Sports Nutrition for Beginners
Eating properly for the demands of endurance sports can be challenging, especially if you’re new to sport. We explore common misconceptions and pitfalls for the beginner endurance athlete.
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- Aging
- Altitude Training
- Base Training
- Bikepacking
- Cardiovascular Drift
- Cramping
- Endurance Performance Data Analysis
- Environmental Physiology
- Exercise in the Heat
- Fasted Training
- Female Athletes
- Functional Threshold Power
- Gear and Tech
- Goal Setting
- Hydration
- Indoor Cycling
- Injury
- Interval Workouts
- Long Slow Distance
- Masters Athletes
- Nutrition Strategies
- Polarized Training
- Race Planning and Preparation
- Recovery
- Sleep
- Sports Medicine
- Sports Nutrition
- Strength Training
- Supplements
- Testing
- Training Concepts
- Triathlon
- Ultra-cycling
- Whoop
- Zwift
Sports Nutrition > Exercise in the Heat
The Myth of Cramping
Dehydration? Electrolyte imbalance? Heat? None of these actually causes cramping, according to new theories. Coach Trevor Connor takes a closer look.
Q&A on Heat Acclimatization, Sweat Rates, Altitude Effects, FTP Testing, and Fasted Training, with Lindsay Golich
Physiologist Lindsay Golich, who works with some of America’s best Olympic athletes, helps us field questions on heat, altitude, FTP testing, fasted training, and much more.