SFuels Expert Insights & Stories

Ultimate Race-Week Taper - Beyond Training.
Ultimate Race-Week Taper - Beyond Training.
You've put in months of training -  now it's time to bring it all together for race-day execution.We want to avoid any radical changes at this time,  so I'll leave... Read more...
World Track star blows up in half-marathon. Specificity Case-Study - Takeaways and Learnings.
World Track star blows up in half-marathon. Specificity Case-Study - Takeaways and Learnings.
Multiple studies (1-4, 6) highlight the performance outcomes, and metabolic-implications of training and nutrition specificity.  Aside from all the research it's been fascinating to observe high-profile athletes demonstrating of how 'specific'... Read more...
Endurance Sport and REDs. Sufficient Calories - Training & Everyday.
Endurance Sport and REDs. Sufficient Calories - Training & Everyday.
It's no surprise that endurance sport places high-demands on the body. However the implications of these demands are not always obvious to the athlete.  While athletes may recognize the signs... Read more...
Fructose Over-Consumption: Further Considerations for the Athlete.
Fructose Over-Consumption: Further Considerations for the Athlete.
  In January last year (2023) we published a three blogs on Fructose over-consumption and consideration for endurance athletes. This includes both training, performance, gut-resilience and chronic disease risks.  Our... Read more...
Whey Protein: Why all the interest from endurance athletes ?
Whey Protein: Why all the interest from endurance athletes ?
So whats the reason for all the hype about Whey powder ? Firstly the basics – Whey is whats left over when cows milk is coagulated during the process of... Read more...
Minimizing Muscle Soreness - SFuels Extended Substrate. How it Works.
Minimizing Muscle Soreness - SFuels Extended Substrate. How it Works.
Endurance athletes are more than well acquainted with post-workout muscle soreness, or whats commonly referred to as Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS).On the other hand, what has come as a surprise to... Read more...
Carnitine (Part 2): Elevated Muscle Loading via Muscle Contraction and Caffeine Co-ingestion.
Carnitine (Part 2): Elevated Muscle Loading via Muscle Contraction and Caffeine Co-ingestion.
In our Part 1 blog on Carnitine, we highlighted research showing the positive implications for endurance performance through upregulated muscle-carnitine loading.  Tangible metabolic improvements in fatty-acid utilization (and subsequent glycogen retention)... Read more...
Carnitine (PART 1): Increasingly relevant for an Endurance Metabolism.
Carnitine (PART 1): Increasingly relevant for an Endurance Metabolism.
With fat-oxidation rates being one of the few determinate factors of performance outcomes in endurance sport (1, 2), sports science researchers have sort to work out how best to manipulate... Read more...
Part2. Beyond Zone2 Workouts. Fat in the diet to Maximize Fat-Oxidation. 4 Best Practices.
Part2. Beyond Zone2 Workouts. Fat in the diet to Maximize Fat-Oxidation. 4 Best Practices.
[WATCH YOUTUBE VERSION - HERE]   Like any conditioning of the body, whether by exercise, diet or other means - consistency is king.  As we've referenced (1) in other SFuels material, it's fat... Read more...
New Research: Low-Carb High-Fat and High-Intensity Performance
New Research: Low-Carb High-Fat and High-Intensity Performance
There's been plenty of heated debate over the years on whether endurance athletes on low-carb fueling regimes - can deliver top-end performance. A new rigorous research paper has just been... Read more...
Fructose Part 3: Gut Integrity and Exercise
Fructose Part 3: Gut Integrity and Exercise
 In this Part 3 of our series on Fructose we'll round out the story by looking at the progressive research relating to gut health and fructose.  With recreational endurance athletes... Read more...
Fructose Part 2: Blunting Aerobic Development
Fructose Part 2: Blunting Aerobic Development
In the November Monday Mindshare we began our three-part series on the topic of Fructose. In Part 1, we discussed the research trends, regarding the over-consumption of fructose and its... Read more...