Road cycling nutrition

In this live webinar on ‘Road cycling nutrition’, Gabriel Martins (Visma | Lease a Bike) and Prof Asker Jeukendrup (Red Bull BORA-hansgrohe) will share evidence-based insights and practical applications of nutrition and hydration strategies in elite road cycling.

In this 2-part session, Gabriel Martins will outline why pro cycling teams invest so heavily in nutrition, how it is organised within a pro team, and the key focus areas from daily routines and energy demands to race-day fuelling and recovery strategies. Topics include optimising body composition, fuelling across Grand Tour stages, time trial-specific nutrition, and managing logistics from meal prep to recalculating plans based on real-time data. Prof Asker Jeukendrup will then address current hot topics, such as extreme carbohydrate fuelling, ketone supplementation, plant-based proteins, bicarbonate use, lactate as a fuel, and the optimal glucose–fructose ratio.

The webinar will conclude with a joint Q&A, answering participant-submitted questions on gut training, hydration and sodium needs, recovery drink composition, protein timing, GI issues, nutritional periodisation across a Grand Tour, and the role of nutrition in sleep optimisation.

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Watch live on Wednesday 13 August at 16:00 CET.

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Gabriel Martins and Asker Jeukendrup.

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In this 2-part webinar, Gabriel Martins and Asker Jeukendrup will discuss novel nutrition and hydration strategies, including insights from strategies implemented by Grand Tour teams. The talks will focus on emerging nutrition trends in professional cycling. Specifically, the speakers will explore the daily energy demands of road cycling, strategies for recovery with multi-day events, and advanced strategies for world-class performance.

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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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