About this episode

Scott and Megan Foley discuss the challenges female athletes face with carb loading and its impact on race performance.

In this episode of Fuelin Sessions, Scott is joined by Fuelin dietitian and triathlete Megan Foley. They discuss a new study of female athletes at the 2024 Nice Ironman World Championships that found most fell short of their carb-loading targets, why the gap on race day is rarely about knowledge and almost always about execution, how "eating clean" and too much fiber can sabotage a race, the finding that athletes who fueled more finished faster, the mindset shift from training to eat to eating to train, and the lack of female representation in sports-nutrition research. Study ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fuelin on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check Out The Fuelin App⁠⁠

People in this episode

Host: Scott

Guest: Megan Foley

Topics covered

• carb loading
• female athletes
• sports nutrition
• race performance
• dietary strategies

Keywords

• carb loading
• female athletes
• Ironman
• nutrition
• race day
• sports nutrition research

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Organizations: Fuelin

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