Research studies supporting fuelling with 2:1 Multiple Transportable Carbohydrates:

Stellingwerff, T & Cox, GR. 

Interestingly, whilst we’re going to suggest that you take a recovery drink as soon as you finish, just so that you limit the tiredness you’re going to feel the next day, beyond that, you know what, who cares? 

Need we tell you that Day 3 is like Groundhog Day again? 

This is going to be a little bit like Groundhog Day! 

We’re going to cover quite a lot of information under ‘Day 1’ but please bear in mind that many of the areas discussed here will simply be repeated on Day 2, Day 3 and so on. 

The purpose of carbohydrate loading is to super-charge your physiology with glycogen (the form that carbohydrate is stored within the body). 

If you’re travelling long distance to your event, especially if it’s on an aeroplane, you need to be organised with your nutrition, or you could just find yourself eating anything and everything! 

We won’t go into detail about how to train and prepare physically for your chosen event, because this article is centred entirely on nutrition. 

At long last, we have put together a definitive nutritional guide for stage-racing and multi-day events. 

Although perhaps better-known for our cutting-edge Performance Nutrition products, did you know that TORQ has been a cutting-edge Fitness Consultancy since 1999 and one of the reasons we originally called ourselves TORQ was because successful coaching and consultancy requires extemporary communication. 

With winter in full swing now and the weather set to get colder as we move deeper into January, our Fitness Consultancy have put together some very useful resources to help you to get the most out of your winter training. 

This article today from the BBC talks about an area that we are in broad agreement with here at TORQ, not just from a sustainability perspective, but from a health and performance standpoint too.