Nutrition Tips to Prepare for Biking


[Italian Spaghetti - credit: Gio JL]

You need to pay attention to nutrition to train well and bike on difficult routes.

Italy has a great selection of typical foods. It could be a great idea to join the health benefits of fresh food wiith your nutrition requirements.

What to eat before a cyclotour?

  • Carbohydrates
  • Fructose
  • Proteins

These are nourishments that you should feed in the right measure also during training time.

The right diet consits in 5 meals a day

Don’t hope that doping is a real solution to replace a good training. This is a dangerous method that threaten your health. Anabolic steroid and other substances are dangerous and outlaw.? Protein supplements are the result of chemist elaborations such as freeze-dry of low quality milk, You can find good proteins in white meat and eggs.

Suggested Italian Foods to eat

Here an exhaustive list of the aliments: (Click here to read the Mediterranean food pyramid)

  • Bread, pasta, rice, potatoes
  • Vegetables: Spinach, Cauliflowers, Carrots, Eggplants, Tomatoes, broccoli, capsicum, capers, garlic and onion
  • Fruit: Olives, Grape, Oranges, Lemons, Apples, cherries, Strawberries, peaches, apricots
  • Legumes: beans, peas
  • Fruit: Walnuts, Almonds, Pistachio nuts
  • Oil of olive
  • Honey
  • Milk and cheeses
  • White Meat (chicken, rabbit, turkey, etc…) and fish (fish sword, sardines, tuna, clears)
  • Eggs
  • Red meat (veal, lamb, etc…)
  • Water
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