Is Cycling Nutrition Too Complicated? – Ask a Cycling Coach 398
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
0:00 Welcome!
1:48 Quick cramp fixes
10:32 Energy Balance vs. Energy Availability: What is the best way to track food intake?
22:31 Should you be ingesting mid-ride protein?
34:35 Cyclists, carbs, insulin, and fat metabolism
51:15 What makes the beginning of an interval so hard?
1:02:20 How to manage your relationship with food when it gets extra complicated
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to be talking all about nutrition. |
| 0:01.8 | We're going to be talking about counting calories, fat adaptation, and cramps, which |
| 0:04.7 | probably we triggered half the audience already on just those three topics. |
| 0:09.0 | So it's going to be a great one. |
| 0:11.2 | We have with us our head coach Chad Timmerman. |
| 0:13.3 | We have Squid, Bikes, Ive, Yardra and then we also have a special guest with us |
| 0:16.0 | today. Alex Larson from Alex Larson Nutrition. |
| 0:19.0 | First time on the podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Good to have you. |
| 0:20.5 | I know. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:21.9 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:23.8 | We saw your reels on Instagram and you reached out and it was funny because you |
| 0:28.0 | reached out, but I had seen your reels in my explore like a couple days before that too, |
| 0:32.2 | which is quite serendipitous. |
| 0:34.2 | Can you explain or just introduce yourself really quickly for the audience and then |
| 0:37.3 | they know who's talking? |
| 0:38.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.0 | So I'm a registered dietitian. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm a hail from Duluth, Minnesota. |
| 0:43.2 | So up where we have an epic amount of snow right now and I like background. |
| 0:49.4 | Like athletically is, I was really into triplums before my husband and I started our family. |
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