Interview with Dr. Tullio Valerio Mazza
GP, CONI.
Are the food supplements really necessaries?
Among those people who constantly practise sport, and therefore also among the cyclists, what they often cross long distances and however particularly prolonged efforts, there is since a long time the habit to use food supplements.
Cycling diet
Being a sport activity typically aerobic, cycling demands to the riders a good nutrition able to bring to the body all the nourishing that are necessaries to sustain the same sport activity.
The risk of an insufficient or inadequate feeding is in fact that to be without energies during training or a race, with serious consequences for our body.
The first symptoms to be avoided are those of hunger and thirst, whose stimuli come when it’s already too late.
Cycling Training Diet
As in every sport, to reach important results but also to make your cycling training more effective, also in cycling is very important to feed yourself in the correct way.
Being a sport of prolonged resistance, it’s in fact important to feed ourselves with a specific diet that give to our physical a lot of important elements that we need for the sport activity.
The secret of the diet for cyclists
A good feeding is the base for a healthy life and every sporting activity. In the sports of resistance particularly, and therefore also in cycling, it results of extraordinary importance not to risk to suddenly be with “no fuel”. The secret of the diet of the cyclists are very simple and easy also for not professional cyclists. That proper for whom loves cycling it is mainly a simple feeding, but at the same time rich of every nourishing element and also of calories, necessary to face a prolonged effort.
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