Bikers racing in the tour de France must fuel their bodies each night to prepare for the next days race over the next 3 weeks. I

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Bikers racing in the tour de France must fuel their bodies each night to prepare for the next days race over the next 3 weeks. I

f giving the choice of meals at the end of day one, which would be more benefitable to the racers. Crepe Suzette and fruit salad and apple juice or spaghetti and meatball and proteins shake?

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Bond [772] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-26T12:22:17+03:00

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Generally athletes need CHO load to provide enough extra glycogen storage for the muscles.So that when these immediate glycogen is used up the storage can be used. this is called carbohydrate loads.

Therefore this cyclist needs to take load of pasta-spaghetti to supply enough CHO load as glycogen each night to replace the lost CHO and high protein- meatball,for recovery.

Apple juice can be taken as part of breakfast,protein shakes are good for breakfast.

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