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Keep Healthy During The Coronavirus Quarantine

An early coach of mine used to say: “Fail to plan, is planning to fail.” But how do you plan in a year where literally the wheels came off so bad? March and April are months that every cyclist anticipates dearly. For the pro tour riders, it’s the Classics and for most amateur riders it’s time for training camps, early season races or just the sheer joy of warmer temperatures, longer daylight hours and big rides on the to-do list. Not this time: most countries are in pandemic lockdown mode. The situation differs from country to country. While some don’t even allow cyclists to ride outside, others still accept individual rider doing their spring training. All races are canceled until the end of June and this makes all kinds of planning very challenging. And this means that your season build needs to be completely redesigned. For the serious bike racer there comes another challenge: how do I keep my body composition (not just weight, but fat percentage as well) in check with a completely changed training regime or how do I adapt my planned diet to these moving targets? I want to share a few essential points and recommendations on ...

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Nutrition tips: how to prepare for a long ride

The first thing professional cyclists or athletes think when they decide to practice a sport is to focus on that discipline, looking for the most effective way to improve their own performance. But “peak performance” is actually the result of a balanced blend of three important factors: training, rest and nutrition. It is worth nothing here that authoritative scientific studies have shown that nutrition is as important as training, or even slightly more so. We can have our car super tuned for top performance, but if we put in inappropriate fuel, the engine will struggle and perhaps not even start. A pro rider during the — always extremely challenging — stages of the next Giro d’Italia will need to consider many factors that can increase the need for sugars, such as the weather conditions. He will also need to remember that by two weeks in, he will find it significantly more difficult to start each stage with full muscle glycogen stores — not to mention that fatigue and inflammation can affect anabolic processes as well. In my profession I always like to begin with an analysis of the specific movement from all points of view and then find the optimal ...

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