5+2 Moath-Long distance supplies

Dec 10, 2014

by 226ERS #FeedYourDreams

Rodrigo Rorro Moath, athlete, writer and tester of sports and sports products, gives us 5+2 tips on how to face the long -distance supplies.

The nutrition in the tests is very important and if we talk about long distances it becomes critical because It is practically impossible to end without having resorted to supplementary food during them. There are a thousand theories, studies, proposals and products, some founded, justified and more or less demonstrated and, others, are mere beliefs, myths or misrepresentations, in many cases completely wrong. The issue of nutrition, food, supplies, etc. It has a kind of "inaccurate science" that does not depend only on physiology, biology, etc. "Laboratory", but must adapt to each individual and their peculiarities. And, moreover, even having the more or less clear schemes for a specific athlete, it is most likely to particularize For each concrete situation. But do not worry, do not come down because, although there are no "immutable and infallible laws", there are many General principles that can help us and that, although we do not have the certainty of hitting, they can help minimize the probability of making mistakes. That said, here are a list with 5 + 2 Moath - Tips where the first five are small general recommendations and, the last two would consider them rather axioms or premises:

1. Do not accept anything "because yes", without having tried it for yourself.

Read, study, listen and learn from those who know, from studies that are published in reputed sources, from the experience of people you know and who know what it does, etc., but Try it first, experience and look to see how it works for you. As much as they have demonstrated something in a million studies, It doesn't have to do well to you or be the best for you.

2. Try everything you can.

Do not only know a single product, flavor, format or ingredient. Whenever you see something new that you do not know and that you think it can work, Take it and try it To see how it works for you because you never know when it can appear A good tool for your “nutrition kit”.

3. Make the “Test - Error - Learning” your modus operandi.

Test, test and try again. You will fail a thousand times and in some of them you will be hit so that the key is that you try to straighten the course little by little based on what you observe and feeling.

4. Express little by little, modifying things one by one.

If you touch many at the same time, you do not know what has worked and what does not try to go testing piece by piece.

5. Believe conclusions taking into account all possible factors.

Do not have tunnel vision, open your mind and think about everything around and everything you have been able to have influence In what you have tried or experienced: temperature, form of form, previous fatigue, interaction with other things, etc. What happened to you (good or bad) is it due to how new you have introduced? Or could have Something else What also had something to do to make the effect greater / minor? Do not forget that We are a whole and that all the pieces are interrelated, that it is not possible to touch one in isolation without collateral effects in others.

5+1. It is meticulous but adaptable.

Try, learn, Define your own nutritional strategies And take it all prepared with a luxury detail but, be careful, that we are not machines and, even if we were, there are countless external imponderables that may vary with what We will always have a large percentage of uncertainty Regarding how we are going to find ourselves and what we are going to have to face. Therefore, it is very important to learn to adapt on the fly, have plans B (and even plans c) and, the main thing, never lose our composure or get nervous if it is time to move to those auxiliary plans because in the long distance it is part of the game since It is practically impossible for everything to leave from the beginning as we have planned.

5+2. The unique essential is the "clean" water.

Eye, I am not saying that we can go "hair", with nothing more than a cantimplora with water (or that if there are sources or sites to drink) but that I mean that water is something that we will not be able to ignore, that Let's need yes or yes While everything else will depend on the situation. Of course, recommended (and most likely) is that we have to carry more things (salts, energy foods, etc.) but there we have a room for maneuver and, if there is not one type, we will always be able to pull another (Bars, fruit, cakes, apple, ... drinks of one or another flavor, ...) and will work better or worse but, to get out of the way, it can serve us. However, Water is irreplaceable, we need it yes or yes, we put ourselves as we put on what, put to escape by weight or space, should be the last thing we should consider to eliminate or limit in our “kit”. #FEEDYOURDREAMS