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Toolbox: Counting Calories During Race Season

Your race season is ramping up and your focus is on performance, which requires proper nourishment and carbohydrate intake. A key part of macronutrinet planning is doing the math to count calories you need to keep building, to recover and…

Toolbox: Tart Cherries as a Functional Food

As athletes, we all want to get the extra “edge”. We train smart, rest hard, eat properly, stay hydrated, all the things everyone should be doing to perform optimally. Let’s look at how to use a ‘functional food’ to aid recovery and…

Toolbox: The Skinny On Staying Lean

Cycling Nutrition: With “off” season in full swing for many cyclists, the same questions always start pouring in, “how do I lose weight in the off season?” “How can I not gain back weight in the off season?” or “should I stop eating carbs?”…

Toolbox: Hold the Fat on the Bike

As the trend towards eating more real foods on the bike grows, I hear more and more questions about eating raw nuts, bars made with bacon and cheese or nut butters while racing or training. Let’s look to clarify why the average bike racer…

The Best Pre-Race Nutrition

You’ve learned as an endurance athlete just how many grams of macronutrients you need to perform at your top potential. Surprised by the carbohydrate requirements you struggle to feel like eating is not a job at times, I get it. I’ve been…

Toolbox: Calcium Intake for Cyclists

As endurance athletes we have so much to focus on. Training, hydration, sleep, equipment, getting enough protein, carbohydrates, how about good fats? How fast are we? Are we climbing well? Sleeping well? What about calcium and bone health?

Toolbox: Soup’s On!

The leaves are falling and the air is crisp. Nothing beats sneaking in a wintertime ride and coming back home to something warm. What’s on the menu? SOUP. Hearty, wholesome, nourishing, warm soup.

Toolbox: Non-Meat Proteins and Quinoa Bowl

When we think of protein, our natural tendency is to think of meat. Many believe that without animal protein we are unable to get “high quality” or complete proteins. This however is not true. I’ve also laid out a great protein-rich recipe…

Toolbox: Oatmeal – The Endurance Weapon

A popular food among cyclists and athletes, oatmeal is likely to be found in most cupboards and hotel rooms across the racing scene this season. A great choice for carbohydrates and one of the more economical quality carbohydrate choices…