Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Pre-race Low-Carbohydrate Glycogen Super-Compensation
During my PhD, I did one particular study in which I had highly trained athletes eat both a high carb diet and an ultra-low carbohydrate diet (similar to the ketogenic or Atkins diet) for 14 days. Two striking results came out of this study. Result Number One After almost two weeks of <80g of carbohydrate…
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Ironman Training Advice
Starting Point First and foremost, a good starting point is to figure out a realistic time goal for each leg of the race. These goals should be based on a couple of points: Previous Races Look at your past triathlon results and find someone who has finished near you in each leg and who you…
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The Science of the Long Run
The long run is a staple of any ultramarathon training plan, but there is also the “longest run”. But what is long? The long run is a staple of any ultramarathon training plan, but there is also the “longest run”. The longest run is “the big one” that is meant to test your physical and…
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Dr Will’s 5 W’s for Carbohydrate Intake
Who, what, when, where, and why Who Endurance athletes, men and women, exercising for one hour or more. Athletes that are trying to get the best out of themselves in a given training session or race. Triathlon, kayaking, swimming, mountain biking, cycling, running, walking and any other endurance activity. What Carbohydrates are referred to as…
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Burning Fat Vs Burning Carbohydrate: A Flawed Argument
The title of my PhD thesis is “Metabolic Flexibility and Endurance Performance”. The term Metabolic Flexibility is one that not a lot of people have heard in regards to the Fat Vs Carbohydrate debate. Here I’d like to introduce the reader to why you can’t use carbohydrate or fat, you must and always will use…
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Improve Your Training Series- Slow Down
Do you find yourself validating a good session with average pace, power or peak heart rate? Do you find that even though you’re pushing yourself harder and harder, you don’t seem to be getting any faster? https://youtu.be/RLnVP_4VnU0 Stop training so hard. Do you find yourself validating a good session with average pace, power or peak…
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Tired of Training? – Reset Yourself
If you have been suffering from a training plateau, tiredness, lack of motivation or injury you are in some form of overtraining. Overtraining is caused by too much high-intensity training and/or too little recovery time which is often combined with other non-training stressors (work, family, life!). If overtraining is caught early it can be quickly…
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Women Endurance Athletes and Carbohydrate
Women Aren’t Men A quick search of google for “endurance nutrition” will bring up an array of feeding and supplementation protocols all centred around one common theme; you need carbohydrate for optimal endurance performance. Despite doing extensive research on low carbohydrate exercise performance, I’m not going to argue with the concept of carbs = performance.…
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Never Let a Crisis go to Waste. Are You Training Efficiently?
Now the COVID-19 dust has settled, there’s no excuse for not having a plan or a goal for your training. Races in the near term are cancelled, so you’re left with three options;
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Endurance Rewards Consistency. How a Training Plan Can Help You
Here are four mistakes that are common to all endurance athletes. Becoming a better endurance athlete takes time. There are a few mistakes that are common to all endurance athletes. Without a training plan, you’re more likely to make mistakes that seem like a good idea at the time but end up having long term…
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