What I eat in a day: marathon runner edition – BBC Africa
What I eat in a day: marathon runner edition – BBC Africa
The marathon is almost synonymous with the Olympics and has been part of the modern Games since their beginnings in 1896. Running 42.2 kilometres at speed is one of the ultimate endurance events, requiring athletes to burn up huge amounts of energy.
But how much exactly? And in an era of advanced sports science and nutrition, what are the…
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Had to come here just to prove to myself that Chaffee's idiotic comments about carbs being responsible for hitting the wall while running (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MYz8V6cHSus) are totally wrongo bongo. I know that people who love eating animals are naturally going to be open to a doctor providing tons of "sciency sounding" statements supporting their taste as "healthier" than anything else.
Not an energy drink nor bar nor gel in sight! ❤
SEE, even the elite marathon runners eat very less fat as their energy source, Brigid Kosgei said she eats avocado sometimes, not everyday. And we people who never workout out, let alone run a marathon we think avocados are good for our health, olive oil are good for our heart, MY ASS, fats are fats, yes avocado and olive oil has some very good antioxidants, but just for the sake of that eating them regularly is bad, our body recognize all fats as fats… for antioxidants its better to eat leafy green vegetables and low sugar fruits
Not many calories per day 🙄
Dang, they eat so little. After a 15-20k run I want to binge on pizza 😅
Any westerner who's going to copy and paste this way of living will give up REAL QUICK.
no coffee,,,,,,,,,,,,?
Super humans🤩
All that running on a few hundred calories…..amazing. 🍌🍌
For someone who can burn 10 packs of french fries in a day, he says he has french fries once in a while!!!
Beans for fart powered races, that's cheating!
The fact that the best marathon runner highlighted the importance of proteins show how necessary it is for recovery.
Carb the fuck up.
I find it noteworthy how plain and simple the food discussed is: fruits, rice and beans, fermented vegetables and some milk. Poor people across the planet can eat that—and they probably don’t even eat that much.
Essentially, these athletes are in a constant state of using every last gram of whatever goes into their mouths. Their bodies are super efficient.
Unlike our standard American bodies which look awful. I used to sprint but now I’m a sedentary lawyer.
Fasting has helped but these athletes are in a health league of their own.
No protein shakes and tons of Pasta? Wow!
Working out makes me so hungry, I would eat alot more than they do, if I were them 🙂
Bulk of their calories comes from plants, ugali chappathi rice and beans bread tea banana. They are not dying of protein deficiency and are rather kicking everyone’s butt of people that take a lot of supplements and “protein”.
Omg such a basic food. No fancy stuff. No doubt we all have forgotten these
Steroids
It's beautiful to see that African are so much grounded to earth, simple food no plastic pollution, packed foods like other nations
I only eat air, but, its low fat zero sugar low carb air.
This is the most African African looking food I've ever seen in my life. And I'm African. Central to be precise. But I approve of this message 100%!
kipchoge is the goat of distance running
japanese athletes used to dominate in the early 2000s. but their diet is not really good nowadays – so much fried food..