About this episode

Taryn Richardson discusses the pitfalls of calorie tracking for triathletes and how it can hinder performance rather than enhance it.

Is your calorie tracking app actually working against you? You're logging everything, hitting your macros and training hard but your long sessions are falling apart, the scale won't budge and you're exhausted in a way that sleep just isn't fixing. The app says you're on track. So what's going wrong? In this episode, Advanced Sports Dietitian Taryn Richardson breaks down why calorie and macro tracking apps - even the good ones built for active people - were never designed to teach a triathlete how to eat. The maths is educated guesswork, the protein targets are built backwards, and the app has no idea how to help you when your kid gets sick and your afternoon session gets cancelled.   In this episode you'll learn: Why calorie apps were built for the sedentary population and why that model falls over for a triathlete training 10 to 20 hours a week How inaccurate your wearable device actually is at measuring calorie burn (spoiler: up to 93% off) Why the standard percentage-based protein model cuts your protein at the exact moment you need it most The difference between hitting your macro numbers and actually knowing how to eat Why underfuelling sneaks in even when you're…

People in this episode

Host: Taryn Richardson

Topics covered

• calorie tracking
• triathlon nutrition
• sports dietetics
• macro tracking
• underfuelling
• athlete performance

Keywords

• calorie tracking
• triathlete nutrition
• macro tracking
• underfuelling
• sports dietitian
• athlete performance
• wearable devices

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