Powering Performance
Description
Every ride is powered by energy produced inside your muscles. When that energy supply keeps up with demand, you ride strong. When it falls behind, fatigue takes over and performance fades. The difference is not willpower. It is physiology.
This book explains in clear, practical language how the body produces energy during exercise, why fatigue happens, and how training, fueling, hydration, and pacing all work together to determine endurance performance.
Instead of complicated science or training plans, it gives you the simple physiological framework that explains why certain training methods work and why proper fueling matters.
When you understand how energy is produced, you can train more intelligently, fuel more effectively, pace more accurately, and ultimately ride stronger.
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Person
Dr Rafoth is a retired gastroenterologist (liver and digestive disease specialist).
Training for the Seattle to Portland Bicycle Ride (a double century) in the late 1980's triggered his interest in nutrition for long distance rides. Unable to find a book on nutrition for bicyclists, he researched the available medical and scientific literature and published "Bicycling Fuel: Nutrition for Bicycle Riders" in 1988.
In the early 1990s, he continued what had now become a hobby, his interest in nutrition and athletic performance, with a dedicated website: Cycling Performance Tips (https://www.cptips.com/).
At work, Dr. Rafoth was being referred increasing numbers of patients with the diagnosis of "fatty liver", a disease impacted to a great degree by the patient's diet. His work counseling these patients on diet strategies led to an invitation to write a column for a local newspaper. Topics included the impact of diet on health, new discoveries in nutrition science, and the risks of diet fads (keto, paleo, purging). Those columns, which can be found at A Doctor's Rx (https://adoctorsrx.blogspot.com/) led to the idea for a book based on the science of nutrition.
In his spare time, Dr. Rafoth continues to enjoy traveling, especially when it involves bicycling in some form, as well as keeping up with what's new new in the areas of nutrition and athletic performance.
