PURE PERFORMANCE | GO FASTER
YOUR NUTRITION
STRATEGY PART III
BY DARRYL GRIFFITHS
Multisport Magazine welcomes back author of Sweat. Think. Go Faster.
Darryl Griffiths writes about his experience with race day nutrition. Griffiths
has helped hundreds of athletes to create their customised nutrition
program and over the next three issues he will help you create yours.
A
question I have been asked many times over
the years is: Why haven’t I published any of
these studies? The simple answer is that any
study or published article on sports nutrition
relates only to the subjects in the test. It relates to the
individual’s unique physiological makeup, the intensity,
duration and the environmental conditions the test
was performed in. The study relates to the individual’s
unique digestive system and their stomach’s unique
limitations when it comes to the volume of fluid and
amount of calories their stomach can process.
Put simply, whatever information you gather from
a published article on sports nutrition doesn’t mean a
thing unless you were a participant in that particular
study and that particular study is only relevant to the
conditions the test was performed in, any changes
outside this alters the results. Fact is I would have to
publish twenty separate articles on the information I
gathered from one test and 20 separate articles from
the other test because they all provided different
outcomes. There are too many variables to consider; to
publish an article on sports nutrition and honestly think
it’s going to benefit everyone is a big call.
For those of you who are active for long periods
of time it’s likely you will encounter a range of
temperatures and by using the examples above you
can see how your hydration strategy (volume and
concentration of fluid) will change during different
times of the day as the environmental conditions
change. This will require that you alter the volume of
fluid that you consume so you don’t compromise your
stomach by drinking too much in cooler conditions, b