Fueling Your Run with Whole Foods: Does it Work?
By: Doug Hay
Many plant-based athletes face a rather tough dilemma during endurance efforts:
Do we center our workout nutrition around clean, whole plant-based foods, which we can rely on to go down easy and sound appealing?
Or should we utilize the processed, artificially flavored, lab crafted goos and gummies engineered specifically for performance?
And more importantly, are we placing ourselves at a disadvantage if we don’t rely on energy products?
As the world of endurance sports has exploded over the past few decades, so too has the market for sports fueling products. But the draw to fuel with natural, simple foods will always remain.
So how you do decide which path to take, and whether or not to treat racing any differently than training? (more…)
