The Simplest Nutrition Upgrade That Will Make You Faster.

What if the single biggest nutritional difference between a professional cyclist and the rest of us wasn’t how many grams of carbohydrate they take on per hour during a race?

What if it was something far simpler, and far more actionable, than that?

What if the pros just do a much better job of eating more on the days they train hard, and less on the days they don’t!?

It sounds almost too obvious to be interesting. But the data behind this idea is striking, and it points to something that most recreational riders are quietly getting wrong, week after week, without ever realising it.

Download paper here.