There were potatoes eaten with the skin on, steak for breakfast, mountains of pasta, fruit-only diets, long rides with almost nothing in the stomach, the obsessive quest to shed every extra kilo… […] Read more →
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Tour de France: does recovery start on the plate?
After discovering who Nina Voit is, understanding why the gut often constitutes the weakest link in performance, and then exploring what truly distinguishes an energy gel […] Read more →
Tour: gels or real food, does the body tell the difference?
For several years now, the pockets of Tour de France riders have looked more like portable laboratories than pantries. Gels, carbohydrate drinks, fruit pastes, energy bars, gummies, liquid concentrates… each […] Read more →