Articles
Liquid Shot: Traditional Gels Are History
By First Endurance
When re-engineering Liquid Shot, we left no design choice unquestioned and no research or tech stone unturned. Learn about the rationale behind the latest formula.
How Liquid Shot Delivers More Energy, Faster
By Dr. Luke Bucci, PhD
Dr. Bucci gets granular with the sugars and starches that make Liquid Shot the ultimate emergency fuel source when you’re at your absolute limit.
Getting Somewhere while Going Nowhere
By Dr. Luke Bucci, PhD
Riding indoors is also radically different from riding outside.
In this blog installment, we share tips for how to approach fueling, recovery, and maintaining a mental edge during indoor training.
When to Cram Carbs In an Ultra-Endurance Event
One of the most frequent questions we get is how much carbs do I need to take (or, often, how much can I take) during my long-duration events, races, or training? This blog is a follow-up to the previous blog about increasing carbs/hour during endurance exercise, where Dr. Bucci answered that question. One thing he didn’t cover in that last blog is that, with higher carb intake, timing is everything, so in this blog, Dr. Bucci addresses when to go big on carbs.
Mythbusting Caffeine Habituation
The idea that habituation reduces caffeine’s effect on exercise performance is a myth that has been perpetrated by years of investigator reporting bias, unsupported anecdotal comments, and ambivalent study designs in many peer-reviewed articles over the years.
The real story is that no matter how much caffeine you normally ingest daily, taking it before and during exercise will still produce tangible performance benefits – or, in scientific terms, it’ll still be ergogenic. You will still run faster, farther, longer, burn more fat, spare more glycogen, and perform better physically if you ingest caffeine before exercise. Your physiology and biochemistry still respond favorably to caffeine and always have. So keep it up!
Caffeine as a Nootropic
Is caffeine a nootropic?
Short answer: YES! Calling caffeine a nootropic is a no-brainer; it’s the poster child, most prolific, and – arguably – best nootropic.
The Glycemic Index & Carbohydrate Fueling
The Glycemic Index (GI) is a characteristic of carbs in different foodstuffs that affects choosing what carbs to use during long-term exercise. Since glucose is by far the main sugar in the bloodstream, glycemic index tracks the change in blood glucose levels for 4-6 hours after eating on an empty stomach, and it’s measured by administering 100 grams (about a quarter pound) dry weight of a specific carb source. The area under the curve for the rise in blood sugar from 100 grams of glucose is defined as a GI = 100.
