Carbohydrate Loading:
The Complete Guide for Endurance Athletes
The evidence-based approach to carb load, taught by an Advanced Sports Dietitian with two decades of experience educating endurance athletes.
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In just 70 minutes you'll know how to build a personalised carbohydrate loading plan, so you can start every race glycogen loaded and ready to roll!
Here are some signs your carb loading sucks đđ˝
Most triathletes I work with have done some version of these four things and called it carb loading.
1. You think eating a big bowl of pasta the night before your race is enough.
2. You think drinking more sports drink the day before your race is carb loading.
3. You think eating everything in sight and as much as you can fit in is carb loading.Â
4. You train right up to race day.
None of this = Carbohydrate loading (sorry) đ
Carb Loading (done properly) results in a
1-3% performance gain
It's the closest thing to free speed you'll find
Get The Masterclass âGet Carb loading wrong, and it can go one of two ways...
You significantly under-do it, run out of fuel somewhere in the back half of your race and watch everything you trained hard all season for slip away while your legs turn to concrete.
Or you overdo it. You spend two days stuffing your face, feel bloated and heavy, sleep badly, step on the scale and panic at the extra weight gain, end up with GI issues and still miss the targets that actually matter.
As an endurance athlete,
Carb loading is the one nutrition strategy with the biggest, most reliable payoff on race day.
It is also the one almost everyone gets wrong, because the advice online is generic, contradictory and not personalised.
You're left winging it with the most important meals of your season.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Get The Masterclass âThat's why I made Carbohydrate Loading: The Complete Guide for Endurance Athletes.
It's the full picture in one place.
The science of why carb loading works and how much it's actually worth.
The evidence-based protocol and the practical, how to do it the easy way.
By the end you'll know your specific targets to hit, the right foods to eat, what to avoid and have a custom plan you've built and tested, so you toe the start line with a full fuel tank and a clear head.
About Your Coach
Hi! I'm Taryn Richardson
BHlthSc (Nutr&Diet) (Hons) IOC Dip Sports Nut
Advanced Sports Dietitian, founder of Dietitian Approved and Triathlon Nutrition Academy, and age-group triathlete.
I spent six years as the Sports Dietitian for Triathlon Australia, I hold a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition & Dietetics and an IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition. I know the theory.
But more importantly, I know what it actually takes to fuel a triathlete's life, because I've lived it.
I've carb loaded for my own races and I've walked hundreds of athletes through theirs.
This masterclass is exactly what I teach my Academy athletes. No fluff, no theory for the sake of it, just what works and specifically how to do it.
Exactly What You Get Inside the Masterclass
70 minutes of education, plus the calculator and planner you'll use to dial in every race from now on.
The Science of Carb Loading
- What is Carbohydrate Loading
- How does it work?
- How much of a performance advantage it give you
- Who needs to carb load and for how long
- Female athlete specific considerations
This is the why, so that every choice you make later is one you understand, not one you're blindly following.
The Evidence-Based Protocol
- How to Carbohydrate Load
- Calculate YOUR numbers
- What to eat, what to avoid
- Worked example plans you can copy
- Logistics of loading while travelling
- How (and why) to practice so nothing on the day is a surprise
This is the step-by-step protocol and how to carbohydrate load effectively, the easy way
Carb Loading Calculator and Planner
- A full walk-through of my Carbohydrate Loading calculator and planner,
- A live example so you can see exactly how to build your own plan without second-guessing a single detail.
This is the exact tool my Triathlon Nutrition Academy athletes use, shared outside of TNA for the first time.
The Carb Loading Calculator and Planner
(the magic â¨)
This is the exact tool my Triathlon Nutrition Academy athletes use, shared outside of TNA for the first time. You enter your metrics, and it calculates your individualised carb loading targets.
As you build out your plan across the day, it tallies everything up and tells you, live, whether you're in range or out of range for each target. It has a built-in food database, plus you can add your own favourite foods to make building your day fast.
Build your own plan, tailored to your body and your food preferences, so you can do it again for every race for the rest of your life.
"I thought I knew how to carb load. But after going through the masterclass, it turns out I did not know how to carb load."
â Samantha Zeps ¡ Ironman champion (Busselton) ¡ 14-minute 70.3 PB ¡ Kona qualifier
The Carb Loading Course is for you if:
You've got an endurance event longer than 90 minutes coming up and you want to fuel for it properly instead of binge eating carbs and hoping for the best. Olympic distance triathlon, 70.3 and full distance ironman events, marathons, ultras, long rides, long runs and big open-water swims. If it >90 minutes, carb loading is worth your attention, and this course teaches you exactly how to do it.
The Carb Loading Course is NOT for you if:
Your event is short and sharp and done inside 90 minutes. At that length you're racing off the fuel you already have on board, and a dedicated carb load won't move the needle. Save your money for something that will.
And it's not for you if you want me to hand you a meal plan you'll never understand. That's not how I work. I teach you the why so you can do this yourself, for every race, forever.
"The biggest change has been learning what foods actually work for me. Fibre was wrecking my stomach mid-race. Once I fixed that, everything improved, no more bloating, no more mid-race toilet stops. My energy and confidence are miles ahead. For the first time, I've raced half marathons and a marathon without a single cramp."
â Brent Saltmarsh, 70.3 & Ironman athlete
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The 14-day do-the-work guarantee.
I back this completely, and I back you. Watch all three lessons, build your carb loading plan in the spreadsheet and practise it in at least one training session. If you've done that and it's genuinely not working for you, show me your plan and I'll either sort you out or refund you within 14 days.
The only catch is you have to actually do the work. Watch the lessons, follow the protocol, build your plan, take it for a test run and share it with me. I ask for that because in almost every case where someone thinks their plan isn't working, I can look at their plan and turn it around in five minutes. Either way, you're covered.
"Same course, same body, same training. The only thing different was nutrition. Proper carb loading made a huge difference to my performance."
â Brian M Joseph, 70.3 athlete (45-minute PB at Penn State 70.3)
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Carb loading is free speed sitting right there for the taking.
You've done the hard part already.
Don't leave minutes on the course because no one ever taught you how to fill your glycogen fuel tank properly.
Learn it once. Use it for every race you ever sign up for.
Special launch price ends Sunday 2 August, 11:59pm Brisbane time. Save $150 AUD!
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