Road cycling nutrition

Explore our lecture series on “Road cycling nutrition” with Gabriel Martins and Professor Asker Jeukendrup. In this 2-part session, the speakers combine applied experience from elite professional cycling with evidence-based sport nutrition to examine how nutrition and hydration strategies are used across training, racing, and recovery. From the day-to-day realities inside a WorldTour team to current hot topics in performance nutrition, the series offers practical insight for coaches, practitioners, and cyclists.

What we will cover:
    Why do professional cycling teams invest so heavily in nutrition?
    
How are nutrition strategies organised within an elite road cycling team?
    
What does effective nutrition look like across Grand Tour stages and time trials?
    
What does the latest evidence say about ketones and bicarbonate?
    
How can practitioners manage common challenges such as GI issues?
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Speakers

2

Number of lectures

2

Video time

90

Magazines

0

Tests

1

Gabriel Martins

Gabriel works as a performance nutritionist at the World Tour cycling team Visma Lease a Bike. He studied at the European University of Madrid where he obtained a masters degree in sports nutrition. Gabriel also had a popular Podcast Fuel the pedal and invited some great speakers onto his podcast. He got to 40+ episodes when Isreal premier tech scooped him up. He then joined Visma Lease a bike a couple of years later. Gabriel is now one of the forces in the nutrition team of Visma Lease a bike.
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Professor Asker Jeukendrup

Professor Asker Jeukendrup is one of the world’s leading sports nutritionists and exercise physiologist who spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Birmingham (UK) as Head of The Human Performance Laboratory. Currently he is a (visiting) professor at Loughborough University. He has authored 9 books and over 250 research papers and book chapters. During his career Asker has worked at the forefront of research as well as directly with athletes, including Olympic and World champions, Tour de France cyclists and Champions league football teams.

After many years of working at Universities, Asker accepted a position as the Global Senior Director of the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. At present he is the director of his own performance consulting business “Mysportscience”, and worked or works with a number of football clubs (including FC Barcelona, Chelsea, Red Bull Leipzig, Red Bull Saltzburg and PSV Eindhoven). He is head of performance nutrition of the Red Bull Athlete Performance Center, and Performance Manager of Nutrition for the Dutch Olympic team.
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