Gordo's Guide to Going Long - Part Three

Nutrition, Body Composition & Supplements

Part One discussed:

• Planning Your Season

• Choosing Your Event

• Supporting Races & Events

• The Best Workout for Ironman

• Training Targets

• Heat, Humidity & Altitude

Part Two discussed:

• Swim Training including the 5x 1,000 Swim Set

• Bike Training including a course-specific case study and a comparison between flat and hilly courses

• Run Training

• Why & When Tempo Endurance Fails

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Part Three will build on videos and articles already published:

• Chapter Three: Body Performance & Nutrition

  • Audio Version

• Top Amateur Nutrition

  • Video Seminar

• The Burn Series

  • Part One - Constraints & Energy Set Points

  • Part Two - Stress & Energy Availability

  • Part Three - Peak Burn & How To Fuel

  • Part Four - Off-Season Burn

• The Testing Series

  • Part One - Protocols

  • Part Two - Applying Results

  • Part Three - High Breakpoint Athletes (a characteristic of Top Amateurs)

  • Part Four - Training Strategy for Top Amateurs

I’m going to pull everything you need (for Ironman, at least) into this article and wanted to make it easy for you to access the supporting resources. For example, there is a playlist on my YouTube Channel called Athlete Nutrition.

For your race we have a number of topics to cover:

• Training Nutrition

• Race Nutrition

• Supplements & Ergogenic Aids

• Stress, Intensity & Body Composition