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Triathlon Nutrition: Calories, Carbs, Fats, and Proteins - part 1 | EP#94

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A research-based review of nutrition, including overall energy intake, energy balance, and macronutrients (fat, protein and carbs) for endurance athletes. Part one of two.     IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: Energy balance Energy availability (you may be cutting yourself short even if intake equals energy expenditure) How the body uses different ratios of carbs and fats to fuel endurance performances Why you need to be a carb AND fat burner!  Carbohydrate for endurance athletes     SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com     SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW for 15% off any products.     Ventum - The ultimate triathlon bikes, using technology from fighter jets and Formula One race cars. Easier to build, pack, and travel with than any other tri bike. Get 110% of the value of your old bike towards the purchase of a new Ventum bike.      LINKS AND RESOURCES: Nutrition and Athletic Performance: Position statement Threshold Confusion: Aerobic, Anaerobic, Lactate, Functional - Help! | EP#71 Energy requirements of the athlete: Assessment and evidence of energy efficiency 2014 Female Athlete Triad Coalition Consensus Statement on Treatment and Return to Play of the Female Athlete Triad The IOC consensus statement: beyond the Female Athlete Triad—Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) New Insights into the Interaction of Carbohydrate and Fat Metabolism During Exercise  Improved Gross Efficiency during Long Duration Submaximal Cycling Following a Short-term High Carbohydrate Diet Contemporary Nutrition Approaches to Optimize Elite Marathon Performance Fueling strategies to optimize performance: training high or training low? Carbohydrates for training and competition Dietary protein for athletes: from requirements to optimum adaptation. Decreased PDH activation and glycogenolysis during exercise following fat adaptation with carbohydrate restoration RATE AND REVIEW:If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/     CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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then your resting metabolic rate will fall and you will need to consume even less calories to be in energy balance

0:06.6

but that will then negatively impact your energy availability so that's why it's important to

0:12.3

if you're trying to lose weight make it a limited period of time

0:17.2

the triathlon show, episode 94.

0:34.4

Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast

0:40.8

presented by Scientific Triathlon.com. I'm your host, Michael, and on today's episode, I discuss

0:47.6

nutrition. It's another solo guide and specifically what we'll cover is the research-based

0:53.9

recommendations for your overall

0:55.7

nutritional energy intake, as well as the intake of fat, protein and carbohydrate for

1:02.2

endurance athletes.

1:04.1

I'm a bit rushed to get this episode out because we've had a couple of rescheduled

1:09.4

interviews.

1:10.1

I think I mentioned on last

1:11.5

episode that you would hear Veronica Vleck on this one, for example, but that has been rescheduled.

1:18.6

It will come out pretty soon. I don't know exactly when, but that was rescheduled and then there was

1:24.6

another interview rescheduled as well. So I had to quickly

1:28.0

come up with a topic and went through a bunch of old questions that I've gotten from listeners

1:33.6

like you. And a lot of them revolve around nutrition, it seems. So let's tackle this one bit at a time.

1:41.7

And there will be follow-up episodes to this one but this first one is your

1:45.6

mostly about overall day-to-day nutrition energy intake and the intake of the free macro-nutrients

1:52.5

I'm excluding alcohol because yeah I don't want to give you any recommendations or guidelines

1:58.4

for that necessarily or maybe I should at some

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