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Eat Well, Race Fast
By on 24/11/2009 11:50:38
Follow these easy refuelling steps to perform at your peak on race day
With three disciplines to consider, it's easy to make mistakes when you're eating and drinking during training and racing. That's the bad news. The good news is that it's easy to avoid triathlon's common nutritional pitfalls if you plan ahead
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Put Down the Pre-race Pasta
By on 18/11/2009 11:45:26
Most triathletes turn to carbs for their pre-race meal. But should they?
One of the long-enduring and rarely questioned traditions associated with triathlon events of all kinds is the substantial pasta dinner the evening before race day. After all, who doesn't believe in the hearty, turbo-fuelling advantages of eating a
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Carb Your Enthusiasm
By on 18/11/2009 15:26:47
Carbohydrates have had a bad press in recent years, but they are vital for triathletes. You just have to know what to eat, and when
to the bowl of pasta you were planning for lunch. You don't need a nutritionist to tell you that refined, processed foods such as cakes, biscuits and pastries have little nutritional value, but many complex carbohydrates are also refined, which complicates
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Watch Your Iron Levels
By on 18/11/2009 13:09:05
A lack of iron in your diet can really slow you down, but it's an easy problem to treat
Heavy legs? Breathless? Can't keep up with your training partners? If you've put any recurring lethargy down to too much training and have carried on regardless, hoping that the fatigue will eventually, magically disappear, you could be in for a long wait. You could have anaemia,...
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Q+A: Is coffee an acceptable recovery drink?
By on 12/04/2011 11:00:57
team (puresportsmed.com). She specialises in sports nutrition and performance, obesity, cardiovascular issues, and diabetes and insulin resistance. She has worked with professional athletes and non-elites. She is a member of the Nutrition Therapy
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Healthy Fast Food (Preview)
By Chris Broadbent on 08/03/2010 18:16:02
Your best meal is probably the one you cook yourself, but sometimes you have to make do with takeaways, which can be something of a nutritional minefield (non-subscriber preview)
When you make a meal from scratch you know exactly what you're going to be eating and you can add as many healthy ingredients as you like. Unfortunately, holding down a job, having a life outside that job and training for triathlon often leave
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Healthy Fast Food
By Chris Broadbent on 08/03/2010 17:52:28
Your best meal is probably the one you cook yourself, but sometimes you have to make do with takeaways, which can be something of a nutritional minefield
When you make a meal from scratch you know exactly what you're going to be eating and you can add as many healthy ingredients as you like. Unfortunately, holding down a job, having a life outside that job and training for triathlon often leave
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Fruit Punch: Five Smoothies
By Jessica Girdwain on 05/09/2011 16:29:16
Give these five high-powered concoctions a whirl and get a real fruit punch
A smoothie is a great way to start the day, and with a little imagination you can give yours a real kick.Have a little patience with the preparation: a study from Penn State University in the US found that people whose smoothies were blended for five minutes ate 12 per cent less ...
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Food Fact vs Food Fiction
By Joel Weber with Mike Zimmerman on 03/05/2011 10:06:03
With so much contradictory information about food it's almost impossible to make smart choices - that's why we've come to the rescue
Every day you are bombarded with images of food, facts about food and outright lies about food, and this constant barrage has to compete with what you already think you know about food. Sometimes you just want a few simple questions answered. So that's what we've done. With the r...
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Foods that Heal
By Kelly Bastone on 27/05/2011 15:50:30
To mend muscles and heal fractures more quickly, look no further than your local supermarket
When you're sidelined by injury your natural reaction should be to cut back on calories until it's time to return to training - and burning energy. But the healing process demands fuel, too. "It's like fixing a house," says sports dietitian Cynthia Sass. "A crack in the foundatio...
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