Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

Over the past few years, I have received a lot of emails from athletes expressing issues with reflux/heartburn, belching, nausea and bloating when exercising. Interestingly, for many of these athletes, issues are only (or most) noticeable on race day.  Although poor sport nutrition application is often at blame for the majority of fueling and hydration issues among endurance athletes, I started to notice patterns, similarities and trends among the athletes who reached out to me for nutrition assistance regarding their "reflux" issues.  Despite adjusting fueling and hydrating products, training the gut and following specific fueling/hydrating guidelines, athletes were still having issues - primarily on race day and often near the middle of a long distance race.  This got me thinking outside of the box. Is nutrition the primary concern or is it something else?  I started to think about what is different on race day (non-nutrition related) compared to training. Stress. ...