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I was doing my nightly website blogging and came across Joe Friels: Overtraining article. Much to my displeasure, he never came up with a clear answer. Honestly I’ve come up with a small list of things that happen that typically lead down the road to being overtrained. 1 – Canker sores. Yes, breakdown of your mouth [...] 5pm – I could be found in a Mac’s eating fist fulls of candy. Energy levels were lowest of the low. 4:34pm – Completed a 20K time trial on the bike at a dismal speed. I was spent. To rub salt in the wound, I went out way too hard an suffered for it. [...] On Friday I get to be a lucky participant in quite an unusal test but with some ordinary recovery drinks. The test will compare which drink: chocolate milk 1% and 2%, soy milk, and a placebo, is better for a recovery aid after exercise. Test overview V02 Max done as a ramp test done [...]
Here is a funny word: Osmolarity. If your a science nerd chances are you’ve heard of it. Osmolarity is basically how much solute (think salt) is in a give liter of solvent (think water). So ocean water would have a higher osmalarity level compared to lake water. Why is this important? Well, if you want your [...] About a month ago I experimented with Creatine (a Rivalus product called Encharged). My goal was to gain 5 lbs of muscle quickly and listening to the reviews on creatine, I knew that it could be attainable. Why would you want to add weight when your an endurance athlete? Doesn’t really make sense [...] My light reading material at the moment is “Biochemisty Primer for Exercise Science”. If you want the hardcore science in what your body is doing, without the physics, have a gander. Although if your not interested in reliving your high school or University days, let me share some of the interesting thoughts. The [...] After making a delicious first round, I changed up the reciped a bit for trial 2. I used chocolate chips again but cut the amount in half and increased the glucose content. What I created was… bareable. Just. Taste wasn’t as good as the first trial. This is probably due to my decrease [...] Designing a meal plan can be as hectic as you wanna make it. Recipes, shopping lists, calorie counting, weight measurement, etc; these are all things that can be accounted for when it comes to losing weight or eating right. The basics though, sometimes get overlooked. Think about what you really need. Food and [...] Gel 1009131 After my Jello creation, I decided to change the recipe. Out was the package goods and in was the bare essentials: Cornstarch Dextrose Salt Chocolate Almond Breeze Chocolate Electrolytes This yielded quite a powerful result. With a whopping 4.5Ls of “gu”, the calorie count was near 1600 calories. Not that your [...]
How to Make Your Own Supplements Why would you want to compare these too? One is the mecca of the Ironman World while the other, a legend from the kitchen cupboard. Well my curiosity again, got the best of me and I wanted to find out if Jell-o could be used as an “endurance” source of fuel. Below is [...] In late July, I gave a small presentation about the importance of nutrition to an endurance athletes. I covered most of the important topics like what to eat before, during and after. Also, what to eat for the rest of the day (is there anything else?!). The basis of the presentation was how [...]  |
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