In preparation to ride the Whitney Classic with my brother-in-law, I read up a fair bit on nutrition for endurance sports.Here’s a basic article about endurance nutrition from Hammer Nutrition, perhaps the best in the business for ultrarunning, cycling and triathlon stuff.
My executive summary of what I feel are the more important points:
1. fluid...
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Gatorade is not a “health drink”
In recent years, sports drinks have scored a major coup in terms of marketing and perception among the general public. Sports drinks like Gatorade and Powerade are designed as specialized beverages for athletes to refuel, rehydrate, and replenish electrolytes, during or directly preceding/following athletic activity.
But from a marketing angle, athletes are a small group,...
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General Diet and Nutrition Guidelines
Our basic dietary philosophy can be summarized as the following rules:
Eat “whole” foods as the primary source of impact. Whole grains, fresh meats, fresh fish, legumes, nuts, eggs, etc.
Eat plenty of protein with every meal; it helps keep you sated, provides necessary fuel for muscle maintenance, and aid in fat loss (due to...
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Eating Fat Is Good for You
This is a post to centralize important links on dietary fat and its important role in nutrition.
Fats are Good
One of the most harmful dietary myths that has been entrenched popular thinking for many years is that dietary fat is bad. That paradigm is cracking, with much research over the last 15 years showing the...
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