| Cycling diet is often overlooked by many cyclists, yet it | | | | ingredients'. A natural diet will involve more effort but is |
| is essential to maintain your health and fitness and in | | | | worth it for the returns you will get in higher energy |
| giving your body the right nutrients it needs to recover | | | | levels and a more robust immune system. |
| from heavy training sessions. If you're going out on a | | | | Avoid fast foods, sugary pop drinks and instant meals |
| long training run then ensuring you have the right | | | | which are full of fat and sugar. Your cycling diet should |
| cycling diet is important. You need to be sure you have | | | | be based on fresh fruit and vegetables, lean meat and |
| enough energy inside you to complete your training | | | | nuts. Balance is also crucial. Make sure your cycling |
| session. | | | | diet includes a good balance of the right food groups. |
| Fuel up before your training session, carry something | | | | Carbohydrates, healthy fat products, protein and |
| to eat during it and you need to eat after the session | | | | vitamins. A diet rich in these nutrients and well balanced |
| to allow your body to recover from the hard work you | | | | will not only improve your cycling but will give you a |
| have just put it through. A good cycling diet will | | | | great health boost generally. If you are using cycling to |
| facilitate all these things. Another good point is about | | | | lose weight don't skip meals. You need to keep |
| weight loss. If you are cycling to lose weight then | | | | enough energy stored to get through your training |
| forget about the bathroom scales as your monitor and | | | | sessions. Skipping meals is a mistake. Just drop all the |
| use body fat monitors instead. | | | | sugary rubbish and replace it with fresh foodstuffs. |
| This is because cycling reduces fat and builds muscles. | | | | This along with hard cycle training will be enough to get |
| Muscle is heavier than fat, so if you use the scales to | | | | rid of those excess pounds. |
| monitor your progress you will not see much drop in | | | | Look at your cycling diet as important as your bike and |
| weight as the fat is reduced but the muscle increases. | | | | clothing in your cycling training. Get the balance of diet |
| Using body fat monitors will give you a truer picture of | | | | and training right and you will soon reap the benefits of |
| your fat shedding progress. Your cycling diet should be | | | | increased endurance and improved health. |
| based on good quality foods based on fresh | | | | |