Beginner Triathlete - Diet & Nutrition articles

Fidgeting, not a 'slow metabolism,' may help explain why your just-as-active peers can eat more and not gain weight.

Solid nutrition principles for those not wanting to put a lot of thought into eating healthy.

Our nutrition writer sums up the latest findings

Although you cannot change your genetics and your tendency to fidget, you can boost your calorie intake. Here are five tips to help you bulk-up healthfully.

Myths and Tips about the Role of Bread in a Triathlete's Diet

While carbo-loading sounds simple (just stuff yourself with pasta, right?), the truth is that many endurance athletes make food mistakes that hurt their performance.

What's best to eat for recovery after a hard workout? How many carbohydrates do you need? Do you need protein? What about electrolytes?

Learn the principles on how to lose weight and keep it off. These 10 commandments will help keep you at a healthy weight for life.

Does alcohol have a place in your endurance sports nutrition plan?

Top experts in triathlon nutrition answer your common training and race day nutrition questions.

Time and again, athletes repeatedly ask questions about sugar, protein, supplements, caffeine, carbs, recovery, and body fat. These answers will help you resolve confusing nutrition issues.

The same athletes who worry about event-day fueling often neglect their day to day training diet. The question this article answers is, “What should I eat before, during and after I train?”

In this day and age of energy bars, protein powders and weight gain shakes, many athletes forget about “real" foods such as peanut butter. Peanut butter is perhaps the best sport food around.

In this era of over-abundant processed foods, I contend that eating cooked beans enhances intake of a variety of important vitamins and minerals for athletes.

Losing fat is not difficult. So why does this continue to be an elusive goal for so many people, who “struggle” just to lose a few inches?