The 33Fuel Blog
Carbohydrate for endurance athletesAh, the good old carbohydrate. Once the beloved friend of the endurance athlete and nutritionist alike, carbohydrates really aren't all they're cracked up to be when going long, fast and efficient is your goal and the subject of carbohydrates for endurance athletes is long overdue a massive rethink.The biggest performance-sapping culprits are [...]
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Our Chia Energy Gel is here! After months and months of testing, trialing, recipe finessing and sheer bloody hard graft, we at 33Fuel are utterly stoked to release our brand new Chia Energy Gel.Packing a mighty punch from whole, unprocessed chia seeds for clean-burning, sustained energy this gel is like nothing you've ever tried before. [...]
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A deep dive on protein and athletes: best sources, when to take it, how often and much moreAfter our recent post about why protein shakes suck, we had so many great questions about whether protein powders were necessary, which were best, if real food could be a viable substitute for athletes and whether concepts like [...]
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Carbohydrate for runnersModern sports nutrition theory has us locked down hard when it comes to the subject of carbohydrate for runners. The rules, we are told, are that we we need loads of carbohydrates for running performance. This isn't even close to true, and nor is it helpful for performance, stomach happiness or longterm health. Teaching [...]
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Broscience in sports nutrition and why it mattersBroscience is a tag applied to any evidence for change not proven by science. It sounds hollow and demeans evidence it's applied to at a stroke. "But it's not real science" someone will bleat before closing their mind and moving on. By contrast actual science remains the lone [...]
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