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That Triathlon Show

Race-day fueling and The Core Diet with Jesse Kropelnicki | EP#40

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Fueling is the fourth discipline in triathlon, but in long-course racing, it's no less important than swimming biking and running. Jesse Kropelnicki, elite coach and founder of QT2 Systems and The Core Diet, has worked with a great number of athletes and made race-day fueling their strength using the principles of The Core Diet. If you've struggled with race-day fueling, you'll walk away from this interview with a clear path for how to make it right. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN: -How to think about nutrition in your day to day life -How to reach your racing weight -How to fuel in training -What the fuel window is, and why it is so important -How to fuel in races LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below). NOTES: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0

I've probably worked with somewhere in the vicinity of 70 professional triathletes on their race fueling.

0:09.6

That Traflon Show, episode 40.

0:28.1

Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to that triathlon show.

0:32.3

The podcast presented by Scientifictraathlon.com.

0:38.6

I'm your host Michael and I'll keep this intro very short and sweet because the interview that we have on tap for today is pretty long. It's with Jesse Cropolnicki, head coach and founder of QT2 systems

0:45.5

and a lot of other brands underneath Q2 systems in particular The Core Diet.com.

0:51.8

And that is what we'll talk about today.

0:59.4

You'll learn how you should fuel your Ironman and half-Iroman races.

1:07.0

What kind of fueling you should do in training to support that race fueling to allow you to handle what you need to do on race day.

1:13.6

And how you should do with your day-to-day nutrition to complement that fueling in training and racing and what you need to do that because obviously there are things like body composition

1:18.4

and a lot of other things recovery your immune function and so on that are affected a lot by your

1:25.0

nutrition so it's a very difficult equation to solve.

1:28.7

But Jesse and his team at the core diet has been doing it for a long, long time, very successfully.

1:34.7

So I found this interview incredibly insightful.

1:38.6

Let's just die right in and have a listen to it.

1:43.6

All right on today's interview on that triathlon show, I'm talking to Jesse Cropolnicki from

1:49.9

QT2 Systems and Decor Diet and from a lot of other places because this man has a lot of

1:56.8

things going on. Jesse, welcome to the show, man.

1:59.4

Thanks. No worries. Happy to be here. Yeah, so as I alluded to there, you're doing a lot of things going on. Jesse, welcome to the show, man. Thanks. No worries. Happy to be here.

2:01.4

Yeah, so as I alluded to there, you're doing a lot of things in triathlon and endurance sports

2:06.8

in general. So can you just tell us a little bit more about your background? Yeah, sure, just a little

2:12.7

bit about my background. I'm actually an engineer by education and got into triathlon and endurance sports in

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