I was lucky enough to get two members of the Precision Nutrition team on the phone to talk about nutrition for mountain biking. We discussed some basic nutrition strategies, some race day strategies, supplement recommendations and dispelled some myths about carbo loading and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). Definitely worth checking out if you want to learn more about how to maximize your training and riding through nutrition!
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-James Wilson-
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Mountain Bike Nutrition & Supplements
While I try to keep this blog pretty mountain bike specific, I am a fitness professional and tend to keep up with a wide variety of health and fitness topics. I have just started listening to an audio book called The End of Overeating and while it may not pertain to most of us, almost all of us know someone that suffers from obesity and the inability to control what and how much they eat.
The book starts off with some fascinating interviews with people who simply can not control their eating habits. They are literally obsessed with food and spend all day thinking about it. One of the ladies the author interviewed said she was able to control her weight through a lot of exercise but that she still obsessed with food, something that me wonder how many riders fall into that category of using mountain biking to help balance out their food obsessions.
The book then talked about how this obesity epidemic is a rather new phenomenon. Read more…
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Mountain Bike Nutrition & Supplements
When I was at Interbike a few months back I met Joe Weissenburger who was promoting his new company Fortis Vita. They make a new supplement, Ocinna, that is billed as supporting “body durability”. After looking over the ingredients list and doing some research on them I decided to contact Joe and see if he would be interested in doing an interview to explain more about body durability and how the ingredients in Ocinna help support your training efforts. All in all, I think that this new supplement could be a great addition to your supplement arsenal.
You can learn more about Ocinna as well as follow Joe’s blog at www.fortisvita.com.
You can also download the MP3 file by visiting http://mtbstrengthcoach.podbean.com/
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I have noticed a trend on people’s food logs in my facility – breakfast either breaks the 4 main habits I look for or is practically non-existent. Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. In fact, on days you don’t train it is the most important meal by far (your post workout meal is almost as important).
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Here is something that we all need to be reminded of sometimes – you’re not that advanced! Be it as a rider or in the gym, the vast majority of people reading this are not as advanced as they like to think. It’s called the “10% rule” – only 10% of people are advanced enough to sweat the details.
Here are a couple of examples to better explain this…
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Mountain Bike Nutrition & Supplements, Mountain Bike Strength Training
While most people hit Interbike to look at all the shiny new bikes and parts that will hit the market next year, I went into it with a different goal. Sure, I took some time to check out the new bikes and stuff but I was pretty interested in what who had showed up to promote their training equipment and supplements.
As a long time veteran of the strength training game I am pretty skeptical of most supplements and gimmicks but I tried to keep an open mind for most of the stuff. There were not a ton of booths dedicated to training and supplements but there were some interesting things.
On the positive side, I found a few things that definitely peaked my interest. One was a supplement called Ocinna that was touted as increasing body durability. This is basically code for increasing recovery and as you know I am a huge proponent of recovery tactics so I took a few minutes to talk with the owner of the company and see what it was all about.
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