Pies are your friend [trainingfilter]

[andygates]

Interesting article here for the tri training posse.  Basically: shovel down 4 grammes of carbs per pound of bodyweight and after an initial puff-out you become a lean mean hyper-fuelled training machine.  Most endurance athletes are wretched starvelings, it seems.

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Buoyancy is good for the swim, tho.

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Basically: shovel down 4 grammes of carbs per pound of bodyweight and after an initial puff-out you become a lean mean hyper-fuelled training machine.

Or else you're just one more person that guy really doesn't have to worry about on race day, because you weigh 20 stone, can't reach your shoelaces during transition, and had to add steel struts to your bike wheels to keep them from collapsing under you.

Though at the very least you should make an image to go with "I can haz whole trey of apple piez plz? I r triafflete."

Re: Buoyancy is good for the swim, tho.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

...and it's sister, the triathlete with an empty bowl and "MOAR!"

The study looked at athletes with average 8% body fat and they were the same composition at the end. Don't wait up for me to hit that number ;)

[skean.livejournal.com]

The trouble with this is it assumes a nice regular training regime. 5 times a week consistently ad infinitum. My training is up and down like a yo yo, with some weeks over 7 sessions and some weeks with zilch. If I start piling into the carbs (excluding beer - beer contains no carbs. This an act of faith), I'd better be damn sure I'm going to have a good few weeks after to get through that water bloat cell phase, otherwise its just adding "fuel tanks" that I ain't going to use.

I'm tending towards now either a large lunch and a protein shake in the evening after training (washed down with beer), or 11's (salad) and something about 2 (sandwich/pasta)if I do something in the middle of the day. Also gives more time in the evening for doing stuf as I've had my main meal at lunchtime.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

You're right, it does indeed talk about endurance athletes with a regular 5-a-week training schedule of endurance training.

[despaer.livejournal.com]

I have a suspicion that they monitored a lot of people with a build not dissimilar to mine. Trouble with diet books, and to a lesser extent training books, is they then to be written by people who have found something that works for them and forget that other people have different physiologies.

Now if somebody could write a book that would truly teach you to listen to and understand your bodies needs then they would be on to something