The Optimized Triathlete

11/06/2018

Wondering if anyone has tried the habit nest nutrition or meditation journal? I'm trying to win one!!! I love the morning one.

If you’re serious about self-improvement, this package will change your life.

11/05/2018

Just went for my first bike since September of 2015. Wow. Hard to believe. Unfortunately, I know more now than I did then about lots of things including toxins in skin care and cosmetics. Just realized that my usually bum rub has fragrance and a couple of other things on the BC never list in it. Does anyone use a safer option? Maybe coconut oil?

25/03/2018

https://bengreenfieldfitness.com/article/low-carb-ketogenic-diet-articles/low-carb-triathlon-training/

Discover whether you can use low carb triathlon training for Ironman triathlon and still be fast, in Ben Greenfield's Great Ketogenic Ironman Experiment.

20/03/2018

https://nypost.com/2018/03/19/heres-how-to-crush-a-race-by-running-on-a-keto-diet/

Maybe that carbo-load is really full of bull. I was pretty confident that a low-carb diet would help me to a fast finish at the United NYC Half Marathon on Sunday – but I wasn’t expecting to …

16/01/2018

Love this!

Four amateur British rowers have smashed an endurance race record by rowing across the Atlantic in just over 29 days - five days quicker than the previous record. The London-based team was among 25 teams racing the three thousand miles from the Canary Islands to Antigua in the Caribbean. The…

06/11/2017

New research on the performance benefits of low carbohydrate, Ketogenic diets.

Background: Low-carbohydrate diets have recently grown in popularity among endurance athletes, yet little is known about the long-term (>4 wk) performance implications of consuming a low-carbohydrate high fat ketogenic diet (LCKD) in well-trained athletes.

Conclusions: Compared to a HC comparison group, a 12-week period of keto-adaptation and exercise training, enhanced body composition, fat oxidation during exercise, and specific measures of performance relevant to competitive endurance athletes.

Low-carbohydrate diets have recently grown in popularity among endurance athletes, yet little is known about the long-term (>4 wk) performance implications of consuming a low-carbohydrate high fat ketogenic diet (LCKD) in well-trained athletes.

31/10/2017

25/10/2017

Seems so obvious. Why is this not mainstream???

"A high-carbohydrate, high-insulin-producing diet leads to daily fluctuations in energy, appetite, and mood; lifelong insidious accumulation of excess body fat (because you are bad at burning fat and are really good at storing fat, due to chronically excessive insulin production); a state of chronic inflammation in the body; and widespread cellular damage from glycation. Chronic inflammation, glycation, and oxidative damage are the essence of epidemic disease and accelerated aging in modern life." - Mark Sisson

24/10/2017

What is your favorite pre-workout fuel?

17/10/2017

Hot off the press! Keto for cancer treatment (and prevention)!

10/10/2017

These crackers are great! 7 g of carbs for 10 crackers. A perfect afternoon snack with some cheese!