CYCLING ENERGY BARS - WASTE OF MONEY?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- are cycling energy bars a waste of money? Nutritionist Will Girling explains all. Check out Will here: willgirling.com/
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Q&A will be a separate video entirely. Too much footage to leave it as one video so stay tuned for tomorrow's upload if you asked Will a question.
Off to get a bag of icing sugar to snort on my rides 👃🏻👀... looking forward to part 2 👌🏻
I wholeheartedly agree with this return/recovery approach.
My FTP was 344w, I was crashed in a ‘race’ and destroyed the right hand side of my body. After hospital and months off work I started back up on Zwift and the 2nd or 3rd session in did an FTP test.... of 150w.
I don’t know what was more crushed, my ego at that point or my collapsed lung and multitude of smashed up bones immediately after the crash.
Francis you said exactly what was going to drive me insane if no one mentioned it in regards to VO2 max. So many think it’s a direct reflection of fitness person to person when it is nearly irrelevant - 2 people with the same VO2 max could have drastically different race results. Thank you for itching that scratch for me :)
If Will got injured that badly by the lorry. What happened to the lorry was it written off?
Great nutritional tips tho from Will... Love the icing tip 😂
lorry, totaled!
Thank you again Francis simply the best cycling channel on You Tube !
Thank you for the video. It is refreshing the way you let the guy talk without interruption. Something that people forget these days. Cant wait too see your new bike.
I can identify with Will about eating sweets as a multiple iron man winner from Canada (Heather Fuhr ) was rumored to eat nothing but copious amounts of gummy bears on her long bike portion ..180km of her ironman man..heck in the total race
The crack on the Cervelo R2 frame is a known issue with the bike. I had exactly the same crack on mine last January and within a couple weeks Cervelo replaced the frame with a 2018 R3 for nothing!
Right. Eating icing tomorrow cos Will said so.
LOL not a bad choice in winter tbh!! But do clean your teeth after hahaha
70.6!?!? I only know of one female cyclist (Evelyn Stevens) with a higher VO2 max. Jess should quit tomorrow and start doing 25hr weeks 😂
We need to see more of Jess cycling. She seems to be the athlete of the bunch. Make it happen!
I loved the nutrition chat
When Will says "Alex Richardson is on it" cracked me bru! 😅
Love George's way of speaking/articulating and his commitment when he's explaining the test !
Great info here,thanks.
Question for Will: What do you think of homemade oatbars/flapjack for fueling?
Great content, let's have more from this man. He speaks clearly & simply, very practical. Maybe some more recipes??
QandA coning soon. Also made a 30 minute video with him a few videos back!
360p club. Because we can't wait for TH-cam to finish encoding. I've got an ultra marathon relay this weekend (yes I run, don't tell anyone) and will be glamping on bourbon and cupcakes, but during serious competition I've stuck to gels and balls of gloop (date, banana, cashew butter mushed together and coated in coconut), because of portability and because they seem to have roughly the max amount of carbs and sugars I can process while bouncing around.
2:43 Will is like bring it on
What happened to mentioning Kendal Mint Cake ? British cyclists and climbers have been consuming it for over fifty years !
Well, that's my ride fuelling plan sorted. Top top tips 👌🏼
It must be awesome to have friends who are trained professionals. The information share is fantastic.
Two 750ml bidons one with an electrolyte tab & a Berocca tab & one with 4 table spoons of brown sugar water, also a banana or two, sod the gels & bars not as effective as nature already provides & 10 times the price.
Nutrition is a weird thing, In our club we have a 71 year old ex cat 1 racer who's had chemo for lung cancer, on Saturday he does 70 miles on a toasted tea cake and a pot of tea and does not carry a drink bottle. He's on the front most of the time pushing it. How does he do that !!!
years of conditioning his body?
Wow! That's amazing!
Sounds similar to John Woodburn. He was in his 70s and could still ride the wheels off anyone once he was in the metronome mode. Seemed to have an ability to switch off all feelings of being tired, thirsty, hungry; never show weakness. Anecdote from a club ride in 30'C temperatures while everyone else was wilting and he was riding along with no bidon or anything, utterly unconcerned. Offered a drink, he nodded, took the bottle, drank it all, handed it back and just carried on.
That generation also swore by baked rice pudding as race food. Cooked the night before into a solid cake, cut up and wrapped individually.
@@AndrewSmall963 pro teams still use rice cakes
Like you say years of hard racing and conditioning. They needed to be i suppose with the sort of bikes they rode.
The take home message I took from this is that if the ride quite intense and long you need to fuel regularly as you can only get in 400 cals of carbs per hour max. As a relative novice even I can chew through 600 cals per hour easily. Food for thought (pun intended).
Damn that chest not aero
pls confirm if nerds are good for rides i used to have them when i was young! nice info on mixing up sources of sugars and calories
Since your battery unfortunately died Francis and left us with a cliffhanger let me spoil the ending . Nerds consist of nether fat or protein . At 14 grams you are consuming 60 calories and is at 5% of your daily carbohydrate consumption . Check the label and see if I am right . I am not a doctor or an expert like Will I just know how google works ..
