nutrition strategy and practise it in training. Drinking while running, for example, is a skill you have to learn."Maitland agrees. "Your stomach does not work so well when you're racing and the six per cent standard concentration of many sports drinks
Is nutrition too complicated? These 10 simple commandments are guaranteed to make you healthier, fitter and faster1. Plan your diet Devise a sensible eating plan that you can stick to, which will suit your lifestyle. Don’t set yourself
Lynn Clay from Maxifuel is a sports scientist, nutrition consultant and freelance journalist with eight years' experience in the nutrition industry. She’s a former AAA gold medallist runner, a keen cyclist and she’s competing in Ironman Austria
situation and pair your training with the right nutrition plan. Over the following pages, we’ll show you how to do both – so when you cross the finish line, the only extra weight you’ll be carrying will be that shiny medal round your neck.Run to lose
nutritional advice after the race? RichardBA. The race is no dfferent to any other hard run. Drink some fluid to replace what you've lost as sweat, but do it slowly over the first few hours. Eat something quickly to fill the gap until you can have a full meal
UAN: Article type:++add book link at top++ --This is adapted from the book, Eat Smart, Play Hard, by RW USA Nutrition Editor Liz Applegate. There may be something here if youre a sprinter. Taking a few spoonfuls of sodium bicarbonate (commonly
brain, a proper nutrition plan may take a back seat.But proper nutrition is central to your training and to race success. By fuelling correctly and ensuring you're hydrated before, during and after training, you will perform and feel better and still
to eat unless my stomach is grumbling. 2. I feel guilty after I eat sweets. 3. I'll run extra miles tomorrow to make up for whatever I eat at dinner tonight. 4. I believe there is a perfect way for a runner to eat. 5. I have off-limits foods, like pizza
, and after your run. Bon appetit!Protein's first shoutThe runner’s perfect nutritional universe started to come apart in 1992 when a University of Texas exercise physiologist, John Ivy, first challenged King Carb. Ivy and colleagues published a study showing
If you're like many runners, you eat well 90 per cent of the time. Maybe you have porridge for breakfast, yoghurt as a snack, and wholewheat pasta to refuel after a run. These are all smart choices, but there's a way to transform these stalwarts
