Matt Fitzgerald Quotes

#1. Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter.

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#2. What's more, your body also must be accelerated forward with every stride because it loses momentum upon each foot landing. The

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#3. There's a difference between nutrition knowledge and food knowledge.

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#4. eating enough carbohydrate every day will allow you to train harder, better absorb the stress of your training, and perform better in important workouts than you would without adequate carbohydrate intake.

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#5. Beet juice is rich in dietary nitrates, which are precursors for nitric oxide, a chemical that the body uses to cause blood vessels to dilate. Consuming beet juice before exercise increases vasodilatation and blood flow and reduces the oxygen cost of exercise. These

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#6. There are two types of nutrition that have the potential to significantly enhance performance when consumed during running: water and carbohydrate. It is no accident that these are the two main ingredients in almost all sports drinks intended for use during exercise. Most

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#7. Refined grains (regular old spaghetti being an example), fatty meats (hard salami), sweets (blueberry pie), and fried foods (bacon) are not poisonous. They are foods that just happen to be less wholesome than some other foods. There

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#8. If I was ever going to win Ironman, I was going to have to beat the man who rinsed his cottage cheese

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#9. Interestingly, slushie ingestion not only delayed the point at which the subjects reached a critically high core body temperature, but also allowed a higher tolerable core body temperature before exhaustion was reached. In other words, the slushie let them start colder and get hotter.

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#10. It appears, then, that the approach to training

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#11. Body weight is the enemy of running performance. Running is, after all, a continuous fight against gravity. With every stride you take your body must be lifted completely off the ground, because all of the progress you make when running is made while your body is airborne. What's

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#12. Some say there's no magic formula. I say there is. It's just that the magic is different for everyone.

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#13. Build step by step. Push yourself, but not too hard. Learn. Keep it fun.

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#14. Confidence is not some nonphysical quality snatched from the spiritual dimension and installed in the mind. It is the feeling that arises when the body's knowledge of itself is in harmony with a person's dreams.

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#15. Who is ultimately stronger? The answer is undetermined.

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#16. For the only time homeostasis fails is when we are no longer alive.

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#17. Masters runners fare best when they designate every third week as a recovery week.

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#18. According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.

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#19. For every runner who hits the wall because of his or her failure to consume enough carbohydrate during the race, there are several who hit the wall because of their failure to consume enough carbs in their everyday training diet. To

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#20. runners with very heavy training loads need more carbohydrate than runners with more moderate training loads. The more you train, the more carbs your body uses, and the more carbohydrate your body uses, the more carbs you need to eat to maintain adequate muscle glycogen stores.

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