Just flagging those with fructose malabsorption, need a ratio of 2:1 sucrose to fructose to avoid GI issues. As people age they all lose the ability to process fructose … so if you’re older maybe don’t go for the icing sugar!
Just purchased some shares for a MarshMellow concern ;-)
wearing headphones on the bike?.. you lot are mad. I love music but i would never wear headphones cycling in London.
I use an isotonic drink and Orten energy Bars, but I take the Bars because I am hungry, so proteins are nice to have because you don't get that fast hungry. For races or something like that Gels are better because you get faster carbohydrates, but I use Bars for Long rides and they are better then anything else.
Srry for my bad english, I am german and not that good in learning other languages.
Was off the radar for a bit. Got a concussion while playing so I had to be off screens as much as possible. All good now so I'm ready to start catching up again ;)
Great to hear real facts about carbs & sugar instead of usual scaremongering about sugar being the cause of all modern health problems!
All people need to remember is there's a time and a place.
Sugar isn't inherently bad, but it absolutely is a large cause of a lot of modern health problems! The problem is that a vast majority of the population aren't doing endurance sports which would justify the amount they're taking in.
John Doe sitting in an office for 40 hours a week doesn't need 30 grams of sugar in his fizzy drink, and certainly not 3 times day.
Does all that mean that Christmas cake is ok?
I know this is 2 years late but it is so surreal hearing my friends band from Tulsa in a UK cycling video. Go Sports! lol
I am a nerd......really great information. ....thanks very much
Used to add raw honey to my water bottle. Also have to experiment with honey, jam, and banana burrito.
Yo, does anyone know what that orange-ish bar is that Will recommended? I have to say that I use Clif bars with great success on the bike, however if there is something supposedly better I'll happily try it out!
Cliff bars are okay bud just high calories with lots of un-warranted fat in it - ultimately it's how you want to spend you calories Stealth and Torq offer decent low fat carb orientated bars
@@WillGirling Cheers Will! I'll look into them. Are either of those that orange one? 👀
@@WillGirling So low fat and low protein, and preferably a mix of carb sources?
@@mattswain552 It was this one www.namedsport.com/en/total-energy-fruit-bar-fruit-tango-35g.html
But I don't know taste or texture which are also important factors - reckon stealth or Torq bars are better
@@thomasallen6858 Yeah ideally you want twice as much glucose to frutose, low fat, low protein (fat and protein add nothing to fuel performance while riding so aren't needed and would be a waste of calories, and really high fat bars will slow digestion)
Watching right now is awesome. ... plus good advice hahaha
Blood on the shoes is hard core. Reminds me that my roadracing motorcycle once had a blood stain (not mine) on the rear wheel.
Any chance I can mix my icing sugar up with a block of marzipan? :D
Always take some nerds on a bike ride sir!🚴🏾♂️🥕🍉🍓
Here's is an interesting question, who is ur target market? Surely its not 1 size fits all? Eg.. I enjoy training for an hour twice a week, weekend are my club easy ride, i try to get atleast 3 hours on sat, maybe 2 hours on Sunday, 5am start. Take water, maybe a banana and a bar if i get hungry (but im already almost done before i feel hungry) what advise for me?
He's so clever
A Stomach Stress calculator or chart is what I need! Off to goooogle...
Interesting conversations....good work!
there was a video on gcn about a company in uk that repairs carbon bikes
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@@cleggycyclist I meant that one th-cam.com/video/k7e004bfHyY/w-d-xo.html
pretty much mullered the duo bar and cliff bar. Very interesting discussion and we could do with more of these. Any comments on the gels that are every where are they any good? I know riders who only use these as fuel.As I do big rides with lots of hills like Struggle Dales and Struggle Moors would real food be the best option rather than gels and bars? Mostly on these rides they offer duo bars and the OTE sports nutritionist states one of these bars is sufficient to fuel for an hour of intense ridingNever really liked the taste but, its always good to get other opinions
@francis cade do your friends also have informative channels to follow ? would love to learn from them as well!
Thanks guys, it was useful!!! 🚴
I do all my bikepacking rides fuelled by chocolate and sausage rolls 👍.
Love the Cold Dark North shirt When are you coming to a place that is really cold like in Montreal ? Was -25C today !
Everywhere has a Cold Dark North bud. Although -25 isn't conducive to a nice zone 2 ride!
@@ColdDarkNorth. Weekend schedule is -20C Even Alpine skiing is very cold for frost byte alert Saw a poor cyclist doing commute this morning Hard core
Interesting mate! Soo, doesn't table sugar bring your energy up fast, then dip lower than before the sugar intake?
