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Training for endurance sport – marathon, triathlon, sportive, ultra – is all-consuming. We focus on the race, the session and our immediate goalsBut if we look longer term, the picture shifts. Because while small improvements and gains can be had in the short term, they're all just stepping stones on the way to serious, sustainable [...]
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By definition, the best sports nutrition for endurance athletes should be made to the highest standards and using the best ingredients available. After all, these are products to sustain health-conscious folks taking their bodies to the limit.But as we've already seen with maltodextrin and acesulfame K that the ingredients in most sports nutrition endurance products are cheap [...]
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Sports nutrition ingredients are often well hidden, because many companies would rather you didn't read them. Here's why
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The best diet for endurance athletes is not as complicated as most experts like to make outWhen it comes to the best diet for endurance athletes there's a ton of information available, but little variety. Most can be boiled down into: Eat X grams of carbs per kilo of bodyweight during exerciseEat Y grams of protein [...]
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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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