Training Tip Tuesday 3

Lately, I’ve been fielding many questions about nutrition as how it relates to sports and endurance events in particular. I’ve had questions from everything to pre-race nutrition and glycemic index diets to post-workout recovery nutrition and fuel source use during events. There is a ton of information out there and much of it is contradictory unfortunately. For example, how many of you live and die by the “carb loading” principle the night before a race? Most marathons offer a marathon eve pasta dinner. Well, there is debate about the efficacy of carb loading. Some coaches feel that carb loading should begin 3 days before the event, while others ignore the carb meal and argue that the taper week accomplishes the same goal (muscle loading of glycogen).

Just because it’s a complicated issue doesn’t mean that I’m not going to tackle it.

This week I wanted to start with the basics. For many of you this will be old hat knowledge. It will be a good review. For others, this will be a good introduction and first step towards understanding how nutrition affects your training and performance.

The link provided is from the Harvard School of Public Health. I hope you find it useful.

Have a safe and productive week of training.

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