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Chocolate Milk
Recovery Nutrients: The four-to-one ratio of carbohydrates to protein in this perennial childhood favorite is ideal for replenishing energy stores and repairing muscle. Get More: Blend with Greek...
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Promo Title: Chocoholics, Rejoice! Short Title: Chocolate Pre Title: Benefits of Chocolate Turns out chocolate can make you leaner, healthier, and faster. How sweet is that? —Matthew Kadey, MS,...
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The Organic Advantage
Nutrition decisions can mean the difference between suffering and soaring on the bike. While it’s easy enough to fuel your rides with whole grains, good fats, and protein, it’s sometimes hard to...
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Minty Cocoa
Not only will this drink warm you from the core after a long, chilly ride, it’s also a quadruple whammy of postride recovery. The mint flavor and aroma provide a mental pick-me-up, the dark chocolate...
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Fruity Bourbon Punch
Combining bourbon and muscadine wine, this fruit-filled drink invokes the South. That’s where the thick-skinned, dark-purple muscadine grapes are grown, and, in fact, it was the grape used to make the...
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Orange-Cranberry Gin and Tonic
For some of us, the training never stops, not even for the holidays, so here’s one drink that won’t sentence you to extra hours watching Law & Order reruns on your rollers. Not that that’s a bad...
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Blood Orange Margarita
Margaritas aren’t exactly Christmasy. But this brightly colored version, made with the juice of the ruby-fleshed blood orange, in season in the fall and winter, adds cheer to your table and vitamin C...
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Champagne Cocktail
The holidays can seem so complicated: Decorating the house inside and out, relatives and friends dropping by, gifts for everyone from Mom to the mail carrier. This drink, however, manages to be both...
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Oyster Shooters
Oysters are a nutritional mother lode, with zinc, iron, calcium, selenium, vitamins A and B12, and very few calories. If you’re at all nutritionally savvy, I don’t need to tell you that for cyclists,...
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Candy Cane
You can’t hang it on your tree, but this candy cane does offer the flavor of the holidays in a glass. It’s easy to put together, and if you feel like getting fancy, you can press the moistened rim of...
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Eggnog
This no-holds-barred drink will fill you up, and not incidentally, will also provide nutrients to let you recover from a hard ride. The eggs provide muscle-mending protein, plus help you feel full,...
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Mulled Wine
It sounds a little frou-frou, like something you’d have your butler keep on hand, but mulled wine is easy and warming, and very customizable: You don’t even have to worry about measuring. Bottle of...
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Promo Title: Holiday Cocktails for Cyclists Short Title: Cocktail Recipes Pre Title: Cocktail Recipes Hydrating only on your bike isn’t enough: You’ve got to keep drinking all day long. During the...
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5 Cycling Weight-Loss Successes
It’s tempting to think that losing weight through cycling is so elementary a concept it requires no elaboration. Ride more and make a few changes to diet and lifestyle, and you’re on your way,...
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2,696 Pounds, 36 Lives: How Did They Do It?
It’s tempting to think that losing weight through cycling is so elementary a concept it requires no elaboration. Ride more and make a few changes to diet and lifestyle, and you’re on your way, right?...
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Balancing Act: A Cyclist's Guide to Probiotics
What’s going on in your gut can mean the difference between a good day on the bike and a bad one. After all, your stomach is where you process all those nutrients that fuel your ride. When it’s out of...
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Personal Trainer: Weight-Loss Tips for Cyclists
Two-thirds of the adult population in the United States is classified as overweight or obese. As an active individual, you may not be inflating this statistic, but taking steps to achieve an ideal body...
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Biju’s Belgian Waffles
We asked Biju Thomas, chef for Team BMC and coauthor of Feed Zone Portables: A Cookbook of On-the-Go Food for Athletes, for the secret behind making a Liège waffle (the original Belgian waffle). His...
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A Classic, Improved
Belgium is synonymous with good beer, great cycling champions, and grueling one-day races. Another low-country legacy: the Liège waffle, which also happens to be a delicious way to get your preride...
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Chunky Cherry
Blend until slightly chunky: 1 cup pitted cherries, 2 tablespoons honey, 1/2 teaspoon almond extract, 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves. Warm mixture in microwave and serve immediately.Image Author:...
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