He Ate 1,000 More Calories a Day and Lost 8kg: What 9 Months of Triathlon Nutrition Actually Changes

What happens when you eat 1,000 more calories a day? For Curt, a 54 year old triathlete from Texas, it meant losing 8kg, ditching the daily nap and finally making it through a training day without bonking. That is not a typo, and it is not a fluke.

Nine months ago, three brand new Triathlon Nutrition Academy athletes came on the show a few weeks into the program to share what it is really like on the inside. Now Curt, Jade and Steve have finished all three phases and they are back. Three different athletes, three different decades of life and three very different starting points: a 39 year old mum of three from WA in her second Ironman build, a scientist from Texas who watched from the sidelines for 4 years while his mate got faster and a 71 year old from San Diego with more than 300 races behind him and no formal nutrition education until now.

WHAT YOU WILL TAKE AWAY

• Why Curt lost 8kg while going from around 2,000 to closer to 3,000 calories a day, and why underfuelling was the thing keeping the body fat on
• The one change that eliminated Curt's post-workout naps and gave him back at least an hour a day
• How Jade went from years of fasted sessions to fuelling every session, and what changed when she hit 90g of carbs an hour on the bike
• Why Steve calls nutrition free speed after 30 years of hand waving it, and how a race week plan changed 5 national championship races in 3 days
• What separating fluid from fuel does to a race day plan
• The benefits nobody expected outside triathlon, from a happier marriage to more beach days and a kid who packs his mum's long run fuel
• What all three would say to the version of themselves sitting on the fence 9 months ago

Nutrition is not something you fix in a week, and it is not something you fix for life by collecting free nuggets from AI, YouTube or podcasts. It is something you learn, practise and make your own. That is exactly what the Triathlon Nutrition Academy is built for: 9 months learning how to fuel your body for your own training, with me and a group of legends like Curt, Jade and Steve beside you.

Doors to the Triathlon Nutrition Academy are open right now. Join the October cohort here before doors close on Saturday 10 October.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Introduction: Curt, Jade and Steve 9 months on

01:45 One word for their nutrition now versus then

03:20 Curt: no more bonking, no more naps, 8kg down while eating more

08:40 Jade: fitting TNA around 3 kids, work and an Ironman build

10:50 Jade: from fasted training to every session fuelled

12:20 Steve: the biggest mistake of a 30 year career and why nutrition is free speed

14:30 Steve: 5 national championship races in 3 days with a plan

16:10 Curt: race day now, and separating fluid from fuel

17:55 Jade: the Busselton build, 90g of carbs an hour and the scribbled paper plan

22:30 A year of listening to the podcast versus a year inside the program

24:30 What changed the most in how they fuel and race

27:05 What changed outside triathlon: smoothie bags, a happier wife and more beach days

30:40 Steve on strength training and getting bigger at 71

31:30 What they learnt about themselves that they did not expect

36:20 What they would tell themselves 9 months ago, and was it worth the investment

41:20 What is next: Busselton, Edmonton and a possible full distance

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