So the sugar crashing only happens when you're unable to maintain blood glucose levels - i.e you're bonking - the crash happens if you have carbs (any source) keep exercising and don't have another intake to maintain energy levels
@@WillGirling thanks for the reply! I think I get it?... Like if you forget to fuel properly beforehand, and try to salvage it on the ride with pure sugar, you're probably gonna bonk. But if you fuel good (the day before and leading up) then the table sugar more sort of complements your base of slower carbs
@@cyklatillbahamas Not exactly - it doesn't have to be sugar, any simple carbohydrate is the same even fruit - If you're riding hard you will use carbohydrate - to maintain this you need to eat some - if you only eat it once and keep going hard for a while and start to feel tired again that isn't a "sugar crash" - that just you blood glucose levels being empty and you running on fumes nothing to do with sugar in itself cause that tiredness.
Hope that make more sense now in regards to sugar.
@@WillGirling yes, it does, thanks!
Will 🤓 that man knows his shit
The health food squad is gonna bust you for having all that contraband in a dimly lit room :)
Great info
What kind of test was this? I'm guessing ästrand-test right?
That's the one!
Well I've being doing it wrong haven't I. Very interesting.
Where have you been going wrong?
Thanks Will, Cliff bars have been my go to for ride food for the first 2 hours on a ride.
@@WillGirling Will, whats the best solution ratio of sodium/sugar for active transport for hydration per litre for 68kg or is your body weight irrelevant?
I ride pretty much 50/50 HR zone 3 and 4, with a little zone 2 and 5. I might try confectionary (snakes in Aus) and see how that goes.
@@richardyoung5201 You want a 3-4% Carb solution so 3-4g grams of carbs per 100ml sodium would depend on you sweat rate but at least 400mg per 500ml is a good start
So cycling is really just an excuse to eat sweets - right?
So is glycogen the first feul the body wants to burn and when out of glycogen it goes to fat for extra fuel? Is that right?
My understanding is that it is more to do with the intensity of what you are doing. When you sit around or walk/light spin you are burning mainly fat... it is slow release energy system. As you ramp up the intensity you need that extra energy quickly so you also start burning your stored glycogen on top of the fat burning. When these reserves run out you will not be able to maintain that intensity, hence you bonk and go back to being slow because it is only the fat burning remaining (its more the second glycogen system switches off, rather than switching back to fat).
There are even faster systems like creatine that the body uses for max strength efforts but they don't apply so much to endurance sport as they run out in a few seconds... maybe kick starting a sprint.
The body can also do weird things like turn protein into glucose but it's not a fast system... more for emergencies as your brain needs to run on sugar unless you are in ketosis.
hmmm, digestion rates are different for solid complex carbs, intensity of racing should dictate what you put in your stomach? Gels in water bottles for road racing or slow-release for longer stuff right? fat and protein for longer stuff is welcome...10% of a hard ride is fuelled by muscle protein and increasing greater amounts by fat aren't they?. Just waiting for the Hvmn bar ;-)))
Yeah will did talk about this, longer stuff being over 4 hours warrants more than just icing
Completely the choice of food should reflect the type of race you're doing - from crit, Road race all the way to TCR train with purpose with your nutrition also - I would say the complexity of the carb should reflect the duration and intensity of the race - which is essentially what you're saying, so yes haha. Fat will always give a contribution of energy used the % just changes depending on intensity.
What’s the SP on Kendal Mint Cake?
My boss was run over twice. Every time he gets run over he ends up with a better bike. We've been joking lately that he needs a new bike...
NO OIL.
He cooks and wears his hair in a man bun... I have no problem with that, what matters is what's on the inside. He's very pretty and seems like a nice person. I swing in a different direction, but he will find a wonderful man-husband I'm sure.
John Torode recipe?
Love Will and find him strangely attractive. It's late, I'm tired x
HARIBO - get it in ya
Ken Buckley oh yes!!
Oh man, carbs carbs carbs, where's Mr Sakinofsky when you need him? :)
Not racing ;)
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Does ken recommend flapjacks?
Ashley Easton it depends what’s in the flapjacks
Like a normal home bake flapjack. Just oats, golden syrup and a few raisins.
Muy linda leydi Francisco
I can only watch it in 360p
Because it's only just been uploaded
Ok, perfect! Love the vids such an inspiration!
Always method in the madness.
those shoes are grim pls clean or change
I really should haha
@@WillGirling Nah you shouldnt. I still got my bloody shorts from when I went into the train tracks six month ago. Always reminding me how important it is to wear a helmet.
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@Francis Cade I love you man
Kom 😎
those bars have a lot of crap that is not good for humans. better/less expensive source of quick/sustained energy on a ride are a bag full of walnuts and dates. Dates are full of bioavailable minerals/carb/micro nutrients. The Walnuts have healthy lipids that are critical for forming new cells. Fat/Lipid keeps every cell contained so you are not a bowl full of jelly. It also seals your skin so you don't leak blood. Pizza is poor food for energy because it has gluten and dairy which cause intestinal permeability and leads to diabetes. NEJM 2008
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