The last week has been a lot of fun and very enlightening. Getting to hang out with some of the fastest riders in the world as they prepare for the upcoming season has shown me a side of racing I had not seen before. The amount of preparation and planning needed to get these guys ready to roll is impressive and Team Yeti is one of the best in the world at doing it.
The main point of the trip for these guys was to get their suspension dialed in. Fox Racing Shox sent Mike, one of their best techs, out to help them do just that. I got to do a presentation on nutrition and training on the road as well as put all of the team members through a movement screen to help them identify their weak links and any potential injuries that might be lurking under the surface.
Here are some of the lessons I learned this week:
- I asked both Scott Sharples and Jarred Graves about clipless pedals. I had done some research on them and was surprised to find that there is not a lot of research on the subject and nothing that definitively says clipless pedals help you produce significantly more power. They both told me that was because they don’t.
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Mountain Bike Nutrition & Supplements, Technical Skills Training
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!
You can find out more about Precision Nutrition by clicking on this link:
http://tinyurl.com/mtbpnlink
You can download the MP3 file and subscribe to my podcasts by clicking on this link.
-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/
-James Wilson-
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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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