What’s unhealthy about whipped cream?
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Yeah true true 
I mean, he also says that he drinks beers “like any 25 year old”, and one weekend has a note “drunk”, the next day says “hangover”.
I think it fits into the “keep motivation high” category. It’s more fun to eat bags of potato chips, than huge portions of rice.
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Sorry for sidetracking the thread @sryke
Maybe good to start a new thread ‘‘Pro/elite nutrition’’ ;p
7000kcal on one day may not be such an issue … well … but this massive amounts for months is a different story. At some point you have to shovel the stuff into you. Iden eats pizza and Nutella bread rolls for breakfast, NvdP potatoe chips and whipped cream.
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That makes sense. And it’s only for specific blocks, not year round.
But then it also sounds crazy to think that most pro’s eat nutella, pizza and whipped cream because otherwise they can’t fuel their high volume training. I’m sure that enough of them keep it more ‘’clean’’.
Personally I don’t really buy too much into the “clean” thing, but with this we really enter a minefield, diet 
Quite interesting, behind a paywall (*) though. Performance gap analysis!
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I’ve long wanted far off pros to be more open like this about their diet. Once my training tipped into what was necessary to race at a higher level it was clear that “eating clean” was some sort of smokescreen or clickbait-y headline shit that cycling journalists had latched onto.
It always gets to me around the time of the olympics where there are articles after articles about how athletes hadn’t had a piece of cake in 4 years or some other sort of BS. It just causes impressionable and inexperienced athletes to underfuel or develop some sort of eating disorder. Sure some sports may need to chase that, but not most.
In my own anecdotal experience, the real struggle is getting in the pure fuel that you need but also finding room for the nutrients that you equally need. Your stomach is only so big.
tldr; I’m glad these dudes are open about the EAT TRASH GO FAST lifestyle. I’m about it.
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I too like to eat an entire bag of potato chips before bed every day when I’m training in the off-season. Literally, unfortunately.
But I’m glad to see that now I can definitely say it’s to help with my training. And I can tell people that I follow the same nutritional plan as an Olympic athlete, provided they have no follow-up questions.
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I often think the same.
I’ve juts read Mark Cabendish’s latest book and he’s talking about worrying about gaining weight during the tour. Specifically, he mentions the longest stage early on in the race (250km) where he finishes dead, yet won’t have any desert and is weighing pasta.
Seems crazy to me. I’d have thought it’s way as much as you can.
Chris Horner with cheeseburgers and snickers candy bars comes to mind here.
FWIW, I love pizza for breakfast. Cold pizza. Unfortunately my genetics are not elite
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Chris horner ate like poop, but when he won his only grand tour he was eating clean and lost 10 more lbs.
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Damn, I should have kept my mouth shout. Never comment on diet. Never, ever.
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Diet is like religion, best not to talk about it. However pro/elite training does revolve around work on the bike, recovery, and eating. So it does have some place in this thread.
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Not questioning this.
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This is rule #1. No comments, just observe
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I’m a Horner fan. Will leave it at that rather than take the thread further off topic.
Who started this diet talk anyway?
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Me and I’m sorry 
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A nice runner’s view on NvdP’s trainin
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This one is interesting because it gives some insights into the Norwegian triathlon training model. Sanders is coached by one of the Iden brothers now.
Paradigm shift from
- “hard days super-super-Sanders hard and easy days super easy”
to - push LT1, push LT2, never really hard.
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