Intensive physical exercise can increase your body’s demand for vitamins and minerals when you’re going faster metabolic processes speed up with you in order to work quickly and efficiently you’re using more vitamins and minerals and you’re losing them faster a low supply of vitamins and minerals in relation to their increased use, to which […]
The crucial component of staying competitive in Ultra Race is staying fuelled. The distances that we ride aren’t really compatible with regular feeding. So we have to eat regularly on the bike. That will include having a bag of nuts, or a bag of Haribo sweets, or Nutrigrain bars for example. These are all the […]
– Hey, what’s up? Day six and today is no training day. So you deserve your rest, because you’ve been training five days already. Now I want to take this opportunity to talk about something that I haven’t talked about in most of my videos, and that is nutrition. You see why I haven’t talk […]
(bright pop music) – Welcome to a very special edition of Ask GCN with Professor Asker Jeukendrup, who is a world renowned expert on sports nutrition. He’s literally written the textbook on sports nutrition, so thanks for making time for us, Asker. – Thanks for having me. – Pretty busy guy. He’s a nutrition consultant […]
– Supporting your triathlon training with a good, balanced diet is essential for your performance. Today, I’m looking gonna be looking at which superfoods can give you that natural boost. (robotic burst) – Let’s start by addressing the term or word “superfood.” Now, many nutritionists actually shudder at the thought of that word, because there […]
Nick: Dr. Nick here with Rich Roll. You know, it’s really exciting to hear a story of yours, how you met Rip or you were in similar circles years ago. You’re both fairly young. You’re a competitive swimmer, that is, at Stanford. So tell me a little bit about what brought you to how to […]
Priming the Proton Pump What could possibly be in beet juice to so revolutionize the field of sports physiology? First, a quick biochemistry breather. Our body uses oxygen to create ATP, the energy currency of our bodies. Every time we think; every time we blink; every time we flex a muscle; we use up ATP, […]
♪♪♪ By now, you’ve probably heard of the keto diet. You might even know someone who swears by it. The keto, or ketogenic diet, involves eating lots of fat and very few carbohydrates. Think steak, bacon, and pork chops, day in and day out. It might sound like a heart attack waiting to happen, but […]