Nutrition
The focus of the nutrition column is to provide practical, real world and tested commentary on nutrition with a focus on fuelling to optimise training and recovery and also race day nutrition. The column is predominantly written by Alex Rieken - an ironman athlete who is a talented time triallist and has had the personal experience of losing 30kgs in his question to break a 10hr ironman time.
Carnosine / Beta-alanine supplementation…
Looking for an endurance boost? Carnosine may be the answer…
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You can’t Fast and BE FAST!!
When designing a nutritional program to supplement the body’s energy stores, the rate of digestion and absorption of foods must be taken into account. The time needed for the stomach to start the digestive process, empty its contents into the small intestine, and have the food components absorbed into the bloodstream will directly affect how [...]
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Fit and Healthy - don’t be too sure; part #1
Every so often you hear the headline stories about a well known person who dies too young of a heart attack. The common line is that everyone is terribly surprised because they were “so fit and healthy”. We tend to use these terms somewhat interchangeably.
This is a subject that is of great interest to me [...]
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I want to be PHAT, not fat.
How much should you weigh to maximise you athletic potential? A fifteen year old girl will tell you they are fat when they look like a rake. Generally, endurance athletes feel the same way. Is it healthy? Is it smart? Most importantly, is it FAST?
Nutritional Advisors tell you to find a proper weight and maintain [...]
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Zinc. No not the stuff you put on your nose.
Zinc is such a critical element in human health that even a small deficiency is a disaster. Zinc supplementation is a powerful therapeutic tool in managing a long list of illnesses. Zinc, an essential trace mineral, is required for the metabolic activity of 300 of the body’s enzymes and is considered essential for cell division [...]
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Protein - not just for making you a Beefcake, BEEFCAKE!!!!
Endurance athletes tend to focus on carbohydrate intake and pay little, if any, attention to protein. As a result, protein deficiency appears often among endurance athletes, with its attendant negative effects on performance and health.
Serious endurance athletes do need considerable amounts of protein, far above the normal adult RDA, because maintenance, repair, and growth [...]
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CoQ10 - Myth or Marvel?
CoQ 10. Myth or Marvel?
There are many many supplements on the market all claiming to make you LEGALLY faster, stronger, healthier and an all round super hero. CoQ 10 is just one of the many. Like a range of available supplements, it derives its roots from places other than endurance sport but has been somewhat [...]
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Nutrition - a little background and a few thoughts
Well hello there.
Welcome to the first instalment of many. I am no Doctor, Nutritionist, Sports Expert or Trainer. I am just like you, a person with a “healthy” obsession with going a long way real fast using just my legs (and arms). If we were race cars, we would put in High Octane racing fuel [...]
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Welcome Alex Rieken - Nutrition
I’m a great believer that a few good heads are much better than one and so I’ve invited a range of friends to contribute to this blog. Each contributor will have a specific area of interest or expertise and the first contributor is Alex Rieken.
I know Alex through triathlon and have a great deal of [...]
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