What To Eat and Drink To Fuel Your Best Training Days, with Stephanie Howe, PhD (#243)

OVERVIEW

Stephanie Howe, PhD is our go-to source for no-nonsense, evidence-based nutrition guidance. She doesn't abide fads or pseudoscience and has no allegiances to sports nutrition or supplement companies. An elite ultramarathon runner who won Western States, CTS Coach, and the provider for CTS Nutrition Coaching services, Stephanie works with cyclists, runners, triathletes, and more. In Episode 243 of "The Time-Crunched Cyclist Podcast", Stephanie and Coach Adam Pulford discuss the fundamentals of sports nutrition for training, misconceptions about eating sugar, how the recent "max carbohydrate" trends apply to Time-Crunched Athletes, and more.

TOPICS COVERED

• Why athletes shouldn't be afraid of consuming sugar during exercise
• Ingredients to look for in sports nutrition products
• Adjusting calorie/carbohydrate intake by exercise intensity
• Nutrition for endurance days vs. interval/competition days
• Gut training: what it is, why it's good, how to do it
• What to eat in the 24 hours before important training/competition
• Hydration recommendations for training/competition
• Why you should carry both water and sport drink

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LINKS/RESOURCES

• https://stephaniemariehowe.com/about/
• https://trainright.com/nutrition/

HOST
Adam Pulford has been a CTS Coach for nearly two decades and holds a B.S. in Exercise Physiology. He's participated in and coached hundreds of athletes for endurance events all around the world.

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