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Quick summary: ⚡ Carbohydrate loading = increasing carbohydrates 36–72h before a long race to saturate glycogen stores. 🍝 Official recommendation: 8–12 g of carbohydrates/kg/day for 2–3 days (pasta, rice, white bread, compotes). ✅ Effects: better...

Quick summary: 🥾 A multi-day trek requires a suitable nutritional strategy: energy, practicality, recovery. ⚡ Objective: to cover >3000 kcal/day, with a good weight/energy ratio and intake of carbohydrates + lipids. 🍫 Dried fruits, bars,...

Quick summary: ✅ Eating well before exercise replenishes your reserves and optimizes your performance. ⚠️ The meal should be easily digestible, rich in complex carbohydrates and low in fat. ❌ Avoid heavy, high-fiber or new...

Quick summary: ✅ In ultra-running, nutrition is a central strategy: you have to nourish your body as much as you push it. ⚡ Recommended intake: 60 to 90 g of carbohydrates/hour, with a mix of...

Quick summary: ✅ Fasted training promotes fat utilization and can improve basic endurance. ⚠️ No magic effect on weight loss or overall performance. ❌ To be avoided for long, intense, or technical efforts and activities....

Whether you're running your first trail run or aiming for an ultra race, your diet will play a key role in your performance, endurance, and enjoyment. Eating better means running better. Here's a simple guide,...

We believe it is essential to create a state of health conducive to the development of physical qualities and metabolic adaptations. The role of nutrition in sports practice is to provide satisfactory responses to nutritional...

Meeting micronutrient needs is essential, and to do so, you must be an active participant in shaping your diet. Modern diets, with their growing methods and health constraints, have become impoverished and can, as we...

Their importance for physical activity is such that athletes often consume far too much of them. Unlike carbohydrates and lipids, the body has no way of storing proteins. Therefore, consuming them beyond what is needed...

We recommend limiting foods high in trans fats as much as possible. They are, in any case, poor sources of lipids.

For example, it was customary in football clubs to eat pasta and mashed potatoes as a pre-match meal. An unsuitable menu if ever there was one. Consuming these two high-GI foods before exercise put the...

Thinking about food solely through the prism of energy quantity means missing out on all the metabolic functions that do not require energy, but which require fundamental elements, called "essential" and which we call micronutrients.