Fuelin Sessions

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Fuelin Sessions explores how to fuel for peak performance, faster recovery, and long-term health with science-backed insights you can trust. Episodes feature leading experts, athletes, and coaches sharing proven fueling strategies for triathletes, runners, cyclists, and all high-performing athletes. Co-hosted by Fuelin Co-Founder Scott Tindal, former Head of Performance Nutrition for the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL), America’s Cup, and Pro Rugby, and Jan Frodeno, Olympic gold medalist and 3X IRONMAN World Champion. Created by Fuelin, the app that simplifies eating for performance - fuelin.com

  1. 2d ago

    Can Exercise Undo a Bad Night’s Sleep? with Dr. Michael Ormsbee

    Can a workout make up for a bad night’s sleep? Scott Tindal sits down with Dr. Michael Ormsbee, who directs Florida State University’s Institute of Sports Sciences and Medicine (yes, the pre-sleep protein guy, and Scott has already asked him back for that one). Michael's lab pushed people’s bedtimes back until they lost 30% of their sleep, three nights running. In the sedentary group, cardiovascular function started to slip. The active group held. It doesn’t save everything. College women who lifted and binge drank kept their strength, but their glucose control still drifted. They also get into why journal reviewers won’t let Michael publish sleep stage data from wearables, and why his cross-country runners’ sleep a full week out still showed up on race day. STUDIES MENTIONED Body Composition Changes in Postmenopausal Women After Twelve Weeks of Either Resistance or Aerobic Training (conference abstract, study ongoing) Resistance Training and Binge Drinking: Impacts on Glucose Regulation in Young Adult Females Impact of Exercise on Sleep in Postmenopausal Women With Obesity: A Pilot Study Sleep Duration Correlates With Performance in Ultra-Endurance Triathlon Pre-Sleep Milk-Derived Proteins Do Not Impair Sleep or Recovery in Elite Female Athletes Effects of Pre-Sleep Macronutrient Ingestion on Nocturnal and Morning Glycemic Responses in Elite Female Athletes: A Pilot Study MORE FROM FUELIN ⁠Fuelin on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Try Fuelin Free for 14 Days

    Can Exercise Undo a Bad Night’s Sleep? with Dr. Michael Ormsbee

  2. Oct 15

    Jan Frodeno Fueled Berlin and UTMB the Opposite Way

    What does an Olympic champion eat when he’s racing for fun? Scott Tindal sits down with Jan Frodeno, Olympic gold medalist and three-time Ironman World Champion, to dig into how 100,000 lifetime kilometers and a bottle every 5K at 80 grams of carbs an hour added up to a 2:23 Berlin Marathon; why UTMB OCC a month earlier was the opposite story, with Jan running dry three times and drinking from a river; and how Scott is fueling the 80K Bondi to Manly Ultra he’s running for his son Jack. ⁠Fuelin on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Try Fuelin Free for 14 Days

  3. Oct 8

    Dehydration Probably Isn't Causing Your Cramps

    Why do some athletes cramp no matter how much salt they take? In this episode of Fuelin Sessions, Scott Tindal is joined by Dr Alan McCubbin, sports dietitian and Monash University researcher, to work through the three main theories of exercise-associated muscle cramps. They dig into why the dehydration and electrolyte story has struggled to hold up in the research and how Kevin Miller's multifactorial model treats each athlete's cramps as their own recipe. Alan's take: there's no single cause, so control as many of the controllables as you can. Martinez-Navarro I, Vicente-Mampel J, Lopez-Grueso R, Collado-Boira E, Recacha-Ponce P, Gomez-Sere T, Hernando C. Muscle Cramping in Ultra-Trail: Dehydration and Electrolyte Depletion versus Muscle Damage. J Strength Cond Res. 2026. DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000005440 Martinez-Navarro et al. Muscle Cramping in the Marathon: Dehydration and Electrolyte Depletion vs. Muscle Damage. J Strength Cond Res. 2020. DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000003713 Miller KC et al. An Evidence-Based Review of the Pathophysiology, Treatment, and Prevention of Exercise-Associated Muscle Cramps. J Athl Train. 2022. DOI: 10.4085/1062-6050-0696.20 Maughan RJ & Shirreffs SM. Muscle Cramping During Exercise: Causes, Solutions, and Questions Remaining. Sports Med. 2019. 49(Suppl 2):115-124. DOI: 10.1007/s40279-019-01162-1 ⁠Fuelin on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Try Fuelin Free for 14 Days

