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4 Ways L-Glutamine Will Boost Your Performance
FUEL SMARTER, GO FARTHER L-Glutamine is an amino acid that acts as a building block of protein. It's kinda like an essential building material for your muscles to make sure they're strong and performing optimally. It's known as a conditionally essential amino acid which means your body can produce it on its own, but under certain conditions, such as your muscles being put under a lot of stress or when you're injured, you need to get it from your diet too. So now that you've got the basic idea of what L-Glutamine is, let's get into the good stuff...aka....
24 hr National Champion, Christie Tracy, has a Secret Weapon.
Find out what it is below! A few months back, National Champion, Christie Tracy, sent an email to Carborocket explaining her nutrition secret to absolutely dominating the competition. Check it out below! Hi Y'all! I just wanted to report back really quick, and say THANK YOU so much! I could not possibly have imagined just how well the Half Evil would work for fueling a 24 hour Time Trial Effort. .. I literally replaced every single gel, cookie, chip, and gummy worm with Half Evil, and never even approached a bonk or craved solid food at all for the ENTIRE thing. Oh,...
The Secret to Crushing 355 Miles + 27.5k Feet of Climbing
Learn how Carborocket athlete, Kae Takeshita, finished strong at the Iowa Wind & Rock Event It's a fairly regular occurrence to get emails and letters from people telling us about their positive experiences using Carborocket products, but recently we received an email that was especially impressive. Kae Takeshita, a Carborocket athlete wrote in to tell us about her experience at the Iowa Wind & Rock Event. Check it out below. Hello Carborocket Team: Not sure if you've heard of Trans Iowa... the ultra long distance gravel that went on for about 14 years. Anyways, its successor Iowa Wind & Rock...
Faceless Brands are Boring! Get to Know Us!
Listen to CarboRocket founder, Brad Keyes, tell his story on the ReddyYeti podcast! The reality is, faceless brands are boring. Luckily, we're not one of those. Our founder, Brad Keyes, an avid endurance athlete and the driving force behind the products you know and love got to tell his story on the ReddyYeti podcast. Check it out below! Also Available on... Itunes: CR-Brad Keyes-Podcast Stitcher: CR-Brad Keyes-Podcast Spotify: CR-Brad Keyes-Podcast
What's the Optimum Daily H2O Intake?
This is probably the most common question when it comes to hydration. You've likely heard of what's commonly referred to as the 8x8 method. This method says that you should be drinking 8 oz of water 8 times per day for a total of 64 oz of H20. As human beings, we like neat, easy, one-size-fits-all answers to our questions but the problem is, these answers are usually oversimplified so they don't work for everyone. The amount of water you'll need on training days vs non-training days is going to differ drastically. There is a sweet spot for...