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For years, First Endurance had PreRace in capsule and powder form. The formula was well-loved, but advancements in sports nutrition research opened new vistas for using a streamlined new formula with each ingredient clinically studied for performance benefits.

The new PreRace provides multiple, complementary benefits for long-duration, intense endurance exercise and recovery, pushing every crucial button for mental and physical performance. As always, we’re not just guessing or puffing a product up with marketing hyperbole – the formula is built on a comprehensive review of scientific literature, clinical research, and our know-how from real-life field testing.

Research shows the brain plays a significant role in fatigue and exercise tolerance. Our latest formulations of EFS and EFS-PRO expand the focus beyond simply supporting your body to buttressing up mental toughness—often the final hurdle an athlete has to overcome whether they’re training alone or competing.

By Matt Hanson, EdD

The Ironman World Championships are finally going to happen and I couldn’t be more excited. I have had a fantastic build, am healthy, and eager to toe the line – It is officially taper time.

I’ve been asked quite a few times recently by the athletes I coach about how they should change their diet when they are leading into a high priority race, so I thought I’d throw a few of my thoughts on the matter together since I’m sure others have similar questions.

Words like “inspiring,” “perseverance,” “overcoming,” and the like get thrown around a lot in endurance athletics, but – for some athletes – they aren’t just stoke-bro hyperbole. Tommy “Rivs” Puzey is one of those athletes, and we’re unironically and very sincerely stoked to announce a partnership with him.

Due to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions, Curcumin has long promised stunningly powerful effects against all sorts of maladies; however, popular messaging about curcumin is often imprecise at best or misleading at worst, contributing to a sense of illegitimacy about curcumin’s potential benefits. This is the first in a series of blog posts to address misconceptions by showing the research behind our use of curcumin, explaining the significance of HALO’s formula for curcumin’s operation, and exploring how curcumin works in the body.

The technology that makes curcumin viable and effective in human bodies didn’t exist. So First Endurance developed it.

In this third and final installment on curcumin in HALO, Dr. Bucci breaks down the effects the compound has on exercising bodies by explaining how curcumin does what it does for athletes – and why it’s important.

By Matt Hanson, EdD

As a coach, I’ve noticed a trend that goes on repeat year after year. Athletes tend to reach out 4-5 months prior to their first big race of the season and continue working with the coach through the fall when their final race is complete, but then they disconnect for the winter months. While I certainly understand the need to check out from the daily grind for a period of time at the end of the season, I really think this is a difficult approach to take if you are looking for the best possible performance.

By Burke Swindlehurst

If you’re looking for some insightful tips to keep the pounds off during the Holidays, I’m going to stop you right here, because this isn’t going to be that sort of article. I’m not a nutrition expert, and I’ve never played one on TV. If anything, I’ve always just been more of an amateur philosopher, so if that’s your jam, then read-on…

Senactiv® has been carefully designed and clinically studied to improve exercise recovery and thus, performance. It speeds up normal muscle repair processes after strenuous exercise and improves exercise capacity by increasing muscle energy (ATP) production. Let’s do a little digging into what Senactiv® actually is and how it produces these effects.

The most common complaint fielded at First Endurance about endurance training is cramping, known officially in scientific literature as Exercise-Associated Muscle Cramping (EAMC).