Impact & Provenance
Recovery nutrition for endurance athletes: protein, fluids and race planning
Race-day recovery is shaped before the start line. Recovery nutrition for endurance athletes centres on replacing carbohydrate and fluid losses while supplying protein to support repair; after exer...
4 Endurance Nutrition Mistakes That Can Disrupt Your Fueling
Four common endurance nutrition mistakes are mismatching energy intake to training load, poorly timing meals around workouts, unbalancing carbohydrates, protein and fat, and overlooking how glucose...
Food and fuel amounts for an ultramarathon
Carbohydrate is the main fuelling target: for an ultramarathon lasting over three hours, aim for 60–90 g per hour, using different carbohydrate sources when you take in more than 60 g. A practical ...
Common Marathon Fuelling Mistakes 2026: A Bio-Analytical Checklist for Elite Performance
The prevailing assumption that marathon failure stems from a mere deficit of calories is a fundamental misunderstanding of high-performance physiology; in reality, most performance plateaus are the...
Maurten Alternative: Why Natural Honey Matrices Outperform Synthetic Hydrogels
The prevailing assumption that synthetic hydrogel technology represents the absolute zenith of endurance nutrition is being systematically dismantled by emerging bio-analytical research. While many...
Bio-Analytical Fuelling Guide for NZ Trail Runners
The persistent reliance on synthetic, maltodextrin-heavy carbohydrate sources as the foundational nutrition for trail runners NZ remains a primary catalyst for systemic gastrointestinal distress an...
Intra-Workout Carbohydrate Fueling: A Scientific Protocol for Endurance Athletes
The traditional approach to endurance nutrition often fails because it treats the human gastrointestinal tract as a simple vessel rather than a complex bio-analytical interface. Many athletes accep...
Liquid Energy Gels: Buyer’s Guide for Endurance Athletes
The traditional reliance on synthetic maltodextrin polymers in endurance nutrition represents a fundamental misunderstanding of gastrointestinal transport capacity and metabolic resilience. Most at...
The Biological Advantages of Honey in Energy Gels for Endurance Performance
The prevailing reliance on synthetic maltodextrin in sports nutrition ignores a fundamental biological reality: the human digestive system wasn't designed to process isolated, high-load polymers wi...