Tyler Duncan Racing

A cooking class is off to a god start when it begins with a walk though the gardens to harvest the ingredients for the evening.

Thats exactly how an evening of performance nutrition and tasty meal ideas began for me last night when I had the opportunity to attend the trial run of a nutrition and cooking class being put together by Noa Deutsch (PT Performance Training) and Hayley Resenberg (Nourish Garden Bistro).

Noa and Hayley share a love for good quality ingredients and a belief that proper nutrition and a balanced approach can lead to a healthier life and better performance. They have taken this philosophy (also called a fact) and designed a class to teach even the most useless athletes (ie. ME) how to take better care of themselves and get their food working for them.

These two women both have a unique and complementary set of skills that lead to a very informative evening!

Noa, a sports nutritionist currently working on her first cookbook Fueling Endurance Performance, has condensed her vast (and sometimes a little scary) store of nutritional knowledge into an easy tounderstand presentation. In one short evening she clears up many of the most common problems faced by athletes of any discipline. How much should I eat? What should I eat? Carb? Protein? Fat? Noa provides a simple to understand set of guidelines that will help any athlete make the most out of their time in the kitchen!

In two short years in Victoria Hayley has made quite the splash in the foodie community.

After Nourish opened last year it quickly joined the ranks of the top spots in Vic for a healthy, local, fresh, and most defiantly TASTY meal. Bringing a whole new level to eating local with most of her greens and herbs coming right from the gardens out the back door, Hayley’s passion for what she is doing comes across in the first five seconds of talking to her. With a few simple ingredients and some very innovative preparations (seriously take the class just for the cool prep ideas!) she shows us how preparing tasty dishes can be fast and easy.

Overall the course is a fantastic way to get good information on nutrition and help short though all the fad diets and health trends that will crash your computer if you make the mistake of goggling. Thinking of going Raw? Vegan? Gluten free? Dairy free? or even if you heard it would be a great idea to survive purely off bananas and beet juice. Noa and Hayley are happy to answer any questions you have and will provide a great meal to boot. If you are an athlete no matter what your disipline you would be well served to check out this class!

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