ps. you should eat breakfast every day

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Postby Ant. » Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:55 pm
Postby cpical » Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:13 pm
steveoc wrote:Applying the above to on-the-bike work, this works for me :
- Eat 2-3kg of raw fruit every day leading up to a long ride.
- No meat, just simple carbs and lots of em. Fruit contains enough protein and unsaturated fats as is.
- No salt
- I skip the powerade/gatorade/endura .. and just go for clean water
- I take a small gladbag of various dried fruits on the ride - eat a small grab-full (about 30g worth) every 20 minutes. Dried fruit contains about 4 times the carbs of fresh fruit by mass, but you need to drink more water with it.
- Another small bag in the jersey pocket with fresh grapes, juicy dates, or other bits of fresh fruit that contain a good deal of water without getting your hands messy. (Flat white peaches - are good too, if you can find them). Easy to eat, and doesnt leave you thirsty.
Got me through RideLikeCrazy (100km) and MCCT (160km) this year at a good pace without any problems, and next day I felt fine - rode out to Willunga, watched stage 5, and climbed Willunga Hill a couple of times afterwards, and it was fun. Felt fine sunday as well - rode into town to watch the final day's racing, then up Gorge Road and did Fox Creek Rd again (OK - that bit hurt, but that is to be expected)
The year before that (on a 'standard' diet - meat, salt, fructose, milk, everything cooked to death and back again) - I bonked on every ride I did, suffered badly on every climb, and took a shortcut at the end of the MCCT just to survive. Id usually end up getting a bad cold and body aches after big rides as well, and definitely ended up confined to a tired sleep in the next few days afterwards.
Hope that helps.
Postby twizzle » Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:56 pm
Ant. wrote:Never mind the rookie error comment, misread your initial post.
ps. you should eat breakfast every day
Postby Ant. » Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:38 pm
Postby twizzle » Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:48 pm
Postby steveoc » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:14 pm
JV911 wrote:steveoc wrote:Eat 2-3kg of raw fruit every
2-3kg?
that's the equivalent of 20-30 bananas
Postby scoulr05 » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:22 pm
Postby twizzle » Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:35 am
Postby snark » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:02 pm
Ant. wrote:And yes, 7 is a really akward number, since there's 12 in a row inside the weetbix box
Postby Ant. » Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:42 pm
Postby toolonglegs » Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:39 am
Postby Aussiebullet » Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:56 am
nimm wrote:The problem is specifically sweetened things (including fructose) in refined form that's immediately passed into the bloodstream and in which case the liver has to metabolise. Naturally occuring fructose, such as that in fruit, always comes with fibre and other things which slow digestion (versus drinking sweet water/fizzy drinks/fruit drinks) and then bacteria and other processes come into play reducing the fructose the body ends up absorbing.
Also, in endurance exercise situations fructose actually helps (according to that Sugar video, but doesn't go into details). Something along the lines of producing glycogen faster than glucose. BUT this is in cases where the body is in deficit
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