Using Nutrition to Improve Recovery and Fuel Your MTB Rides
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
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4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Nichole Dandrea-Russert is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and the author of The Vegan Athlete's Nutrition Handbook. Her website Purely Planted offers tips for adding more plants to our diets, and she's based right here in Atlanta.
- How did you get interested in nutrition? Have you always been an athlete?
- For the vegan athletes you work with, is improving performance a primary reason for adopting a plant-based diet, or are other considerations that tend to come first?
- How does a plant-based diet help athletes with recovery and reducing inflammation?
- How does eating less saturated fats and cholesterol improve athletic performance? Is it helpful for endurance sports like cycling?
- How do you know if you are not getting enough fat?
- What are some good plant-based sources of protein?
- What are some other advantages of a plant-based diet for cyclists?
- Do you have any tips for keeping to a healthy diet while traveling?
- How big of a factor is diet in athletic performance?
- Can mountain bikers get some of the advantages of a plant-based diet without giving up meat and dairy completely?
The Vegan Athlete's Nutrition Handbook is out today and you can purchase it online or keep up with the latest at purelyplanted.com.
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| 0:00.0 | The Single Tracks podcast is brought to you by TPC, the Proz Closet. |
| 0:05.7 | Now is the perfect time to upgrade, and TPC has an industry-leading selection of new and certified |
| 0:11.9 | pre-owned bikes, plus frames, wheels, and accessories. Each certified pre-owned bike is inspected, |
| 0:19.0 | tested, and serviced, and every bike includes 30-day returns. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit tpc.bike forward slash single tracks and enter code single tracks $40 to save $40 on every order over 200. |
| 0:33.4 | That's the pros closet at tpc.bike slash single tracks. |
| 0:37.8 | And look for the link and coupon code in the show notes. |
| 0:41.7 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:44.5 | My name is Jeff. |
| 0:46.0 | And today my guest is Nicole Dandreya Russert. |
| 0:49.4 | Nicole is a registered dietitian nutritionist and the author of the vegan athletes nutrition handbook. |
| 0:56.5 | Her website, Purely Planted, offers tips for adding more plants to our diets. |
| 1:01.6 | And like me, she's based right here in Atlanta. |
| 1:04.9 | Thanks for joining me, Nicole. |
| 1:07.0 | Thanks for having me today, Jeff. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:09.6 | So tell us a bit about your background. |
| 1:11.8 | How did you get interested in nutrition? I think I owe a lot of it to my parents. To be |
| 1:18.3 | honest, they've always been active. And since high school, we had one of those basement gyms, |
| 1:24.3 | you know, one of those universal, universal workout systems downstairs and |
| 1:29.3 | learned, you know, a little bit from them on weight training and got into a practice of just |
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