Feed Zone Portables Review Title: Feed Zone Portables: A Cookbook of On-the-Go Food for Athletes Author: Biju K. Thomas, Alan Lim, Ph.D. Publisher: Velo Press Category: Nutrition, Sports Training & Conditioning Summary Feed Zone Portables is a cookbook in the popular series, The Feed Zone. It expands on The Feed Zone Cookbook also written by [...]

Our diet affects us every second we are on the bike. Eat too heavy of a meal and you feel like you are dragging another person around on the bike that day. Don’t eat properly and you bonk halfway through the ride and it takes you days to recover from the effort. One food group [...]

Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate…it is all we ever here as athletes. Go back 20 years ago and coaches would tell us we should drink a gallon of water right before we headed out for a long ride or we would bonk. Thankfully, the information available to use today is much more accurate, especially when it comes [...]

The alternative sports drink once labeled “Secret Drink Mix” has been renamed Skratch Labs Exercise Hydration Mix. A drink mix that was never intended for sale nor allowed to be promoted is no longer a secret. After pro-cyclists at the Tour de France secretly replaced sponsor sports drinks with this mix made from scratch by [...]

If you are an avid cyclist, you have probably heard of Dr. Allen Lim. Recreational riders may not be as familiar and even fans may not be aware of his latest activities. Dr. Lim is a sports physiologist who captured worldwide attention when working for professional cyclists. The good doctor is also a nutritionist and [...]

Title: The Feed Zone Cookbook: Fast and Flavorful Food for Athletes Author: Biju Thomas and Allen Lim Ph.D. Publisher: Velo Press Category: Cookbooks Summary The Feed Zone Cookbook is designed for use by endurance athletes. It offers recipes and tips for preparing foods using ingredients that meet racing and training needs. Long-time cyclist and chef [...]