    Dehydration Probably Isn't Causing Your Cramps

  4. Oct 1

    Three Hamstrings Off the Bone to Winning Her Age Group

    What do you do when you tear all three hamstrings off the bone and the first people you ask tell you it's probably just a strain? Scott Tindal sits down with Jen Harrison, a Chicago triathlon coach and lifelong swimmer who fell on a trail in Tucson, got sent home from the ER on crutches, and waited four days for the diagnosis. They cover the two to three week surgery window she nearly missed, why she shifted toward protein before the operation, how she ate through six weeks of bedrest, isometrics starting three days post-op, and the motto she taped to her desk: fuel for the season you're in. ⁠Fuelin on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Try Fuelin Free for 14 Days

    Three Hamstrings Off the Bone to Winning Her Age Group

  5. Sep 24

    Carb Loading for Nice 70.3 Worlds with Megan Foley

    In this episode, Scott Tindal sits down with Megan Foley, sports dietitian and professional triathlete, straight off her Nice 70.3 World Championship start. They go through the numbers day by day, why her fat dropped to 30g and her protein to 80g, the case for drinking your carbs instead of eating them, and the decision to front load 200g on the climb because the descent gave her nowhere to fuel. Fuelin on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Try Fuelin Free for 14 Days

    Carb Loading for Nice 70.3 Worlds with Megan Foley

  6. Sep 17

    Does Taurine Work In The Heat with Alistair Brownlee

    Can a supplement get you sweating earlier and racing cooler? Scott Tindal sits down with Alistair Brownlee, the only male triathlete to win back-to-back Olympic gold, who now runs True Fuels and has just launched a taurine supplement called CoreCTRL. They discuss what the taurine and heat studies actually measured, whether a bigger sweat rate leaves you short on fluid, and how much of that effect a properly heat-acclimated athlete has already banked. Alistair also walks through the Kona blow-up that pushed him to strip race nutrition back. The effect of 8-day oral taurine supplementation on thermoregulation during low-intensity exercise at fixed heat production in hot conditions of incremental humidity CoreCTRL Alistair Brownlee InstagramFuelin on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Does Taurine Work In The Heat with Alistair Brownlee

  7. Sep 10

    Does Blending Fruit Destroy the Fiber?

    Does blending fruit destroy the fiber? Scott Tindal is joined by Fuelin dietitian Megan Foley to take apart two claims doing the rounds online, starting with the viral warning against blending bananas with blueberries, which came from a trial of eight men that never once put the two in the same glass. From there they get into the 2022 study where blended fruit produced a lower glucose response than whole fruit, what the unmeasured insulin response is probably doing underneath that, and the one real drawback of smoothies nobody posts about. Their answer on the fiber: it survives the blender. Impact of polyphenol oxidase on the bioavailability of flavan-3-ols in fruit smoothies: a controlled, single blinded, cross-over study Recent Research on the Health Benefits of Blueberries and Their Anthocyanins Postprandial Glycemic Response to Whole Fruit versus Blended Fruit in Healthy, Young Adults Perspective on the health value of carbohydrate-rich foods: glycemic index and load; fiber and whole grains Fuelin on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Does Blending Fruit Destroy the Fiber?

  8. Sep 3

    Do You Really Need 120g Of Carbs An Hour?

    90 grams of carbs an hour was never a physiological limit; it was a practical target. In this episode of Fuelin Sessions, Scott Tindal is joined by sports dietitian Alan McCubbin to unpack the narrative review questioning ultra-high carbohydrate intake in endurance athletes. They discuss where that number actually came from, why glucose oxidation tops out around 60–70g while fructose has no clear ceiling, what unpublished testing on the UTMB winners suggested about their real oxidation ceiling, why gut training improves tolerance but maybe not absorption, and why a rider under 150 watts needs 30–50g an hour, not 90. Effects of 120 g/h of Carbohydrates Intake during a Mountain Marathon on Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage in Elite Runners Carbohydrate improves exercise capacity but does not affect subcellular lipid droplet morphology, AMPK and p53 signalling in human skeletal muscle C-glucose-fructose labeling reveals comparable exogenous CHO oxidation during exercise when consuming 120 g/h in fluid, gel, jelly chew, or coingestion Fuelin on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Try Fuelin Free for 14 Days

    Do You Really Need 120g Of Carbs An Hour?
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Fuelin Sessions explores how to fuel for peak performance, faster recovery, and long-term health with science-backed insights you can trust. Episodes feature leading experts, athletes, and coaches sharing proven fueling strategies for triathletes, runners, cyclists, and all high-performing athletes. Co-hosted by Fuelin Co-Founder Scott Tindal, former Head of Performance Nutrition for the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL), America’s Cup, and Pro Rugby, and Jan Frodeno, Olympic gold medalist and 3X IRONMAN World Champion. Created by Fuelin, the app that simplifies eating for performance - fuelin.com

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  • Creator
    Fuelin
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    89
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Fuelin
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