Carbohydrate loading, more commonly known as ‘carb loading’, is an important nutrition strategy used by endurance athletes to improve their performance on race day – especially if that race is a ...

Scientifically speaking, carbohydrates are the most efficient source of energy production. ‘By definition, carbohydrate loading – or carb loading for short – is when we are trying to optimise our ...

Athletes participating in elite sports are exposed to high training loads and increasingly saturated competition calendars. Emerging evidence indicates that poor load management is a major risk factor ...

Whether you’re a first-time marathon runner, or you’ve got multiple medals hanging on your wall, there’s one thing all marathoners want to feel (other than injury-free) when they get to that start ...