Training and Competing with a Continuous Glucose Monitor: A User's Guide for Athletes [Paperback]

Learn everything you need to know about how continuous glucose monitors can enhance your sports training programs for cycling, racing, swimming, and more from the coauthor of best-sellingTraining and Racing with a Power Meter.

In the very first comprehensive guide to utilizing continuous glucose monitors (CGM) for enhancing sports training,Training and Competing with a Continuous Glucose Monitorwill first explain what CGMs are and how they can help today's athlete maximize performance.

Youll discover how and why seeing your continuous blood glucose with a CGM in real time will give you an edge in your sport with the ability to:

• Optimize the timing of nutrition intake
• Determine the correct serving of foods to positively impact energy levels
• Understand the proper type of foods to use to prime your system before training or an event
• Recognize patterns of poor nutrition and correct them
• Learn your blood glucose highs and lows throughout the day to correct them for better glucose stability
• And so much more

Whether you are an endurance athlete or casual exerciser, pioneering cycling coach Hunter Allen gives you step-by-step directions for using a CGM to clearly understand and use this technology to enhance your ability.

Hunter Allenis a world-renowned cycling coach and author of the groundbreaking bookTraining

and Competing with a Continuous Glucose Monitor. He is the coauthor of the watershed and

bestselling book?Training and Racing with a Power Meter,which has been translated into 12

languages. He has also coauthored two other books,Cutting-Edge CyclingandTriathlon:

Training with Power.

Widely known as one of the top experts in the world in coaching endurance athletes using

power meters, Hunter has been instrumental in developing and spreading the power training

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