Coach's Corner

We all need individual carbohydrate calculators if you want to dial in your nutrition intake during exercise.  The recommendation on back of packages are vague and can be inaccurate. Further, when your fat burning is taken into consideration, this can reduce the need for carbohydrate depending on what zone you are looking at. 

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of consuming a drink mix or gel containing CHO with sodium alginate and pectin on performance, oxygen consumption, rate of perceived exertion, blood glucose and lactate concentration, and respiratory exchange ratio (RER), and GI distress during a cycling or walking/running 60-minute steady state test followed by a ramp incremental test.