#699 – Hydration And Fueling with Dr. Alex Harrison

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

Mike Tarrolly

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Every triathlete should listen to this podcast. We go deep into hydration and fueling and keep the solutions simple. We look at why most triathletes don't take in enough sodium. We look at traditional sports drinks and explain why they likely need to be supplemented. We talk about too much peeing, hypoglycemia, and extreme thirst and what they indicate. We get into solid foods vs. gels and explain what might be best for you. We talk about fueling on race morning and why you could be setting yourself up for disaster as early as the swim. We also get into how you can dial in your nutrition for different types of workouts. We talk about the root cause of cramping, some myths about high blood pressure, and how our traditional fueling may be at the root of why so many triathletes have a hard time losing weight.

Topics:

Saturday Morning Fueling App
Solving the fueling mystery
How much sodium?
How many carbs?
Is there bad sodium?
Under-hydration
Over-hydration
Blood/sodium concentration
Most sports drinks aren't designed for Ironman
Extreme thirst
Morning of the race
Too much peeing
How much sodium per liter?
It doesn't have to be so complex
Solid foods vs. Gels
The best thing for your gut
A hydrated gut functions the best
Fueling by listening to your body
Placebo effect
Slower digesting carbs vs. fast carbs
How many carbs?
Training your gut
Dialing in your nutrition on every workout
Fueling the bike AFTER a swim
Possible cause of swim anxiety
What causes cramping?
Blood pressure and sodium
Should your blood pressure be higher?
Fueling and weight loss for triathletes
Serving sizes
Too much water?

Contact Dr. Alex Harrison - support@saturdaymorning.fit

Saturday Morning Fueling App - Search Saturday Morning Fuel in App Store

www.saturdaymorning.fit

Coaching Inquiries

Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com

Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com

www.c26triathlon.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right.
0:18.1	All right. Good morning, coach. Happy to be here. Excited about this cast.
0:23.0	It's been a while. We have a guest today, folks.
0:26.3	Yeah, I know. Today, it might be a little rusty.
0:30.2	It may be a little rusty, but that's okay. It's July 13th, the year, 2020.
0:35.3	We'll go aboard everybody. You listen to the crushing iron podcast, and this is
0:39.1	episode 600 and 99. Yeah, you realize that's one away from 700 podcasts. I'm aware. I'm not the
0:48.0	greatest at math, but that is one of the things that I was able to surmise where we started there.
0:52.5	That's one from 700. I don't know that we have anything special planned.
0:56.9	Maybe I will say like a couple weeks ago, we did our big Q&A, there was a lot of great
1:01.0	feedback or suggestions of the podcast we did.
1:04.4	I think it's been like a year or two ago where we wrote down three or four questions to
1:09.6	ask each other and we quizzed ourselves.
1:11.8	Maybe we could do that again for 700.
1:13.5	People seem to like that.
1:15.4	There's always plenty of things to talk about.
1:17.4	But yeah, it's just 700.
1:19.0	It's just a number.
1:19.8	We'll celebrate it for all of about, what, 63 minutes to the length of the podcast and move on to the next one.
1:24.8	Yeah, that's all we do.
1:26.9	It's just one day at a time, man.
1:29.3	One day at a time. And yeah, we'll introduce our guests here in a minute, but it's first time
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