Triathlon Nutrition & Hydration
Fuelling the fire, with Nadezhda Pavlova
Triathlon is the ultimate event for endurance, and it requires the right nutrition and hydration to fuel the fire through all transitions. When you cross that finishing line, you need to know that you’ve given it everything, and your body needs the right fuel at the right time, to ensure maximum effort is matched with maximum performance.
As a former international standard triathlete and triathlon coach, Nadezhda knows exactly how important it is to find a nutrition plan that matches your own requirements and needs. We’re all unique, and we operate slightly differently. Our bodies require plans that are as unique as we are, whilst adhering to some basic issues. Hydration is particularly important, because if you wait until you’re thirsty, then it’s already too late. Thankfully, Nadezhda has used her years of competition and coaching experience to bring together a series of blogs, each focusing on key elements to help you to create your own triathlon nutrition plan. It deals with issues such as the best supplements for endurance athletes, to post-event nutrition and recovery.
Take a look at the selection of blogs below, and let Nadezhda help to guide you on your own endurance sport journey.
Training for triathlon, like any sport can improve the level of physical fitness, but first you need to remove all unnecessary obstacles. After a stressful exercise with a high load, your form will be much worse than before the start of the lesson. This is easy to notice if you try to repeat it again immediately after completing the exercise. If the load level is acceptable, and the exercise is followed by rest, your body will recover in a few hours or a couple of days, and as a result, physical fitness will become a little better. This principle is called “overcompensation.” 😉 Let’s train for triathlon together then, using the triathlon training advice on our website and make sure that you don’t overtrain. I’ll guide you to be better able to develop your own unique triathlon training plan, as you discover your own limits – and beat them!
Repeated overcompensation, aimed at improving physical fitness, becomes effective only when you apply the right overload at the right time 🙂 Knowing what an optimal load is and when to apply it is one aspect of the art of training. Science can point the right way, but you must yourself, through trial and error, determine what exactly is acceptable to you.
The articles and information that we’ll provide you with, will allow you to properly structure your own triathlon training plans, as we establish and seek out our triathlon limits together 🙂
Nadezhda
