Behind the Scenes of Tour de France Nutrition with Iñigo San Millán - CoachCast Season 6 Ep 8

[@josemiguelarias9769]

Awesome

[@glenrenaud9465]

How does this apply to masters endurance racers? Especially 65 and older?

[@trainingpeaks]

One key takeaway is the periodization of fueling based on the efforts the day of and going forward and making sure to eat enough carbs and other macros. Another is, making sure to figure out how much you are burning during your efforts and how many carbs you should be using per hour to maintain your performance. To support this you'll need to do some gut training to make sure your systems are used to the potentially higher than expected levels of carbs per hour. You can learn more about gut training and carbs per hour here: www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/how-to-train-your-gut-for-high-carbohydrate-intake/ Hope that helps.

[@kimwrinkle100]

Thank you, Dirk and Inigo! Very informative!

[@patrickschilke7690]

What do you look at exactly on TP to know how many carbs and fat was burned?

[@trainingpeaks]

To see this data within TrainingPeaks you will first need to be using a power meter (for running too) with your zones properly set. From there, after an activity or workout, in the summary you will see a row for "Work" and it will be displayed as kJ or kilojoules. You can also build a graph in your Dashboard using the kJ chart (Premium feature). Kilojoules will be roughly the number of calories burned, there isn't a way to determine your carb vs. fat burn within TrainingPeaks currently. There's some complex math that goes into the energy created from kJ but then there's an efficiency factor in how your body burns kJs. This is an older blog post (we're working on an update) that gives you at least some background on the process. www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/how-accurate-is-that-calorie-reading/

[@PerryScanlon]

Behind the scenes?

[@trainingpeaks]

Most teams prefer to not reveal clear details on how and what they are doing to keep their riders ready to perform for each stage at the Tour. What else would you like to know?