As discussed in How To Plan Your Triathlon or Endurance Sport Season, triathlon training should follow a periodized approach where workouts get more race-like as your endurance event gets closer. Just as training is periodized in endurance athletes, nutrition should be periodized ...

So, let’s say you’ve already picked out a race from our extensive list, now you have to start working on your nutrition. What you eat and when you eat before an endurance race or workout can have a direct impact ...

A few weeks back, we received a note from one of the folks at EnduroPacks. They’ve got a pretty interesting idea here; EnduroPacks has created a mixture of products specifically designed to help you meet the demands of serious training. ...

One of the great things about being in this business is getting our hands on new products before they are released to the public. A few weeks after we received the test samples from Rokit Fuel, we received an unsolicited ...

We hate running late with our reviews, but the past two weeks have been a blur.  Last weekend we participated in the Palmetto200, an endurance relay from Columbia to Charleston.  Pretty fun stuff.  The bad new is that put us ...

It’s been a little more than a year since we published our first comparison of energy gels.  For the past two weeks, we’ve been testing GU Roctane, advertised as an ultra performance energy gel. Roctane is based on GU’s regular ...

Great product with a creative delivery. Very chalky, though, which could turn off some users. Much more stable than premixing Prepetuem

Just about anyone who’s ever participated in a triathlon has tried HEED from Hammer Nutrition.  HEED is Hammer’s electrolyte drink and is a common feature at most well organized tris due to it’s performance and Hammer’s sponsorship efforts.  The folks ...

Sorry for the delay in getting this review out to our readers, our IKEA kitchen adventure took a bit longer than expected. After a week of using Fluid Recovery drink during our half ironman training plan, we’ve learned quite a ...

In the second installment of our Recovery Drink Review Series, today we turn to Fluid Recovery drink.  A special thanks to Richard at LiveFluid for the samples. Background on Fluid and NEHP: Fluid Recovery is manufactured by Nutritional Energetics and ...