I couldn’t resist challenging him, and he replied with an article. Funnily enough, that article undermined his own claims. It listed maximum intake of 3.5 litres per hour.
Now that still seems high to me, but in answering my question he’s demonstrated that his initial post was overstating maximum fluid intake rate by nearly 30%. And that’s before you even get into the fact 3.5 litres is listed as the maximum based on conditions, versus his suggestion that 4.5 litres per hour was what you should do all the time.
He’s a complete idiot. But posting stuff like that is just dangerous. There really should be stronger admins on places like IMJ as otherwise someone is going to follow advice like that and get themselves into a lot of trouble
I always work on the assumption that free advice off the internet is worth what you pay for it. Who ever learnt anything useful from a bunch of triathletes anyway?
Any IMJ thread where someone asks about diet is always going to be a car crash of bad advice
“Don’t do wholewheat, you need the carbs from white pasta. (Husband tells me off for this every time I suggest ‘brown is healthier’)”
Errr - no, just no. Your husband doesn’t like wholewheat and is justifying his preference with psudo science
“Once you know your base cals, you need to track your food/ drink intake. This is the bit that people cant be arsed to do and just ‘guess’ - I use myfitnesspal and track everything religiously…and I mean everything. Get some scales in the kitchen and track, cereal, milk, cooked chicken, cooked baked potatoes…everything. Its a pain in the arse to start with but once you get into a routine, the myfitnesspal app will store all the previous food so it knows.”
When training for an IM calorie counting is really waste of time. Just stop eating shit and do the training and there is no need to spend hours obssessing over calorie counting
I see that, was going to chirp up but thought that it doesn’t matter how much you have learnt and how many courses you’ve done, there’s always someone sat on a couch who watched a youtube video who wants to argue with you and I’m done with that. simple he’s training but still putting weight on. Stop eating cake then
Is this not the typical convoluting of 2 different “rules of thumb”. Avoid wholewheat/fibre close to an event to try to avoid digestive issues on race day v. wholewheat/fibre during normal training being an important part of a healthy diet.
Raymundo strikes again. Anyone else feel like he’s just bored troll? Loves throwing a hand grenade into IMJ, sits back with popcorn and then he’ll aggressively double down defending his inspiring outlook
), but I’d like to see him drink 4.5L an hour on a cold, wet day at IM Wales
