volleyball game with nutrients

Fish oil will help lower your blood pressure which is important for intense competition like volleyball. Your blood pressure rises naturally during intense exercise, so the lower it is naturally, the better it is for you. Also, EPA and DHA are important for their anti-inflammatory effects, joint lubricating effects and new cell building effects. This will help prevent injuries and shorten the recovery time if you get one.

Oxylent is an effective sports drink substitute. Providing much more than 2-4 minerals, Oxylent in water will give you a full spectrum of electrolytes, vitamins, amino acids and enzymes to help circulate and oxygenate your blood better.

Super greens will help with your overall health and energy levels. You best decide what that can mean for your volleyball game. The Growing Naturals protein is included because when mixed with almond/coconut/rice milk and the super greens you have a complete meal all in one easy to drink, easy to assimilate shake. Plus, as an athlete, having a superior protein that breaks down effortlessly, absorbs quickly and sustainably is critical.

Volleyball Nutrition, your long term health

If you value your long term health as much as I do, then you don’t need to be convinced how important these nutrients are for you, you just needed to be educated a little further. Incorporating the products and brands in this package into your daily life will keep you out of the doctor’s office, lessen your chance for disease, keep you training hard and performing at a high level. All those things together will save you more money and earn you more money in the long run than anything else. Good luck!

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