Athlete Nutrition Coach

It’s been our pleasure supporting Inspired Cycling athlete Des Woods over the past few years, as he has achieved multiple Irish titles in both road and cyclo-cross events.

ANCxDesWoods 👊🏼

How to fuel like an elite athlete.

Most athletes focus on the training.

Elite athletes focus on what allows them to get the most from the training.

That means matching carbohydrate intake to the demands of the session, recovering properly afterwards and supporting adaptation with proven supplements like Essential Aminos, X-Cell Nucleotides and CreGAAtine.

This is exactly how a top cyclist fuels around a two hour training day.

Comment START to start your nutrition programme and unlock your next level of performance.

Most athletes have no idea this is affecting them.

Getting better and being fully recovered are two completely different things. Most athletes reach the first one and assume they have reached the second. They have not. Because while the immune system was down the gut was going through something that rest and food alone will never fully reverse.

The frustrating part is it does not always feel obvious. It shows up as energy that never quite comes back. Recovery that takes longer than it should. Performance that plateaus no matter what changes are made. A body that just does not respond the way it used to. And because nothing looks obviously wrong on paper it gets put down to overtraining or age or just having a bad run of form.

But the gut does not lie. And when we actually test it properly the picture becomes very clear very quickly. Every period of illness, stress, poor sleep and underfuelling leaves a mark. And that mark stays there until it is properly identified and addressed.

That is exactly what the GI Map does.

Comment ‘GI Map’ for a free 15min chat with our lead nutritionist to get started.