[Narrator] What's up trainiacs!
Today I'm gonna share with you
a secret recipe used to help bonking triathletes
and cyclists save their legs when
they start cramping up, start feeling good,
and still need to go on.
Includes Coke and others.
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[Narrator] So, what's up trainiacs!
Very quick video today and this relates
to something that I tested out over the
last month or so, that I've had huge success with.
A friend of mine, who used to lead
cycling tours in Europe, he said that when one of
the athletes that had paid money to come
over to Europe and get led around
and have really enjoyable cycling times,
was having very unenjoyable cycling times,
they would take one of these little mini cans of
Coke and they would create a 'Nuke'.
Which is little mini can of Coke and a Nunn.
So they would take the Nuun, which is an
electrolyte tablet that dissolves in water,
and it really dissolves in Coca-Cola.
Give it just a little bit of a shake
to flatten it out so it didn't create
all that burping in the stomach and
basically, BOOM, instantly that rider
had new legs and they were able to get
through the next half hour or couple of hours
by going on that little recipe.
Now, if you go to most Ironman branded events,
they will have Coke on the course.
A lot of people tend to avoid it because
they haven't tried it in training.
Rightfully so.
But, I would recommend that in your
training you get used to training with Coke.
There are a few reasons why something
like a 'Nuke' is the absolute perfect
rescue drink solution.
Next secret: The reason that Coke, for starters,
is so good for triathletes, especially
with these little cans, is because it's the
perfect solution to assimilate
a lot of sugar into your blood stream
really, really quickly.
Things like gels, chews, and bars
your body has to break down from a solid into
a liquid before it can actually
assimilate the sugar that's in it.
In addition to that, it's also got caffeine and
that caffeine is gonna give you a little bit
of a pep and it's going to decrease the
perception of pain while you're out there.
However, I wouldn't just recommend Coke alone.
That's why the 'Nuke' is so powerful.
Because, a lot of times when people are bonking,
it's not necessarily only because of lack of
calories in a requirement for really
refined easy to access sugar.
It might also be because, at that point
in the race the athlete has sweated out a lot
of the electrolytes and the body is starting to
shut down because it doesn't have the
electrolytes to make the muscles fire.
That's why you'll see people with salt tubes,
that towards the latter half of a race,
they will actually be like taking straight salt,
licking their thumb, shaking it, licking it again,
as much as every five to ten minutes.
This is what I'm starting to experiment
with over the last month or so.
I've been trying to get more Coke in me
when I'm going for my brick runs.
Going for a run that is like the second workout
of the day, coming off of either a swim or a bike
and I've got the potential to start
cramping, start fading a little bit, because
I've been already working out for
two, three, four hours.
I've found that Coke has been really good.
However, yesterday, what I did was because,
I'm not a huge fan of Nuun, I took this
can of Coke, put it into a glass, and then
I just wanted to test out if electrolytes
and salt alone would be enough.
So, I took this, and I crushed a fair bit of salt
just right into it, and it was like this
just glorious, salty magic.
Then, I went out and I cramped out a 7k run
at four minute, 22 second per kilometer pace
after a really hard three hour forty minute bike.
I was out there in the wind on the bike
and I didn't think I'd have anything left
for the run, and I could feel while I was
on the run that typically, where my body
would start seizing up, it didn't in this case.
Now, can you carry a Coke, and can you carry all
these Nuun packets, or can you carry yourself a
salt grinder in races?
No, but, here's what you can do.
If you have trained to have Coke towards
the latter half of the race, that means
you've taken Coke in multiple training
scenarios leading into your race, go and
take your calories primarily from Coke
at every single aide station.
Getting a good amount in you.
Then, to get the electrolytes
in you, what I would get is a little tube
which is about the size of a pinky
fill that up with your favorite
really strong electrolyte powder.
In my case, I'm going to start
exclusively using SOS Rehydrate
and I'm going to take that tube
and gonna fill it with SOS Rehydrate
and every five to ten minutes
I'm gonna shake that tube, lick the thumb,
get it on there, and then get the
electrolytes there.
So, I'm getting all of my sugar
in really easy to access calories
at every single aide station in smaller
doses than 90 calories.
Maybe at every aide station I'm
taking on about 30 calories, which
will work out perfectly because
you wanna take on some where around
90 calories every half hour.
So, every 10 minutes, 30 calories, works out.
Then I'm also not going to be lacking
the electrolytes because I'll be
taking that separately.
As far as fluids go, it's right there.
So I'm not gonna have a ton of things
sloshing around in my stomach
trying to get my fluids from water
and electrolyte drinks, and then calories
from gels, getting all over me, and electrolytes.
I'm kind of just putting it all together
in two separate packages that are very easy
to access and carry.
Not bad, right?
Now, don't get carried away and think
that Coke is, by any stretch of the
imagination, a health food.
It's more like a rescue mix when
you are absolutely smashed and
right in the bitter end of a race.
But, if we're training to get
ourselves to that bitter end of the race
we can have a little bit in training,
because the training itself is
gonna be really hard and then by
the time we get to the race, we're gonna
be ready to take down that Coke and reward ourselves.
There we go, trainiacs
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like a cold Coke
with salt in it
on a really hot day,
known as yesterday.
(whispering) Oh man, that tasted good.
(normal voice) That was so good.