Real Food Basics: Endurance Planets Recipes For Your Long Workouts

The answer is yes. Case in point is World Champion cyclist Thor Hushovd, who stands over six feet tall, and weighs His build is much larger than the iconic pro road racer, and his caloric demand during a stage of the Tour de France can tear through 6, calories. Off the bike he eats a gluten-modified diet comprised of a tasty variety of foods featuring curry dishes, vegetables, quality sources of protein and some traditional spaghetti.

His breakfast features oatmeal, eggs, ham, rice, and cereal. His diet focuses less on wheat and other foods containing gluten to avoid the inflammatory effects associated with high gluten diets. Ultra endurance runners rely on getting their calories from sources other than gels and sport drinks. Aid stations and special needs bags may contain potatoes, sandwiches, and fruit, in addition to sources of sodium in pretzels, chips or broth. In most long distance training or events, there comes a point when you crave comfort foods rather than squeezing another gel pack.

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This is where you begin to return to the roots of consuming real food. Available for purchase at EndurancePlanet. Photo by humbert15 , licensed through the Creative Commons. Blend oats in food processor or blender until it is powdery. Add dates, and blend. Next add the carrots, pineapple and raisins, blending with each ingredient.

Add spices, blending and combining all the ingredients. If the mixture is too wet, add more oats. Hosted by coach and fitness guru Tawnee Prazak , Endurance Planet is one of the top outdoor sports podcasts in iTunes, and features interviews with coaches and athletes in the world of ultra running, marathoning, cycling, swimming, triathlon, adventure racing, and mountaineering. Each of those books is now available to you as a free or 99 cent download for the next six weeks only.

Here are the details for each book and as a bonus, every book below includes a free video and a minute audio overview read by each author. There is something about finishing a race and giving it your all that lifts you up for a lifetime. There is something unique and family-like about being part of a team. But it must be done right. Kids need to be introduced to sports with immense care and proper instruction. Parents or coaches who do this wrong will ensure that the kid-athletes will burn out and leave their sports during adolescence or earlier, perhaps never to return.

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But done right everyone will enjoy becoming healthier and grow from the experience. Grab it now or use this link to grab it later, and please leave a review: Are you tired of the same old sports nutrition advice not working for you? Do you feel crappy during your long workouts? Are you confused about what to grab from the grocery store shelf?

All your frustrations about what to eat before, during and after your workout are about to be solved! This book is guaranteed to re-invent the way you fuel your body and answer all your workout and sports nutrition questions! Outside the USA -Canada: If you are an athlete attempting to lose weight, teach your body how to more efficiently burn fat, limit blood sugar fluctuations, eliminate bloating and gas, then a low carbohydrate diet is an excellent choice for you.

Unfortunately, most low carbohydrate diets do not take into consideration the high activity levels of endurance athletes, and increase risk of extremely low energy and immune system deficits due to inadequate energy intake.

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When parts of your body are tense, straining, disconnected, or not happy to move, you're working against yourself. When every part of your body moves in a harmonious concert with every other part, you are — by your nature and the fact that you are here — an incredibly high-performance machine.

This way of being doesn't happen overnight. It's part physical training, and part reorienting your psychology around a powerful belief that you can achieve very great things without suffering. So it might take some time, some practice. But you will notice right away when it kicks in during a run, a long uphill on bike, or scaling whatever mountainous challenge you happen to be up against.

When you know your way around you, you're going to knock your own socks off. You're going to have loads of fun seeing things that are supposed to be "hard" just happen for you.

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No force, no struggle, just doing it. Try applying this to your yoga. Try applying it to your runs and races, your cycling, rowing, and climbing. See what happens, and let me know how it goes. Want to get started on YouTube? You can check out Mike's new channel here. Group 8 Created with Sketch. Group 7 Created with Sketch. Email Created with Sketch. Group 9 Created with Sketch. Group 10 Created with Sketch. Group 11 Created with Sketch. Group 4 Created with Sketch. Here are four simple steps to bring this into your training, for anything you want to achieve: