Triathlon Nutrition Blog

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...

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...

Quick answer: A 70.3 nutrition plan comes down to four numbers. Carb load at 10 to 12 grams of carbohydrate per kilogram of body weight per day for the 36 to 48 hours before the race, eat 2 to 3 grams per kilogram at breakfast 2 to 3 hours before your wave, take in 70 to 90 grams of carbohydrate per...