Stories by Monique Ryan

• Posted: Wed, May 9th
  The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Is CLA helpful and necessary?
  Dear Monique,I just finished reading large sections of your book, which I find fantasticand will highly recommend to friends. With regards to supplements, onethat I take, but did not see mentioned is conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).Any thoughts on whether this is needed in a ...
• Posted: Wed, Apr 25th
  The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: More on prepping for long rides
  Dear Monique,I have read your interesting and informative article posted on VeloNews.com on 28th march 2007 about EatingRight for Those Long Rides. I have one question relating to the amount of carbohydrate you should consume per hour during your long ride if you have had a ...
• Posted: Wed, Apr 11th
  The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: The all-too-common cramping calves
  Dear Monique,I suffer from leg cramps on longer rides, and even short ones early in the season. I always take a sports drink, usually mixed much stronger than recommended in case it’s due to salt depletion. I would be classified as a heavy salt sweater. I get white lines of ...
• Posted: Wed, Mar 28th
  The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Eating right for those long rides
  With the arrival of spring and warmer weather for many North American cyclists, longer weekend rides are an enhanced and improved part of the training plan. While you may be wisely planning on carrying plenty of sports drinks and gels for the ride itself, what you eat in the ...
• Posted: Wed, Mar 14th
  The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Food on the fly
  Many pros traveled to warmer environs early this in 2007 for early seasonteam training camps and plenty of quality miles on the open road. You mayalso have your own travel plans sometime over the next few weeks, in orderto train and get a jumpstart on your own race preparation. ...
• Posted: Wed, Feb 21st
  The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Are you getting enough iron?
  Cyclists in many parts of the country are ready to leave behind long rideson the trainer and eagerly await warmer weather and putting in some qualityroad miles. As you continue to train and prepare for the 2007 season, don’tignore a small, but essential component of your ...
• Posted: Wed, Feb 7th
  The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Rapid weight loss and your immune system
  Dear Monique:I have read your column in VeloNews for a while and have bothenjoyed and appreciated the knowledge. I have a questions about weightloss and it’s effect on the immune system.For the past few years I have been competing in the sport of triathlon.This year I decided ...
• Posted: Wed, Jan 24th
  The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: Smart scales and oatmeal
  Hi Monique,In yourcolumn about weight loss and body composition monitoring, you mentionedthat scales that compute body fat should use a formula appropriate to athletes.Can you comment further about that means? What errors can be induced? Ihave an electronic scale that I know ...
• Posted: Thu, Jan 11th
  The Feedzone with Monique Ryan: The post-holiday reassessment
  With the holiday season officially over, cyclists are back to work or school and planning ahead for the coming race season. Perhaps you ate and drank your way through December’s seemingly endless string of parties and events, with both your training volume and frequency in a ...
• Posted: Wed, Jul 19th
  The feedzone: Nutritional Challenges of the Tour de France
  With 16 days of hard racing behind them, the peloton is headed for the last day in mountains. From a nutritional perspective, the biggest challenge of a three week stage race like the Tour de France is not only eating to achieve full muscle glycogen recovery off the bike, when ...
• Posted: Wed, Jun 14th
  The Feed Zone with Monique Ryan: Sugar confusion
  Dear Monique, I am thinking of eliminating sugar from my diet, but can’t find anything to replace my energy drink or gel with, have you come across any products that fit the bill?Soured on Sweets Dear Soured,There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding the best types of ...
• Posted: Wed, May 17th
  The Feed Zone with Monique Ryan: Real food and recovery
  You may have heard about a study recently published in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolsim that brought that old childhood favorite drink of chocolate milk into the headlines. This attention getting study did bring up a lot of practical questions ...