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.
To pedal for a long time, in fact, our body needs of a lot of energies, and above all carbohydrates (from pastas, potatoes, cereals but also fruit for the useful sugars of ready use) and proteins (from meat, eggs and legumes), to always give muscles new energy. Very important they are also mineral salts and vitamins that are in vegetables and fruit, but also a right quantity of fats that are in fact precious also to activate the elimination of superfluous body fats.
Finally, don’t forget to drink a lot, firstly water (in a big quantity, both before than during the sport activity) but also fruit-juices or sweetened tea.
A body well fed will allow you to face long trainings and races without to risk dangerous defaillances as the diminution of sugars’ level in blood.
In the Italy Bike Hotels of our coast specialized in welcoming cyclists, you will find a healthy and savoury cooking, as preferred by sportsmen who also love the good gastronomy. For a cyclist, the right diet must in fact be well balanced, rich of vitamins and mineral salts but also of substantial foods, that here you will find in a lot of dishes of pastas, meat and fish.
Sonya Argelli
