Triathlon NutritionĀ Blog
Quick answer: why does rest make masters triathletes faster?
In masters triathlon training, rest and recovery become the biggest lever you can pull for performance, because your body no longer bounces back from back-to-back hard sessions the way it did in your 20s. Coach Joe Friel recommends ...
Quick answer: Sports dietitian cost in Australia sits at roughly $180 to $290 for an initial consultation and $97 to $230 for a follow-up, based on fees Australian clinics published in 2026. Ongoing 1:1 coaching packages run about $85 to $99 a week, or around $1,239 upfront for 12 weeks. Medicare re...
A triathlon nutrition strategy is a plan for daily training nutrition and race fuelling built on your own inputs: your training load, gut tolerance, sweat rate and sweat sodium, race distance, age, life and medical history. Most age-group triathletes already have plenty of nutrition information. Wha...
Quick answer: Triathlon nutrition for beginners comes down to four habits you repeat every week, not the clever things you do once a year. Eat enough carbohydrate to match the training you are actually doing, spread protein across the day, practise fuelling in sessions long before race day, and know...
Ā Yes, a triathlete can eat more and lose weight, but only if they were underfuelled to begin with. Curt, a 54 year old age grouper, went from around 2,000 calories (about 8,400kJ) a day to closer to 3,000 (about 12,500kJ), lost 8kg over 9 months and stopped bonking, all while training harder a...
Quick answer: What pro triathletes eat in a day is mostly ordinary food in extraordinary amounts. A professional training 25 to 30 hours a week sits at the top of the carbohydrate guidelines, around 8 to 12 grams per kilogram of body weight per day (Thomas, Erdman and Burke, 2016, Journal of the Aca...
Body recomposition for triathletes means losing body fat while maintaining or increasing lean mass at the same time, and it is genuinely possible. A 2026 trial published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology found that resistance-trained adults eating 250 calories below maintenance los...
Quick answer: Female triathlete nutrition comes down to three priorities, in this order. First, eat enough to cover your training, because low energy availability (not eating enough to fuel both training and normal body function) is the root of most problems women bring to me, from missing periods t...
70.3 Worlds Nice race nutrition came down to five completely different plans on one identical course. Five Triathlon Nutrition Academy athletes raced the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Nice on 12 and 13 September 2026, on a bike leg with roughly 1,200 metres of climbing and a flat, fully exposed...
70.3 Worlds Nice race nutrition came down to five completely different plans on one identical course. Five Triathlon Nutrition Academy athletes raced the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in Nice on 12 and 13 September 2026, on a bike leg with roughly 1,200 metres of climbing and a flat, fully exposed...
Quick answer: Olympic distance triathlon nutrition is a two to three hour problem, so it needs a plan, but not an Ironman plan. Eat 1 to 3 grams of carbohydrate per kilogram of body weight 2 to 3 hours before the start, take 30 to 60 grams of carbohydrate per hour on the bike, drink 500 to 750ml per...
Triathlon nutrition priorities work in a fixed order, and most triathletes run that order backwards. The eight things worth fixing, in sequence, are your overall energy intake, your carbohydrate periodisation, your protein distribution and your day-to-day food quality first, then your hydratio...
