Triathlon

If you’re like most triathletes, you are attracted by the sport’s unique challenge of attaining a high level of performance in three completely different disciplines. To meet this challenge, you must train frequently in each discipline. Training frequently in three sports simultaneously requires that you pack a lot of workouts into each week. At a minimum, triathletes must work out once a day. A large fraction of competitive triathletes perform doubles—two workouts in one day—at least once or twice a week. And there are those who double almost every day.

Such frequent training puts a premium on post-workout recovery. If your next workout comes at most 24 hours after your last one and possibly as soon as five or six hours later, you need to refuel and repair your muscles as fast as possible between workouts to avoid hindering your performance.The three requirements for recovery are time, rest and proper nutrition. That’s where ARX can make a difference.

How Nutrition Can Help Speed Muscle Recovery

There’s little you can do about the time factor if you’re triathlon training every day, perhaps twice a day. You can make more of the limited recovery time you do have by keeping your activity level low between workouts, which is probably something you do anyway. The real wildcard is nutrition.

Research has shown that endurance athletes recover much faster and consequently perform much better in their next workout when they consume carbohydrate, protein and fluid soon after completing each workout instead of waiting. Consuming these same nutrients during your harder workouts will also help your muscle recovery by limiting dehydration, muscle fuel depletion and muscle damage, so your body has less to recover from.

Nutritional supplementation has a similar effect. ARX is one of the most exciting endurance sports recovery supplements to come along in years. The proprietary blend of mushroom extracts in ARX enhances the function of your body’s lactate shuttle, a system that delivers lactate produced by glucose breakdown in the working muscles to the heart and brain, which use it for energy, and to the liver, where it is converted to glucose that can then be shipped back to your muscles to provide more energy.

A faster lactate shuttle has a couple of key benefits. First, it enables your body to get more usable energy from each molecule of glucose, thus delaying the depletion of the small glycogen supplies (glycogen is the storage form of glucose) inside your muscles, which is a major cause of fatigue in prolonged exercise. Second, by delaying muscle glycogen depletion, a faster lactate shuttle delays the point at which your muscles begin to break down large amounts of their own proteins as a secondary energy source, a process that results in muscle damage.

With ARX sports endurance supplements you finish each workout with more fuel left in your muscles and less muscle damage, making the muscle recovery process quicker and enabling you to perform better in your next workout. What triathlete wouldn’t want that?

World Champion Triathlete Terenzo Bozzone

Faster Tomorrow-sponsored professional triathlete Terenzo Bozzone won the 2008 Ironman 70.3 World Championships in record time. Bozzone was recently featured on the cover of Triathlete magazine, and has gained international attention since he burst onto the scene in North America by shattering the course record with a win at the 2006 Wildflower Triathlon.

Watch the video below to hear Terenzo tell how ARX helps him get to the finish line first.