Cycling Sports Nutrition | Success Stories
Many variables affect your training and performance. With Herbalife24, sports nutrition is one aspect in your performance preparation your can trust, giving you the confidence it takes to be a 24-Hour Athlete.™
Cycling is demanding. You need to:
- provide fuel for your muscles.
- repair muscle and tissue damage.
- replace lost electrolytes
This means you should be aiming to get enough nutrients in your diet to sustain you while cycling and to recover afterwards.
Cycling will feel easier so your fitness should increase faster…
Your recovery time will be cut so you can ride again sooner…
Herbalife 24 Prolong – This endurance drink has a subtle, easy-to-drink flavor, plus provides all the carbohydrates and
electrolytes your body needs to sustain during a race. And a small amount of protein which consuemd during exercise helps to prevent muscle breakdown and speeds recovery.
Nutrition For Cycling
Dr. Heiss is the director of Herbalife’s sports and fitness products for worldwide product marketing. As a category 2 competitive cyclist, Dr. John Heiss has a keen understanding of the nutrition required for cycling. He has earned belt buckles at the Leadville 100 mile mountain bike race and set a course record in the 2-person division at the Furnace Creek 508 – a 508 mile non-stop bike race.
With his expertise, the company launched Herbalife24, a new program of high-performance sports products. Before joining Herbalife, Heiss was the founder of an endurance sports nutritional company. He earned a Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in biological chemistry, where he discovered how single proteins function within cells. The findings from his research work have been published in several peer-reviewed journals.
Team Herbalife24 Results at the Leadville 100
There were numerous milestones and firsts, both in the Leadville 100 race at large, and for the riders of Team Herbalife24.
Notable Milestones and Firsts in the 2011 Race
Fastest men’s field in history with 14 riders breaking the 7-hour mark (including Team Herbalife24 rider Gerry Cody). In 2010, the top 7 men 2010 finish sub-7, and prior to that, only Dave Weins and Lance Armstrong had ever broken the 7-hour barrier.
Fastest women’s field in history with 4 riders finishing sub-8 hours. Prior to this year, Rebecca Rusch’s 2010 finish was the first female sub-8 in nearly 15 years.
Team Herbalife24 Results
With nearly 30 riders on course wearing the distinctive Herbalife GreenTeam Herbalife 24 was well represented throughout the field, particularly near the front. Accolades earned by team riders on this amazing day of racing include 1x Top-10 finish, 3x Top-20 finishers, and 6x Top-50 finishers. 17 riders earned the coveted “Big Buckle” (sub-9 hours) and one rider (Nate Whitman) earned his giant “10-year 1,000-mile buckle”. Herbalife24′s female riders had a super-strong showing with Christy Lindh (Leadville, CO) and Courtney O’Donnell (Seattle, WA) taking 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Women 20-29 category. Jennifer Shinn (Estes Park, CO) finished just off the podium in 4th place in the Women 40-49 Category behind a trio of international-caliber pros. In doing so, she earned the big buckle with a time of 8:44:57. Two key Herabalife24 riders, CEO Michael Johnson and Sports & Fitness Products Director John Heiss also had stellar outings, with both earning their 2nd LT100 buckles and shaving well over 1 hour from the prior personal bests.
Photographs from the race – scroll to the left to see more pictures
First Female Triathlete to Complete the London Paris Enduroman Challenge
Congratulations Rachael Cadman, Enduroman No 8, First Female Arch 2 Arc Finisher. The event involves an 87-mile run from London to Dover, a 23-mile Channel swim and a 187-mile cycle from Calais to the Arc de Triomphe.
Rachael is part of an exclusive club of 8 to complete the challenge, the other 7 being men. More astronauts have been to the moon!
Flt Lt Cadman said: “It was pretty daunting, but I have been working up to this for some time and raising money for Help for Heroes and Shelter Box disaster relief is a great motivation to see it through”