Category Archives: Fuel and Hydration

Eating and drinking around exercise.

Sports Nutrition Terms Every New Exerciser Should Know

A plain-English glossary of sports nutrition terms, from electrolytes and carbohydrates to sweat rate and the recovery window, for new exercisers.

When a pre-workout snack helps, what makes a good one, and when training on an empty stomach is perfectly fine for early risers.

When water is enough after a workout, when sodium replacement genuinely matters, and how to judge electrolyte drinks without the marketing.

A step-by-step guide to sports drink labels: serving sizes, carbohydrate, sodium and sugar, so you can tell a workout drink from a soft drink.