wise athletes podcast #171 | Managing Glucose for Athletes | Hunter Allen, Peaks Coaching Group
Aug 1, 2025
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Hunter Allen Bio:
Hunter Allen, ex-pro cyclist, coach and author has recently authored “Training and Competing with a Continuous Glucose Monitor”. Hunter is best known for his work with power meters and for developing the power training principles. He’s the co-author of “Training and Racing with a Power Meter”, along with “Cutting Edge Cycling” and “Triathlon: Training with Power”. Hunter was one of the co-developers of TrainingPeaks WKO software and a co-founder of TrainingPeaks. He founded and currently operates The Peaks Coaching Group.
Key Ideas:
- Managing blood glucose is not only important for health and longevity, it impacts athletic performance in real time
- Wearing a CGM provides access to the raw data needed to manage glucose via diet, feed schedule, activity
- For athletic performance, keeping blood glucose in the high performance zone means no bonking or premature fatigue.
Episode Resources
- Hunter's Coaching Website -- PeaksCoachingGroup.com
- CGM Book Website - TrainingandCompetingwithaCGM.com
Key Discussion Points:
- Discover how and why seeing your continuous blood glucose with a CGM in real time will give you an edge in your sport with the ability to:
- Optimize the timing of nutrition intake (for exercise, for sleep…?)
- Determine the correct serving of foods to positively impact energy levels
- Understand the proper type of foods to use to “prime” your system before training or an event (“top off glycogen stores” without causing hypo-glycemic rebound?)
- Recognize patterns of poor nutrition and correct them (food combos, volume of fast carbs)
- Learn your blood glucose highs and lows throughout the day to correct them for better glucose stability (why correct them?)
- And so much more
Related episodes & links:
- Episode 87 | Zeroing in on Fun AND Fitness part 2 of 2 | Hunter Allen
- Episode 86 | Make Training Fun for Better Performance part 1 of 2 Hunter Allen
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*This content is never meant to serve as medical advice.