Is Supplementary Salt Needed in a Race? with Coach Andy DuBois

Trail Runner Nation

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 December 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Your watch timer goes off. It is time for another Salt Cap. You come into an aid station and you are covered with a salty brine on your forehead. It's time for some potatoes and salt. How important is that salt in your training and racing?

Andy DuBois, one of Australia's top endurance coaches, joins The Nation to discuss Salt. Andy is an accomplished elite endurance athlete including a top finish at UTMB and other wins. He has a pedigree of certifications and is always on the cutting edge of research and coaching.

We talk about

Is there a correlation between cramping and low salt consumption?
What is important in monitoring salt levels?
What to worry about if we consume too much salt?
The placebo affect?
Will rinsing your mouth with a brine solution do anything?
What can we do to avoid cramping?
How to cool your body
How important is plyometrics in training?

Here is a link to our interview with Tim Noakes on his new book Waterlogged

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0:00.0	Patel head torches, Scott, I like how you just create these great intros.
0:09.2	That's good stuff.
0:10.2	Hey, you know what?
0:11.2	There's no better head torch on the planet than TKRXP and they, now, correct?
0:16.2	Agree?
0:17.2	Correct.
0:18.2	Any argument?
0:19.2	All I want to say is that we, we, since the beginning of our partnership with Patel,
0:23.4	we have called them torches and, and there's a reason why because we differentiate from
0:29.7	all the other head lamps out there.
0:31.8	Yeah.
0:32.8	They're torches, man.
0:33.8	You can't take a lamp to a dang trail race.
0:37.4	No, you have to take a torch.
0:38.8	That's how you it's done.
0:40.0	And, you know, you can put a torch in your pocket, Scott, you know that that little E-light
0:44.5	that they have.
0:45.5	Now, I know that 500 Lumen for the now, and I know you're, you're beaming out 200 plus
0:49.8	for the TKRXP.
0:51.6	But to have an extra light in your pocket is a little E-light from Patel that you should
0:57.8	include in your Patel purchase.
0:59.8	I think everybody should have multiple E-lites.
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