Welcome to the Ask the Cycling Coach Podcast presented by trainer road.

Today we have Dr. Kyle Fauf and Bach with us from Eastern Oregon University from the Brooks Beast.

He's got athletes going to the Olympic trials here soon and possibly even the Olympics really soon.

It's exciting times.

And thanks for joining us in finals week, Kyle.

That's a tough week to join us.

We're going to talk about protein for cyclists,

sodium loading, fructose, and other stuff.

So stay tuned if you're interested in any of that stuff and how it can make you faster

Let's go straight into Ian's question he says I've heard you guys talk a lot about sodium intake obviously I haven't heard you mentioned sodium bolusing, which she's talking about like preloading with a lot of it in one sitting.

Before a heart event such as what is being recommended by any mentions Dr. James Nickelontonio, I believe is how you pronounce the name.

There's a book called The Salt Fix Win, I think, that he has.

He recommends large sodium loads of 2 to 4 plus grams about an hour before exercise to

increase plasma volume and improve performance. Any thoughts on this

thanks. Kyle the first thing that stands out to me is number one I'm

curious to see if you recommend this for your

athletes but I and this is due to my own misunderstood or my own lack of

understanding I feel like a huge bolus like that just before to increase

plasma volume from what I understand

I doesn't that take longer than just like an instant like boom

plasma volumes up because I took in a bunch of salt?

Uh no it actually does work like this.

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