12/9/2023 0 Comments Movist max icon![]() ![]() Riders shifted away from a high-carb focus towards high protein for recovery. Don’t try this at home-you might experience digestive discomfort! The minimum they ate on the bike was 66 g per hour and the maximum was as high as 119 g. They averaged 91 g of carbs every hour across all of the stages. On the bike, riders ate nearly half of all the calories for the whole day. They consumed over 43% of daily calories on the bike To start, they had such a big breakfast that it would feed a typical sedentary person for almost an entire day. The study also shows when the Movistar riders consumed this amount of food throughout the day. © Profimedia Breakfast was the biggest meal of the day The bidons handed to riders were counted as well. Just to compare, even if you’re fit and live an active lifestyle with a lot of cycling, you probably only burn around 2,500 kcal per day and that is typically made up of around 350 g of carbs, 90g of protein, and 82 g of fat. 98 g of fat per day (1.5 g per kg of body weight).230 g of protein per day (3.3 g per kg of body weight).872 g of carbs per day (12.5 g per kg of body weight).Here is how many calories, carbs, fat, and protein per day the riders averaged during the whole tour. The team also recorded the number of bidons handed out to each rider. Likewise, food and gels were weighed before each stage and the remainder re-weighed to determine how much was actually eaten. They weighed every food plate of every breakfast and dinner before it was eaten, and sat with the riders to see how much of each ingredient they ate. The researchers were truly meticulous when tracking the food of all nine Movistar riders. © Profimedia Every bite of food was tracked Bauke Mollema enjoying his sandwich at the 2020 Tour. Movistar won the team classification both in the Tour de France and Vuelta a España that year. The researchers worked with nine Team Movistar riders at the 2015 Vuelta a España. ![]() This study is truly unique because it comes from working with elite cyclists in a Grand Tour setting. ![]()
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