The 33Fuel Blog
Is maltodextrin sugar? Indeed it is. Except it's way cheaper and actually worse for you than regular sugar. It's a junk food staple found in everything from crisps to fizzy drinks and is also packed into ordinary sports nutrition, as well as all manner of other apparently 'healthy' or 'low-sugar/no-sugar' products. This is all thanks to [...]
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The mega marketing job that’s been done by Big Nutrition has oversimplified recovery nutrition for endurance athletes to the point of stupidityIn short, they’ve boiled the whole subject down to just two points: Use carbs to fuelUse protein to recoverThis works a treat for Big Nutrition because that’s all they sell – the cheapest carbs and [...]
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Sourcing the best endurance supplements – how to spot good from badIn the world of sports nutrition there are a number of neat tricks employed by large companies with larger marketing budgets to persuade consumers - even educated ones - that their products may deliver more than they do. This makes sorting good from bad [...]
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Think endurance sport and what comes to mind?Marathon running? Ultras? Maybe a spot of long-distance triathlon? Or even a bloody long bike ride?Many things, but probably not carrying a massive pantomine horse about in front of the Queen though?No, we thought not. Yet as it turns out, carrying a whopping great horse about on stage while [...]
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Sports nutrition for endurance, the basics: how to turn your daily diet into a performance powerhouse. Today we're shining a light into those much-overlooked corners of diet and nutrition, the places the rest of the sports nutrition industry would prefer you didn’t visit - we're talking real food
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